The effects of World War II were far-reaching, but hard to put into perspective from the texts of history books. From the bombed-out streets of London to devastated monuments in Paris, Google is ...

Who among us hasn't wished for the ability to time travel. Unfortunately, you can't hop in a DeLorean, gun it to 88 miles per hour, and visit the past. However, Google Earth has the next best thing ...

Google Earth has just turned 20 years old, and the company is giving users some new features. Firstly, the company is bringing over the Historical Imagery feature that was first introduced with Google ...

Last week we started on a project to try and map out the density of historical imagery in Google Earth using the Google Earth plugin. We created a short piece of JavaScript that queries the Google ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

With a vast trove of images from the past, the massive cartographic search tool lets users travel back in Earth’s time Google spent eight years collecting historical imagery — aerial and satellite ...

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Last fall, a little-known Google Maps feature went viral for letting users get a glimpse of lost loved ones, old family pets, childhood homes, and even their younger selves. Those memories are getting ...

Whether you're looking up the storefront of a specific restaurant or exploring a continent virtually, Google Maps and Google Earth are great tools for viewing a part of the world from your device. Now ...

This is an overview of the 3D Buildings layer in Google Earth as it currently exists with Google Earth 5. The 3D Buildings layer has evolved a great deal since Google Earth was first released. In the ...