The best of Google Earth for November 2016
by Timothy Whitehead on Dec.01, 2016, 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
The biggest Google Earth news this month was the release of new global mosaics of Landsat/Sentinel 2 data from 1985 to date, and the release of Google Earth VR edition.
The growth of Lusaka, Zambia, over 30 years (1985-2016) using the new Google Earth global mosaics.
 We had a look at the artwork of Italian artist Dario Gambarin in the fields near the Italian town of Castagnaro.
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 We had a look at the island of Ta’u that has recently installed a solar system from Tesla, including solar panels and large batteries. We also had a look at a number of other islands using renewable energy.
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 Google released Edition 3 of the Voyager layers featuring the story of Saroo Brierley, who found his way home with the help of Google Earth. We have received number of complaints from GEB readers that it is not obvious how to get rid of the popup that is enabled by default. The solution is to deselect the Voyager layer.
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 We had a look at how to enable 3D buildings in the flight simulator in Google Earth Pro, where, unlike the standard version, the 3D buildings are turned off by default.
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 We used Sentinel 2 imagery to have a look at the large number of landslides near Kaikoura, New Zealand following a large earthquake in the region.
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 We had a look at a tool created by GEB reader Michael Lee for putting photos in Google Earth. It differs from a similar tool we created in that ours creates photo overlays, whereas Micheal’s creates icons with the image in the popup.
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 We had a look at Dolores, Uruguay and the damage caused by a tornado that struck it in April 2016.
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 We had a look at several lightning strikes maps available for Google Earth.
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 We had a look at various sights in Google Earth imagery, including an explosion at the Puma Energy plant in Nicaragua, the North Korean floods of August, 2016, a folk village that has been removed in North Korea, and the June 2016 Gay Pride Parade in New York.
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 The countries of Albania and Montenegro got Street View.
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 Google announced that it is merging Google Map Maker into Google Maps. We have noticed recently that they have stopped showing postcode boundaries in Google Maps. We don’t know if this is related to the change.
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 We had a look at tornado tracks that we have been able to identify in Google Earth imagery.
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 We had a look at the Google Earth built-in ‘Earthquakes’ layer and noted that it is not updating. We recommend using the USGS provided KML files instead.
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 We had a look at some residents of Mars as part of a series we started in October. |
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