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Walk through a Street View-powered corn maze 27 Aug 2013 | 03:03 pm
Earlier this year we showed you a collection of corn mazes that were viewable in Google Earth, but none of them allowed you to actually explore them via Street View. Thanks to Kyle Giesbrecht of Edmo...
50 years since the March on Washington 27 Aug 2013 | 02:43 pm
Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, so I thought it’d be a good opportunity to look at various MLK-related items we’ve seen in Google Earth ove...
Tracking the Rim Fire in Google Earth 26 Aug 2013 | 02:57 pm
The “Rim Fire” in the western United States has expanded greatly after hitting Yosemite National Park, spreading in a massive blaze of over 125,000 acres. InciWeb has some amazing maps of the fire, i...
Burning Man 2013 25 Aug 2013 | 03:37 pm
We’ve discussed the famous Burning Man event quite a few times in the past (2011, 2010, 2007, 2006) as Google often features aerial imagery from the event in Google Earth. In fact, by using the histo...
Exploring the moon in Google Earth 23 Aug 2013 | 02:46 pm
While hundreds millions of people have used Google Earth over the years, many aren’t aware of some of the great things it can do. One of those is the ability to explore our moon, which is an excellen...
Google adds a variety of animal parks and zoos to Street View 22 Aug 2013 | 02:57 pm
Google has just pushed out another major update to Street View, this time adding imagery from a variety of zoos and animal parks around the world. The list of updated areas includes: Australia Taron...
Viewing “ecological disintegration” using Google Earth 21 Aug 2013 | 02:40 pm
Last year we showed you the story of how California’s Department of Fish and Game was using Google Earth to track down marijuana fields to help avoid problems with local rivers. Kevin Franck at Earth...
Using Google Earth to understand geomorphology 20 Aug 2013 | 02:52 pm
Geomorphology is “the scientific study of landforms and the processes that shape them“, which seems to make Google Earth an excellent tool for that kind of work. Holly Dolliver recently wrote a paper...
The Wall – The World 19 Aug 2013 | 02:44 pm
Three years ago when the gulf oil spill was major news, Paul Rademacher created a unique tool to allow you to overlay the oil spill onto major cities to help get a better feel for the scale of it. Re...
The Kazakhstan Pentagram explained 16 Aug 2013 | 02:42 pm
There’s been a lot of buzz online for the past few weeks about a huge mysterious pentagram that was found etched into the ground in the northern part of Kazakhstan. Some had theorized that it may be ...
