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The best of Google Earth for September 2014

by Timothy Whitehead on Sep.30, 2014, under 3D Models, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, California, Denmark, England, Germany, Google Earth News, Google Earth Tips, Google Sky, Google maps, Hawaii, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Natural Landmarks, Netherlands, Sightseeing, Street Views, USA

Early this month we released a KML demarcating the areas covered with the new 3D mesh that Google has been rolling out in Google Earth. It has proved quite popular, with readers regularly letting us know of new areas they have found.

Street View coverage has been expanding, with the most significant gains in Argentina and Malaysia.

As far as we are aware, Google have not done any significant updates to satellite or aerial imagery this month.

We really liked the story about Skybox Imaging capturing the Burning Man festival on multiple days and producing animated gifs from the results. If you haven’t done so already, be sure to check out their official blog post with many more animations like the one below.

Burning man animated gif
One of a number of animated gifs created by Skybox Imaging.

We enjoyed looking at the 3D imagery that Google is rolling out and having a deeper look at what you can see in it and what problems it has, and why.
Cruise ship Richard With
The Cruise ship Richard With, one of several cruise ships we looked at in Bergen, Norway.

Ghostly Aircraft
If aircraft moved during the image capturing, the result is ghostly looking 3D images.

Another interesting story was about a mural of Google Earth in Chanute, Kansas, that is visible in the Google Earth satellite imagery. Read more in the post to find out why it was made.
Google Earth mural
The Google Earth mural as seen in Google Earth.

We also took a look at the Ground Truth project and how Google creates the Google Maps data and keeps it up to date.
Ground Truth project
Google Maps contains a lot more than just street names.

What were your favorite stories of the month?

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