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3DWH Burj Khalifa, formerly known as Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration, is a skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and the tallest man-made structure ever built, at 828 m.
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 ...
The Google Earth Flight Simulator is one of those features that many people overlook. Here are some tips to make the most of it. With the the release of Google Earth 4.2 back in 2007, Google added ...
New York 3D in New GE. Google has released a new version of Google Earth today that has been re-designed for a new generation of 3D mapping applications.
Thank you to GEB reader Adino for letting us know that Street View has recently come to Guatemala. Street View coverage, Guatemala. View in Google Maps.
Scrolling down the page and you see there’s a world to explore with a new feature called Voyager. And there’s a new Google Earth for Android version as well. Back at the top, there is a button ...
About Frank Taylor. Frank Taylor started the Google Earth Blog in July, 2005 shortly after Google Earth was first released. He has worked with 3D computer graphics and VR for many years and was ...
In yesterday’s post we mentioned that Google Earth’s measurements did not match ours, which used the Haversine formula.So we decided to investigate a bit more. The Haversine formula assumes ...
Yesterday we showed you how to view the voyage of the Titanic in Google Earth and today we’re going to look at how to view a 3D model of the underwater wreckage. When Google Earth 5 was released ...
A GEB reader recently asked us how to import geotagged photos into Google Earth. We are not looking at geotagging/geolocating which is the process of attaching a latitude and longitude to a photo.
If it is correct that blurring cannot be removed, it would surely encourage ‘malicious’ requests for blurring, and hence it would make it even more necessary for Google to verify requests.
An often overlooked feature of Google Earth, elevation profiles were first introduced in version 5.2.The feature is easy to use, all you need is a path selected in your ‘My Places’ then go to ...