Did you know Google Earth has a free built in flight simulator and you can fly all over the world? It has been there since 2007, and in the meantime computers have gotten way faster and the data ...
Google Earth was first released on June 28, 2005. Now, in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of Google Earth’s release, we would like to share just a few examples of the best user applications...
After our post on drones, GEB reader Satyen Sarhad (creator of Geoception that we looked at back in 2012), pointed us to a couple of Ground Control Station systems for drones that make excellent ...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2014/09/happykillmores-ground-control-station.html
Over the years we’ve seen some great files come from Steven Ho, such as his panorama from the top of Mount Everest, his tribute to Steve Jobs and his Trip View Bowl visualization. He’s back w...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2014/09/flying-around-blue-magpie-tea-taiwan.html
Back in 2007 we took a look at the concept of capturing aerial imagery from drones. Since then a lot of progress has been made in drone and camera technology. Now it is no longer the technology t...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2014/09/aerial-imagery-drones.html
Last week, Malaysia Airlines flight 17 was shot down over Ukraine by a surface-to-air missile, killing all 298 people on board. While blame is still being passed around for the crash, there are s...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2014/07/tracking-flight-mh17-google-earth.html
Alan Parkinson has pointed us to a fun resource from the folks at Geography All The Way — a challenge that takes you back to 1937 as a pilot for Imperial Airlines. The year is 1937 and you work...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2014/06/fun-geography-challenges-google-earth.html
A while back we looked at some of the scariest airports in the Caribbean, but Lauren O’Neil has taken it further by finding some of the best-looking airports in the world in Google Earth. You c...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2014/05/airport-runways-beautiful-google-earth.html
While it will be a long time before we see a live version of Google Earth, as Frank recently explained, there are some places where small scale real-time imagery is starting to come out. The most...
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 adde...
https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2014/04/using-google-earth-flight-simulator.html