Stories tagged "googleearth"

Improved satellite images allow for a much better understanding of the orientation and geographic placement of an environment. Or put another way, better data + maps = crazy delicious.

New satellite images that will eventually show up in Google Earth and Google Maps are now arriving from the Google-sponsored GeoEye-1 satellite that launched a month ago. GeoEye has just released the stunning image below as a preview of what’s to come..

Last week it was a plan to save the world. This week, Google is helping to make people realize why the world needs saving.

One rumor making its way around the Web right now is that Google blurred out images of Wasilla after Palin was named McCain’s running mate. If you look up Wasilla in Google Earth you’ll see that Google’s images of the Anchorage suburb are indeed blu

The intelligence community is learning to value "open-source" information.

The GeoEye-1 satellite is on a mission from Google. The search titan has the exclusive rights among online mapping sites to the GeoEye-1 images, which it will use in its Google Earth and Google Maps offerings. It even got its logo emblazoned on the rocket

Maps from centuries past, paths of satellites whizzing by, global warming brought to life: User-created Google Earth mashups present a dizzying array of information in a new and imaginative graphical form.

GeoEye Inc on Thursday said it will provide imagery from its new $502 million high-resolution GeoEye-1 satellite to Google Earth and Google Maps after the spacecraft is launched on September 4.

A Google Earth layer of marine animals gone extinct, with background information, links and photos. The Steller's Sea Cow, Great Auk, Caribbean Monk Seal, Japanese Sea Lion, Labrador Duck, Tasman Booby, Yangtze River Dolphin, Pallas's Cormorant and more.

Google has been increasingly helpful to U.S. and foreign intelligence services in taking down images from its Google Earth program when concerns arise about the possibility that terrorists could make use of the pictures for planning attacks.