Google Street View is a valuable tool that allows you to see panoramic views of streets around the world. The interactive feature, which is available on Google Maps and Google Earth, can be used to ...

Google Earth is arguably the best product Google has ever created because it allows anyone to explore our planet (and beyond) with ease. However, you may not know that Google also has an app called ...

Google Earth got a Street View feature that effectively lets users travel through time. The tech giant announced this week that it was bringing historical Street View imagery to Google Earth, which ...

Google Maps and Earth are two useful pieces of software for getting around or learning more about our planet, and this week, Google is offering up some details on just what percentage of the planet ...

If you’ve ever wanted to know what it’s like to live on Mars, Google will take you there for free. Google Street View has added images of Devon Island, the largest uninhabited island on the planet to ...

Since its launch in 2005, Google Maps has become an invaluable tool for navigating around the world. Over time, innovations have been added to improve the service, like Street View’s on-the-ground ...

Google Maps is a lot more than a GPS app these days. Sure, it’ll help you navigate your commute, but you can also use it to learn about and virtually explore any city in the world. Google is building ...

For most uses, Google Maps is a flat, 2D app, and if your device can handle more graphics and a bit more data, you can fire up the Google Earth 3D data set and get 3D buildings. At Google I/O Google ...

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 ...

Earth View is a “collection of the most striking landscapes found in Google Earth” that came about from people taking screenshots of the virtual globe for desktop backdrops. Google today added over ...

On Monday, Google officially updated North Korea on Google Maps. Thanks to crowd-sourced data, the area is no longer blank, but instead includes markings for just about everything — right down to the ...

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