Frank's Tahina Expedition is now in the Ocean Layer of Google Ea...
2010-01-06 13:24:03
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Frank Taylor has dreamed (and planned) for many years to sail around the world and share it with people by using Google Earth and other tools. He's trying to visit many places he's seen in Google Earth in perso...
Links: Burj Dubai, Historical Imagery Updates, Updated EveryTrai...
2010-01-05 13:28:02
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Burj Dubai: The tallest building in the world, the Burj Dubai Khalifa (Update: renamed after opening), opened to the public yesterday. At over 800 meters tall, it is by far the tallest building on the planet. Y...
Deforestation of the Amazon is uncovering Geoglyphs
2010-01-04 13:50:35
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700 years ago, for reasons that are still unknown, ancient people sculpted hundreds of geoglyphs in the Amazon. One of the most famous geoglyphs is the Nazca Lines in Peru. Recently, a combination of deforestat...
Santa Tracker was amazingly popular
2009-12-31 13:25:25
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In the past, we've told you about the popularity of the Santa Tracker on GEB. This year, NORAD has released the actual data from the noradsanta.org site and the numbers are amazing!
To go with the 1200 call ce...
The year 2009 in Google Earth
2009-12-30 12:35:05
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We've already showed you the 10 most popular stories on our site for 2009, but we thought it'd be fun to look back through the year at the newsworthy stories for each month.
It's been quite a year for Google E...
The most unusual buildings in the world
2009-12-29 13:24:25
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Over the past few years, Village of Joy has written a handful of different articles that showcase "50 strange buildings of the world". Each time, they find 50 more buildings to highlight, all of which have very...
Barranco 3D Project
2009-12-28 13:23:50
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Barranco, a town located south of Lima and accessed by train or tram, is full of old houses, restaurants, pubs and art galleries. GEB reader 'Auquicu' took more than 800 photos and spent five months modeling th...
The Santa tracker 2009 is now live!
2009-12-24 12:08:09
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It's Christmas Eve! Once again, NORAD and Google have teamed up to provide the Santa tracker, to watch the big man as he flies around the world.
The Santa Tracker is vastly improved this year. Rather than down...
Happy Holidays from Google Earth Blog
2009-12-23 13:14:20
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With Christmas just a few days away, we thought we'd share our annual holiday greeting card. You can download the KML file to view it yourself, or check it out via the Google Earth Plug-in.
Santa's NORAD track...
More cities get lifelike facades: Portland, Austin, Chicago and ...
2009-12-22 16:16:54
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Last month, Google unveiled detailed facades for five cities in California (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Franciso, Berkeley and Stockton). By mapping StreetView imagery onto the 3D models, they were able to give...