It was recently announced that Michael Jones, one of the original founders of Google Earth, has left Google and is now CEO of a cool new VR glasses maker called Wearality. These glasses are unlik...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2015/04/bringing-google-earth-to-vr.html
Since the early days of Google Earth, people have looked for ways to use it to enhance real estate searches and information. You can go all the way back to 2005 to see an example that Frank poste...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2014/08/using-google-earth-imagery-real-estate-guides.html
In British Columbia there is a proposal to build a new dam at “Site C” to help generate affordable clean energy to the region. It sounds like a wonderful idea, but with any project of this si...
Frank Taylor here, still the publisher for Google Earth Blog. Five years ago I was deep in preparation for a 5+ year sailing expedition around the world, documenting the trip using Google Earth ...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2014/08/google-earth-blog-writer-needed.html
DigitalGlobe is one of the leading providers of satellite imagery for Google Earth, and now they’re teaming up with the World Resources Institute to track fires across southeast Asia via their ...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2014/07/digitalglobe-helping-track-forest-fires.html
Three years ago we showed you the very useful visualization that the city of Douglasville, Georgia created to show how new road construction would be laid out. It was a great use of Google Earth ...
Part of the business model of Google Earth has always been that free access to seeing all of the imagery helped raise the visibility of the satellite and aerial photography businesses. But, if ...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2014/07/google-begins-selling-imagery.html
We’ve talked about crime on here quite a lot over the years, many of which we discussed in this post last year. Scott Dickson at Bair Analytics recently wrote a post that talks about some of th...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2014/07/using-google-earth-crime-analysis.html
Since the introduction of Google Earth nearly a decade ago, it has been a great tool for real estate agents. One of the earliest examples was when Trulia added Google Earth support for real estat...
Google has just announced that they’ve purchased Skybox Imaging for $500 million, in an effort to help keep imagery updated more rapidly, improve global internet access, and assist in disaster ...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2014/06/google-acquires-skybox-imaging-500-million.html