Archivi autore: Aaron Stein

[Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog]Sipping warm cider, watching the snow fall, unwrapping gifts — these holiday traditions always seem to produce many of the year’s sweetest memories. Several years ago, we added another holiday tradition to … Continua a leggere→

The 2010 Winter Games are just around the corner, and at Google, we’re getting pretty excited.Last week we shared some maps of local experts’ favorite locations in and around Vancouver with the help from our Google Canada team. Today we’ve introduced p… Continua a leggere→

[Cross-posted from the Official Google Africa Blog]From late October to early November, the Google Earth Outreach team, along with Googlers from our Africa and Geo teams, participated in several events in East Africa.During the AfricaGIS 2009 conferenc… Continua a leggere→

We just launched our final imagery update of the year for Google Earth and Google Maps. Check to see if any of your favorite places have gotten an update! You can view the updated areas highlighted in red below. Alternatively, you can download this KM… Continua a leggere→

[Cross-posted from the Official Google SketchUp Blog]A few of us on the SketchUp team either have roots in Detroit or grew up there, so we’re especially happy to announce that Detroit, Michigan as been added in 3D to Google Earth. From sports venues li… Continua a leggere→

We just launched new imagery and terrain for Mars in Google Earth! If you have the Google Earth plugin installed, you can view the updated areas highlighted in red (imagery) and white (terrain) below. Alternatively, you can download this KML, for viewi… Continua a leggere→

Voted the most livable city by The Economist, Vancouver fronts the Pacific Ocean in British Columbia, Canada. This February it will host the 2010 Winter Games, and beforehand we wanted to share the favorite (or “favourite”, for Canadian readers) places… Continua a leggere→

Back in June of 2008, some of my fellow engineers and I got to thinking: how could we recreate the experience of seeing the impressive imagery from our geo products in a more seamless way? We scrounged some spare Linux workstations, and in our 20% time… Continua a leggere→