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 ...

We’ve seen a variety of great vehicle simulators over the years, from Ships to Aircraft to the A-Team van. A new driving simulator was recently released by Katsuomi Kobayashi and it’s quite ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you create placemarks in Google Earth you can change the icon of the placemark by going to the placemark properties and clicking the icon button found just to the right of the placemark name ...

We have in the past shown you how to turn Google Earth into various other planets including Saturn, Jupiter and Mars. Several of the models come from the Barnabu blog by James Stafford, who also ...

We were recently asked by a GEB reader whether or not it is possible to add labels to paths and polygons. The ability to add labels to paths was added to KML with version 6.1 of Google Earth ...

Google has released a new version of Google Earth today that has been re-designed for a new generation of 3D mapping applications. This first release is not a program you have to download and ...

While exploring Google Earth’s 3D imagery, you will probably have noticed that even in the busiest cities, people are largely absent. This is because of the way the 3D imagery is captured. Based ...

With the 10 year anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks coming up in a few days, we thought we’d look at some ways to use Google Earth to remember those lost in the attacks along with ...

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 ...