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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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A few new 3D cities in Google Earth

November 14, 2008

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 [...]

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Amazing 3D recreation of Ancient Rome in Google Earth

November 12, 2008

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 [...]

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Google Earth has arrived on the iPhone

October 26, 2008

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 [...]

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A few more 3D cities in Google Earth

October 17, 2008

Just a few weeks after they added a bunch of new 3D cities to Google Earth, there appear to be a few more.  As of right now, according to the Google Earth Blog, the new cities are Los Angeles and San Diego.  As with the other cities, these two are absolutely stunning. There are likely [...]

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Google Earth imagery update

October 13, 2008

It appears that another Google Earth imagery update is underway, covering a variety of locations around the world.  The latest list, as provided by the Google Earth Blog, includes: Large portions of India Various places in the US, including parts of North Carolina and Utah Northern Mexico Romania — maybe the entire country? Parts of [...]

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Tons of new 3D buildings in Google Earth

October 1, 2008

As reported by the Google Earth Blog, Google Earth is now featuring thousands of new 3D buildings.  Some of the updated cities include:   Atlanta Chicago Jacksonville Miami Beach Nashville Philadelphia San Diego St. Petersburg There are also new buildings in a  variety of European countries.  There are probably others as well, so please let [...]

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Virtual Earth 6.2 released, with stunning clouds

September 25, 2008

Virtual Earth 6.2 has been released, with a whole host of new features.  Among them: New imagery —  ”Richer bird’s eye” and new 3D imagery, but I can’t find a list of what’s been updated. Weather integration — Real-time clouds (see more below) Localized maps — English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. Near-matching — Helps [...]

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Details on the Google Earth imagery update

September 9, 2008

We reported a few days ago about the imagery update for Google Earth, and now they’ve released details about exactly what has been updated: Americas: USA: Chicago, Houston, Tampa, Nassau County (NY), Westchester County (NY), Rockland County (NY), Putnam County (NY), Rensselaer County, Albany County (NY), Schenectady County (NY), SaratogaCounty (NY), Tompkins County (NY), Schuyler [...]

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Very cool 3D navigation product released

September 6, 2008

A cool looking 3D navigation program called Navi2Go from 3DVU has just been released.  It uses real world imagery and terrain and puts it in the palm of your hand as a GPS navigation device.  It’s got the look and feel of Google Earth, with the usefulness of a TomTom. Of course, the usefulness of [...]

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