Tag: google earth
Google Earth has 'secret' flight simulator. Can you fly it?
The trouble with stories like this is that I spend too much time playing with the application and not enough time writing it up. Google Earth has a "secret" flight simulator – or perhaps "fairly well hidden" is a…
Visit glorious Dresden via Google Earth
If you’ve ever wanted to see how the rebuilding work is coming along in poor old blitzed Dresden, now you can – thanks to a free Google Earth representation of the city.
From Space to Your Face: How Google Earth works
Mark Aubin, a software engineer at Google Earth, has written an interesting article on how it was inspired by a photo flipbook, how the whole system has captured people’s imagination, and explaining where the imagery comes from, why some parts of the globe are blurry whilst others are clear, and how often it’s updated.
