My Google Map Blog

Google has continued pushing out new automatically generated 3D areas although the pace this month has been a little slower than in recent months.

This month saw imagery updates on the 3rd, 8th and 19th. In addition, Google released a map of historical imagery updates showing all updates from 2009 to October 2014.

Earlier this month we looked at a misplaced satellite image. It appears to have since been corrected in Google Earth, but not in Google Maps as yet, and the change doesn’t show in any of the imagery update maps. The incorrect image is still visible in historical imagery. We also had a tip from GEB reader Jonah that there is new imagery in Bridgeport, CT, USA, which we have confirmed is visible in Google Earth, but not yet in Google Maps. This suggests there is another update after the November 19th one.

A misplaced satellite image over Koslanda, Georgia.

We had a look at a landslide in Sri Lanka …

… and a lava flow in Hawaii.

We remembered the fall of the Berlin wall, which fell 25 years ago.

What were your favorite stories this month?

The post The best of Google Earth for November 2014 appeared first on Google Earth Blog.

Thank you to GEB reader Paul, for alerting us to a recent change made to the way search results are displayed in Google Earth. The changes to the search are not a change in the code of the Google Earth client, but rather a change in the styling of the results which come from the search engine. We recently explained that searches in Google Earth are based on the same database that is used for Google Maps, and thus the results are much more up to date than the mapping data found in Google Earth.

If you search for a location such as a city or country, typically a single result is returned with just the location name and marker.

A more general search may return lots of results, which are displayed both in an indexed list as well as points or markers on the map. If the results are businesses, then links to their web page (blue globe) or Google plus page (blue marker) are shown.

We recommend you change the Google Earth settings to open web pages in an external browser, as its internal browser is somewhat outdated and may not render all modern websites properly.

Also note that searches in Google Earth are location sensitive and take into account what you are looking at in the view window when you perform a search.

The post Improvements to search in Google Earth appeared first on Google Earth Blog.