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.

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 ...

It is often useful to be able to get Google Earth placemarks into Excel (or other spreadsheet application or even a database). One way to do this is to save your placemarks as a .KML file (do not ...

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.

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 ...

Last week we talked about a recent update to the Google Earth ocean floor data.As we mentioned in that post, the ocean floor data is a combination of data obtained from satellites and published by ...

A GEB reader recently asked us how to import geotagged photos into Google Earth. We are not looking at geotagging/geolocating which is the process of attaching a latitude and longitude to a photo.