According to the Google Earth Blog, there has been another imagery update for Google Earth. The full list of updated areas is still coming in, but so far they’ve found updates in Scotland, Brazel, USA, Englad, Norway and Spain.
Keep an eye on the GEB post for more updates.
I was wondering if Google would be adding their “ocean” features to other bodies of water, and it turns out they are! You can now dive into the five Great Lakes just as you can with the oceans.
From the LatLong Blog:
Users will be able to explore features such as the canyons and shoals in eastern Lake Superior, the Lake Michigan mid-lake reef complex, and the old river channel, now underwater, that once connected Lakes Michigan and Huron at the Straits of Mackinac.
In addition, the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory has created a narrated Google Earth tour which you can download here (KML) or view directly in your browser.
Google has just pushed out an imagery update, though the extent of it is still unknown. According to Google Earth Blog, the following areas have been updated:
Frank will be posting more updates as they’re available, so keep an eye on his post. If you see any other updated areas, leave us a comment and we’ll add it to the list.
Sorry for being so quiet lately. I’ve got a few big projects going on and I’ve been away from the Google Earth scene for a few days. However, things have been very active and there’s quite a lot to see!
More Historical Imagery — Google has added more historical imagery to Google Earth. This is an awesome new feature in Google Earth 5.0, and it’s great that they’re continuing to add more data to it.
A great lesson about Google Earth imagery — Like Frank, I often talk to people that assume Google Earth imagery is real-time, or at least close to it. As you probably know, that’s far from accurate. It takes quite a lot of work to get imagery into Google Earth, and this article does a great job of explaining it.
StreetView is coming to Ireland — According to Silicon Republic (via StreetViewFun), Google StreetView is coming to Ireland.
Big updates to Google Mars — Oddly enough, we can’t have live imagery here on earth but now we have it on Mars!
Google Announces Bridge Modeling Competition — This will only serve to make the 3D views in Google Earth even better.
Lots of good stuff. Go check out those articles, then fire up your copy of Google Earth and dive in!
As reported by Google Earth Blog, some new imagery seems to have arrived in Google Earth. Some of the updated areas include portions of:
You can get more details at GEB, and we’ll be updating this post with more locations as they become known.
It was over five months ago that support for Chrome was “coming soon”, and it’s finally here — the Google Earth plug-in now works in Google Chrome.
You likely need the latest version of Chrome for it to work. To update, just click the wrench icon and choose “About Google Chrome”. The bottom line of that box will tell you if you’re updated or not. It updates automatically, so you’re likely in good shape.
So far, so good. It’s running well. Now I have one less reason to use Firefox or IE…
This is simply one of the biggest releases ever for Google Earth. Some of the goodies:
Enough talk. If you haven’t seen GE 5.0 yet, then you just need to go get it and play!
A couple of interesting 3D updates in the past few days.
First we have the Vancouver update. They added 1400 textured 3D buildings to the city and it looks great. According to the Google Earth Blog, they also expanded 3D coverage in New York City, Portland and Seattle.
Another post from the Google Earth Blog involves the first 3D cruise ship — Carnival’s “Fascination”.
I wouldn’t think this was especially noteworthy, but it’s the ship I was on for my honeymoon (and the only cruise I’ve taken), so I find it pretty cool that they chose that ship.
According to a few sources, Google is releasing a new version of Google Earth at the California Academy of Sciences on February 2nd. Because the location of the event happens to be an aquarium, planetarium and natural history museum, that’s leading many to think that we may finally see the long-rumored “Google Ocean”.
It would be somewhat odd timing for that, since they just released the new ocean imagery a week ago, but it sure makes sense. However, it also leads to another question — what other new features might we see? New imagery? More 3D buildings? Other features?
We’ll find out soon!
GeoEye made quick work of posting an image from Barack Obama’s Inauguration today. As promised, they snapped a photo at 11:19am and had it posted by this afternoon. The photo does a great job of capturing the mass of people that were in Washington. It was very interesting to see the the crowds formed — presumably to get in front of the billboard-sized screens that were set-up along the mall.
If you’d like to see it for yourself, Google has created a special overlay that includes the file.
I’m a bit disappointed there weren’t any easter eggs in there — it was well known that the photo would be taken at 11:19, and the festivities hadn’t really begun at that point. Still, given the relatively low quality of the photo it would have taken some serious work to make something that would have been visible. Plus, you never know when a plan like that can go bad.
