Back in 1968, Charles and Ray Eames created an amazing short film titled “Powers of Ten” to illustrate the size of our universe from the very largest to the very smallest scales. If you’ve ...

Last month we got an enquiry from GEB reader Mostafa, asking for a scientific explanation for a red lake that appears in Google Earth imagery in Cairo, Egypt. More recently, GEB reader David ...

If you’re ready to do some exploring, an amazing compilation of sites assembled by Andy at The Megalithic Portal will keep you busy for hours! He’s released a compilation of more than 25,000 ...

Ever since the news of Bin Laden’s death last night, people have been digging around in Google Earth trying to find the location of the mansion in which he was killed. [UPDATE 4: View some 3D ...

There are several different ways to automate animated historical imagery that we have explored in the past. The first, and easiest, is to use a Google Earth Tour that simply changes the date by a ...

Google has just unveiled Google Earth 6.0 beta, and it has some great new features in it! The three main features they’ve added are: • Tighter integration with Street View • 3D Trees ...

We were recently asked by a GEB reader whether or not it is possible to add labels to paths and polygons. The ability to add labels to paths was added to KML with version 6.1 of Google Earth ...

The release of Google Earth 7.1 brought with it a number of nice enhancements, including the new starry sky, but the best-looking might just be the new experimental “photorealistic atmosphere ...

Thanks to GEB reader ‘ehog’ for letting us know that Győr, Hungary got the new 3D mesh recently. Google first announced their method of generating 3D via stereophotogrammetry from aerial ...

In the early days of Google Earth the US White House and Capitol Building were blurred in Google Earth. But in 2005 this censorship was stopped, and today, there is high quality satellite imagery ...

The “ruler” tool in Google Earth has always been useful, and it has seen a number of improvements over the years. To get started with it, simply go to [Tools] –> [Ruler] in Google Earth and ...

This is a question that we get asked a lot, so hopefully this post will help clear things up. The short answer is that Google usually updates imagery twice a month, typically around the 6th and ...