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.
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…
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!
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 briefly, then locked up the PC hard.
All in all, I’m quite pleased with how these programs are working with Windows 7. I had intended to say “this works, that doesn’t, etc”, but everything works (for the most part). I am very impressed with Windows 7 speed-wise, too. It’s had a few hiccups (video card didn’t want to play nice), but these apps are FLYING on this old machine.
By the time it goes gold, I expect big things out of it.
As reported by the Google Earth Blog, there are a few new 3D cities in Google Earth — Pittsburgh, PA and Seattle, WA. There may be others, but those are the two that have been found so far.
I’ll keep poking around see if any other cities have fresh 3D imagery in them. Here’s a shot from Pittsburgh, which looks great.
Google is about to unveil a new layer for Google Earth that shows over 5700 3D buildings from the city of Rome, circa 320 AD. This is based at least in part from the model of the city we showed you last year from the University of Virginia. If nothing else, they’re both based off the the “Plastico di Roma Antica”, a highly detailed plaster version of Rome that was built in the 1970’s.
The layer is not yet available, but will be found under “Gallery –> Ancient Rome 3D” when it’s released. You can find much more info about this layer at the Google Earth Blog, the Official Google Blog, Google’s new Ancient Rome page, or the video below.
Somewhat out of the blue, though not totally unexpected after we saw EarthScape, Google Earth has been released for the iPhone!
It’s still being rolled out (Australia and Japan can get it now), and it’s not available for my area yet. I’ll post more details once I get it.
A little more info can be found on the Google Earth Blog, or you can check out the screenshots below.
