GeoEye passed over Haiti this morning, and the imagery has been provided to Google, with the resulting KML now available for download and viewing in Google Earth or you can see the imagery in Google Maps. You can also take a look at the imagery via the KML Viewer gadget embedded below. Other imaging satellites [...]

The crew over on the Google Earth Enterprise have a new version to announce – 3.2.  The fellows over at Google have had a pretty busy week, what with the big OS announcement, not to mention the offical launch of much of their product line, so it’d be easy to miss this in the diluge of [...]

The Sydney Morning Herald has an interesting article heavily quoting Google Earth’s project head John Hanke, “We’re not the bad guys.”  The article goes on to heavily quote Hanke concerning the issue, but the gist of it is that technology is morally neutral.  You can use it for good and bad things and it’s up [...]

PCPro in the UK is reporting that Google may unveil a new product in its family of mapping tools – Google Ocean!  The application would feature topographic layers of the ocean floor, underwater photos, and even points of interest like famous ship wrecks.  For those intreguied by the inner space, this should be great!  Now [...]

Last night I downloaded and started playing with the new Earthscape Santa Tracker. This free iPhone app builds on some of the basic features of the full Earthscape app by adding Santa’s planned route for Christmas Eve. The app also features holiday themed photos that have been submitted by users of the full app. Since [...]

A while back I posted about the Chemical Brothers using Google Earth to create a global multimedia project by inviting fans to submit videos to help promote the release of their new album Brotherhood. Centered around the theme of Midnight Madness, a song on the record, the finished project is now available to view as [...]

I am supposed to be posting another interview right now, but I just bought and started playing with EarthScape Basic, a virtual globe program that runs on the iPhone and iPod Touch (and apparently som other mobiles as well). While there are quite a few features missing for a $9.99 app in my opinion [...]

The Chemical Brothers are creating a cool global video project based on the theme “Midnight Madness”, using Google Earth and their fans worldwide to promote the release of their new album “Brotherhood”. Fans simply make a short video or a photo that relates to their favorite Chemical Brothers’ song and the theme, then head over [...]

I found this wicked cool video over on Gizmodo on a Google Earth Hologram Device You’ll Want and want to see. It is pretty cool to see how many new interfaces are being built to interact with maps and virtual globes.
Holographic Google Earth from Nicolas Loeillot on Vimeo.

During Sony’s keynote at the Tokyo Games Conference in 2006, the former head of Playstation, Ken Kutaragi, briefly mentioned his vision for the PS3 and specifically talked about a global mapping system for the PS3 (see our previous post here). Last week in Tokyo, Sony held a strategy meeting open to the press, where they [...]