This has been quite a week for Google, especially with the announcement of Google Wave at the Google I/O Conference. Not to be ignored, Google Earth has been quietly rolling out some spectacular features, not to mention business listings. Just yesterday, Google Earth added 3D tours of buildings, bridges, baseball stadiums and more. So now [...]
A Google Earth engineer has launched an extraordinary ‘map of the fallen’ in honor of thousands of brave servicemen and women who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. A feature developed that allows you to see the each of the 5,700 coalition troops represented by a yellow pin connecting their home town to the spot [...]
Talk about a long commute. Anyone who works in space or on a space station has arguably the record for the longest commute to a job. If you are lucky enough to make it into NASA’s space program, Google Earth and Beyond, you will need to be in tip top condition for orbit. Well a [...]
Google has developed a new tool that lets people see how much electricity they’re consuming. This of course will detail much more than your monthly electricity bill. It’s knowledge that they hope will incite many people to cut back on their power use, according to Forbes. A team of about 30 people from Google and [...]
The recent Mumbai terrorists attacks show web maps such as Google Earth can be a tool for terrorists. The information super highway appears to be letting some get away with highway robbery. With free software available to any person’s disposal online, tools such as Google Earth merge information from a variety of sources with private-sector [...]
