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Back in March of this year, Google made some substantial changes to the "Places of Interest" layer. While it certainly had some nice new features, the majority of you weren't very happy with the changes. A few days later, Google responded...
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A handful of nice updates have just come out for Building Maker . The first is something that should help make your buildings look much better; you can use Street View imagery to texture the sides of your buildings . When SketchUp 7.1 was released it...
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Google Earth has just rolled out some fresh imagery for us! Thanks to GEB reader 'ChrisK' for being the first to let us know about it. As is almost always the case, you can use Google Maps to determine for sure whether or not a specific area is...
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Roughly seven months after it was first introduced , Google Earth for Android has just received a major update to version 1.1. The big update in this version is underwater bathymetry! This feature was first introduced on the desktop in Google Earth 5...
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Google has just pushed out version 5.2.1.1547, replacing version 5.2.1.1329 for most people. The "check for updates" feature doesn't seem to be finding it yet, but if you download Earth from their servers ( earth.google.com ), you'll...
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Called "The ultimate geo mashup platform", Google Earth Enterprise 4.0 has been released . You may be familiar with Google Earth Enterprise, as it has been used for projects such as Louisiana Earth . Among the new features in GEE 4.0 is one...
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Google Earth has just rolled out some fresh imagery for us! Thanks to GEB reader 'Cristobal' for being the first to let us know about it. As is almost always the case, you can use Google Maps to determine for sure whether or not a specific area...
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It appears that another Google Earth imagery update is underway -- thanks to GEB readers 'Eero' and 'cristi' for being the first to let us know about it. As is often the case, you can use Google Maps to determine for sure whether or not...
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One thing that I've seen a lot of emails about over the years is border issues; borders that aren't quite accurate enough, or (most often) borders that are in political dispute. People didn't like that Google was seeminly "taking sides"...
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Google Earth was released by Google in June of 2005. It was based on a product Google acquired when it bought the company called Keyhole in the fall of 2004. At the time GE was released, I was looking to learn about blogging and was searching for a topic...
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It's only been 10 days since the last imagery update, and the next one appears to be upon us! Thanks to GEB reader 'Andreas' for being the first to let us know about it. As is often the case, you can use Google Maps to determine for sure whether...
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It's been a few weeks since the last update , and now Google has just started pushing out their latest imagery update. Thanks to GEB reader 'Alsay' for being the first to let us know about it! As is often the case, you can use Google Maps...
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Google has just released the June issue of the Sightseer newsletter, with all of kinds of great information inside. If you don't get this great newsletter emailed to you every month, we'll give you a quick peek at what you'll find inside....
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Hot on the heels of the release of Google Earth 5.2 and Google Earth 3.0 for iPhone , Google has just pushed out another imagery update. Thanks to GEB reader 'Chris' for letting us know! As is often the case, you can use Google Maps to determine...
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Google Earth's iPhone application has just been updated to version 3.0. The changes in the iPhone version are fairly minor (road layers finally available), but the big news is a native version for the iPad. Rather than having to stretch the iPhone...