This is a post I have been reluctant to write. I started this blog 12 years ago to bring news and share enthusiasm about one of the best software applications, and datasets, I have ever seen.

About Timothy Whitehead. Timothy has been using Google Earth since 2004 when it was still called Keyhole before it was renamed Google Earth in 2005 and has been a huge fan ever since.

I hope that embedding thing is used sparingly. Like the Google Earth Web version in general, It’s an obscene resource hog, Just loading this page caused Chrome to grab an extra 600MB of working ...

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 ...

Scrolling down the page and you see there’s a world to explore with a new feature called Voyager. And there’s a new Google Earth for Android version as well. Back at the top, there is a button ...

On March 7th, 2017, Arianespace, on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched the new earth imaging satellite Sentinel-2B.

With Christmas this weekend and Santa being tracked around the world, but the exact location of his base near the North Pole remaining secret, it is a good time to talk about why the poles are not ...

Have a look at this file.I used a grid of 200×200 and contours every 10 m. It is always worth using multiple contours as it doesn’t take longer and you can turn off the ones you don’t want.

Google Earth has just had a makeover. Google has refreshed the global mosaic imagery that you see when zoomed out with newer, better quality imagery.

Landsat 8 imagery vs Sentinel 2A imagery. Images courtesy of USGS/NASA Landsat and Copernicus Sentinel data 2016. To see the images in Google Earth download this KML file.

Recently there have been a number of stories, such as this one, about a strange looking structure that can be seen in the Egyptian desert with Google Earth.We thought it was interesting enough to ...

Before and after: collapsed apartment block in Tainan, Taiwan. On 9 February 2016 there was a head on collision between two trains near the town of Bad Aibling, Germany.