Learning how to create a 3D globe with the world map in Illustrator is quite easy to do and remember. This project can also be the start of another project on how to make this 3D globe revolve. For ...

Illustrator and Photoshop may have their differences, but they work well together. They both have their weak points and strengths. Creating the 3D revolving globe with Illustrator and Photoshop will ...

Google has been on a roll with new features for its Maps service this week, from matching users to restaurants that they might like to adding battery percentage to location sharing. Rather than settle ...

If you open Google Maps on your computer (go ahead, I’ll wait), you’ll likely see the town or city you live in, or maybe the last place you looked up. Now, zoom out. No, more than that. Keep going.

No 3D glasses necessary for the cool, new globe view. For those who enjoy a good sweep of the Earth with Google Maps every now and again, something about our planet’s surface will look very different ...

When the first true Lego sets arrived decades ago they were targeted at kids, but as those kids grew into adults, they never stopped loving the building bricks. As a result, adult fans of Lego (or ...

What if you took something like Google Earth, then ramped it up and installed it as an app you can use on planes — giving passengers a virtual view from the cockpit and side windows, as well as ...

CARROT Weather, the award-winning app known for its funny and sarcastic weather information, has received a major update that adds new map styles, individual radar stations, and more. Rebuilt from the ...

Marrian Zhou is a Beijing-born Californian living in New York City. She joined CNET as a staff reporter upon graduation from Columbia Journalism School. When Marrian is not reporting, she is probably ...

Before the advent of GPS, especially at sea, navigation meant finding your position by looking up at the stars. Today, when the Global Positioning System isn’t working—or gets jammed by electronic ...