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Google Earth version 4.3 coming today

A new version of Google Earth is due out sometime later today.  It will include a revamped navigation system, new 3D building engine, a layer for StreetView and much more.  In addition, the Mac version...

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News round-up for Google Earth 4.3

As you certainly know by now, Google Earth version 4.3 has been released.  It has a bunch of great new features and already has generated a lot of reviews, screenshots and videos.  Here are some of the...

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New Google Earth Plug-in released, with access to GEH files

Earlier today, Google released a plug-in that allows you to view Google Earth content right in your browser!  It’s quite slick, though it has a few drawbacks — Windows-only, and no support for Firefox...

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Major StreetView update today

Google has just released a TON of new imagery for StreetView — 37 new areas, 10 new parks and recreation areas, and expanded coverage in 15 cities.  It’s quite staggering. If you find something cool in...

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Google Earth plug-in updated to support Firefox 3

As reported by the Digital Earth Blog and Google Earth Blog, the Google Earth plug-in now works in Firefox 3!  This was a silent update, as you don’t even need to update your plug-in — it simply works....

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Some big updates to Google Earth

It appears there are some major imagery updates that have just been released for Google Earth.  Google Earth Blog has a growing list, which includes locations from all over the world (US, Switzerland,...

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France gets a lot more StreetView imagery

As reported by Google Maps Mania and the Digital Earth Blog, Google Maps StreetView has just gotten a lot more imagery in France.  In particular, they now have: Lille Lyon Marseille Nice Paris Toulouse...

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Google Earth comes to the iPhone and StreetView goes to Spain

A couple of cool new things today: Google Earth is now available as a free app for the iPhone.  Not only is it free, but it’s good!  It looks very similar to the normal Google Earth program, includes...

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New 3D cities: some new, some ancient

Google has brought out a handful of new 3D cities in the past few days.  Today saw the release of Seattle and Pittsburgh, both of which now have hundreds of full-color buildings and look excellent....

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Upgraded forums and “Top Submitters” in StreetView

A couple of nice updates to the site: vBulletin 4.0 — We’ve upgraded our forums to vBulletin 4.0, giving you more features and better security. Top StreetView Submitters — We’ve had a “top submitters”...

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Some useful tools for Hurricane Gustav (and Hanna, Ike, Josephine, etc)

Tropical Atlantic has built some useful tools for Google Earth, showing a variety of possible storm tracks for all of the major storms.  Being able to side a wide variety of computer models in Google...

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Over 2,000 locations in our StreetView database

Exactly five months after it first launched, our StreetView section received its 2000th file — not bad! File # 2000 was a good find — a clear shot of the streetview car in a mirror on the side of the...

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GEH: Mobile launched

If you’re away from home and looking for something to kill some time, we’ve got your answer — GEH: Mobile.  It’s thousands of files from our database in the palm of your hand, in the format of a simple...

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Amazing Race 13 in Google Maps

My wife and I have been big fans of The Amazing Race for a few years now, so I thought it’d be fun to track their route throughout the season.  Below is their map after the first leg, from Los Angeles,...

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Track new forum discussions via Twitter

Those those of you that use our forums and use Twitter, here’s a new account for you to follow — @GEHforums.  This Twitter account simply takes any new threads in the forums and tweets out the title of...

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100,000 members

Just a quick, fun note — the number of registered users in our forums has crossed the 100,000 mark.  Wow! Thanks to all of you who have contributed over the years, and we look forward to many more!

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Over a million downloads for user ‘SpiderX22’!

We’ve just reached a cool milestone.  One our most prolific file submitters, SpiderX22, has now had his files downloaded over a million times! He’s submitted more than 1200 files to the site over the...

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New tool for you to use: Easy LatLon

This is a pretty simple one.  I often find myself quickly needing to get the latitude/longitude for a particular point, and there’s not a simple way to get it.  There’s some easy ways, but none that...

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New commenting system for files

The system we have been using for file comment was hand-built years ago, and really it was rather crude.  To simplify things, we’ve just implemented the Comment system using the Facebook JavaScript...

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Now you can add new placemarks much more easily

I built the EasyLatLon tool a while ago as a simple way for you to grab the lat/lon of any location.  It’s worked quite well for that, and it’s been rather popular, but now I’ve added some additional...

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