Google Earth combines satellite imagery and aerial photography to create a rich picture of earth. You can use Google Earth online, on your smartphone or tablet, or on its desktop app — all for free.

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I appreciate receiving reader feedback, and I received some from the August 2013 Tech Tips about using Google Earth (G-E). The basic message was that while G-E is interesting, the fact that it doesn’t ...

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 ...

A World of Information Google Earth puts an entire planet’s worth of useful, relevant, and just plain weird content at your fingertips. As you saw in “The Strangest Sights in Google Earth,” some ...

People do like to organize their trips. That’s why Google Earth is so popular in the first place. You can pretty much get around the world from the comfort of your home and check out places you want ...

Google Earth has added satellite photos from 2021 and 2022 to its zoomable timelapse video of our planet. Journey through space and time with the 4D interactive map, featuring nearly four decades of ...

Many people out there would like to get their home or business modeled in 3D for Google Earth, but don’t have the time or expertise to use Google SketchUp to do it themselves. Over time, Building ...

Google has come up with a way to better map Earth’s disasters, predict them, and be able to track which communities and ecosystems are going to be harmed. If you want to find out what’s straining the ...