As mentioned yesterday, I wanted to create a video demonstrating why I think Globe Glider is a super mapping mashup. Globe Glider in its basic form lets you get a strong sense of geospatial context by ...

Google Earth is a computer program that provides a 3D view of the world. It uses satellites and aerial imagery to create a virtual globe that can be explored from a computer. It comprises detailed 3D ...

The moon has been added to Google Earth. Mountain View, Calif.-based Google announced Monday that it is launching a new 3D atlas of the moon for the 5.0 version of its free "virtual globe" software.

The world is no longer flat. At least in Tucson. Through the all-seeing eyes of Google. The tech giant has smiled upon the Old Pueblo, making Tucson one of the first cities to appear in 3D via the ...

Johnson’s Reef on the northwest shore of St. John Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands forms colorful peaks in this lidar image recorded by NASA’s Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) in ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...