Every year, Google teams up with the North American Aerospace defence Command to track a bearded man flying a sleigh across the globe. This year, you can track the journey via Google Map, Google Earth, from your phone, and more. More »
Windows/Mac/Linux: The just-released Google Earth 6 adds an entirely new — and surprisingly interesting — dimension to Google’s virtual globe application: 3D trees. Well, trees and a much-improved street view. More »
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Google Earth for Android updates with pinch to zoom, rotate, 3D topography and a fancy new way to canvas the ocean floor (catching up with last year’s desktop update. More »
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Google Earth has been an outdoorsperson’s dream, ever since they added hiking, running and biking trails (among others). The most recent update focuses on enhancing these features by adding graphs and statistics for elevation, slope and speed to athletic trails More »
Android: Google’s globetrotting 3D mapping application Google Earth has been around for iPhone users for over a year, and today the killer mapping app makes its way to Android devices. More »
It already features the lunar surface and a 3D version of Melbourne, and now Google Earth has added another feature to chew up chunks of your weekend: World War -II era overlays of European cities, letting you see how the layout of cities has been dramatically changed by war. [Official Google Australia Blog]
One of the appealing features of Google Earth is the ability to add realistic 3D renderings of locations. We’ve already seen that for New York and large swathes of ocean; continuing that seemingly random approach, Melbourne has now got the 3D treatment. More »
