Google Earth
User Preferences: Tech Q&A With Google Earth Artist Peter Root
Each week we chat about the tools of the trade with one outstanding creative to find out exactly how they do what they do.
Even in 3D, Google's New Map is Underwhelming
They look like cut-scenes from the next installment of Grand Theft Auto. It’s not. This is Google Earth, reimagined in glorious real-time 3D, available soon on your mobile phone. It’s Google at its finest, another earnest step in the company’s quest to...
Government Censorship Yields Accidental Artwork In Dutch Landscapes
The Netherlands’ authorities don’t want you looking at their classified landscapes.
The Pleasure of Looking Down on Earth
For a short moment last November, the web was totally, complete obsessed with one unlikely thing: a series of curiously anonymous satellite images. Jesus Diaz, over at Gizmodo, broke the story last November, asking, ""Why Is China Building These...
Courtesy Of Google Earth, the World's Bridges On Acid
Turns out one of the biggest problems with life on Google's Earth is bridges. The 3D rendering software just doesn't get it, treating them instead as flat rubber bands that distort and bend or just disappear when roadway meets quick elevation change. A...
Google Earth and the Bahraini Uprising
At this minute, the entire industrialized world is having a collective panic attack over the protests and brutal crackdowns now underway in the tiny nation of Bahrain. Sure, it might be the dawn of an oppressed people--democracy, civil rights, rule of...