Google has announced the release of SketchUp 7. SketchUp is software you can use to build 3D models for any number of project types, including Google Earth projects. In version 7, Google has added a whole slew of new features.
Google Earth is doing some amazing things as highlighted with their announcement the other day of the Ancient Rome layer (shown in the video below).
Google has teamed up with Past Perfect Productions, UCLA, and the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia to bring Ancient Rome back to life with a new Google Earth layer.
Don't be surprised if a lot of iPhone users start to demonstrate a surprisingly good grasp of geography. Google Earth for iPhone (and iPod touch) has been introduced, making it easier than ever for them to explore cities and research spaces.
The Los Angeles Times reports German researchers, through the help of Google Earth, have discovered that 2 out of 3 cows point North.
If the watchful eye of Google has been creeping you out with Street View, you're going to love this. Their satellite imagery is about to get a big boost in resolution courtesy of GeoEye.
Starting one week from now, all eyes will be on Beijing. Yet if you can't wait for coverage to become inescapable - or want a different view than the ones most reporters can provide - Google Maps and Google Earth have been updated with fresh pictures of China.
Google's well-known specialties are search and advertising, and perhaps another couple products (YouTube, Blogger) also get more attention. Google Earth is still one of the company's main attractions, though, and now a software engineer who's been attached to the project for five and a half years is quitting.
Here's a bit of news that belongs in some strange borderland between cutting-edge technology and the plot of a "Corner Gas" episode: seven local governments have worked with Google to publish 3D models of their cities.
If panoramic images are important to you, stick with Street View. If timeliness and overall geographic coverage take precedence, the new Webcams.travel layer in Google Earth is definitely worth a look.
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