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New Google Earth imagery

February 28, 2009

As reported by Google Earth Blog, some new imagery seems to have arrived in Google Earth.  Some of the updated areas include portions of: Scotland China Africa A few US states South Korea Mongolia Iceland You can get more details at GEB, and we’ll be updating this post with more locations as they become known.

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Finally! The Google Earth Plug-in now works in Google Chrome

February 20, 2009

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 [...]

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Google Earth 5.0 is released — WOW

February 3, 2009

This is simply one of the biggest releases ever for Google Earth.  Some of the goodies: Historical Imagery: You can now activate a slider.  I’ve seen a lot of imagery from the early 90′s, and there’s plenty from even before then.  I’ve been very impressed with the quality of the older imagery.  It’s mostly black [...]

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Some new 3D goodness in Google Earth

January 30, 2009

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 [...]

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Big update to Google Earth coming in 8 days?

January 25, 2009

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 [...]

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Satellite image of the inauguration crowds today

January 21, 2009

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 — [...]

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New imagery in Washington, DC – Just in time for the Inauguration

January 18, 2009

мебелиTwo days before Tuesday’s Inauguration of Barack Obama, Google has updated the imagery in the Washington, DC area.  According to the Google Earth Blog, the imagery for the White House and Capitol building are still from 2002, but much of the imagery in the area is dated 2008. In addition, some of the censorship has [...]

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New Ocean Imagery in Google Earth

January 17, 2009

Google has just pushed some new imagery to Google Earth that shows much higher quality data for all of the oceans of the world.  The data sadly isn’t 3D yet, but it’s certainly much better.  It makes viewing the globe from high altitudes look much better.  It’s not as in-depth as the rumored “Google Ocean” [...]

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Digital Earth products with Windows 7

January 10, 2009

I downloaded Windows 7 on my laptop tonight (dual boot with XP) and started testing the various digital earth products.  So far, so good! Google Earth went without a hitch.  It runs very well, too! The Google Earth plug-in worked perfectly as well. Google Maps worked, as did StreetView. Virtual Earth installed flawlessly and worked [...]

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Google Earth imagery update!

December 14, 2008

We haven’t heard anything official, but Google Earth has just received an imagery update. Some places with updates include: New York, US (Manhattan in particular, but likely more widespread) Dubai Christchurch, New Zealand Cape Town, South Africa Bucharest, Romania Honolulu, Hawaii, US If you find others, please let us know and we’ll add to the [...]

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