This is a follow-up to my post made on July 27th with the details released by Google on Tuesday. I’ve been on vacation for the last week in the Virgin Islands, so I wasn’t able to make this post ...

Josh Lowensohn joined CNET in 2006 and now covers Apple. Before that, Josh wrote about everything from new Web start-ups, to remote-controlled robots that watch your house. Prior to joining CNET, Josh ...

Google Maps has gone another step toward becoming a web-based Google Earth, adding a new terrain view. As the name implies, the terrain view, which replaces the old hybrid view, lets you look at ...

Google is bringing a new update to Maps that adds more color to distinguish between terrain. The feature builds on the app’s current color coding and introduces more granularity to the kind of terrain ...

There was a lot of news last week from Google. Much of the news had to do with Google Maps, APIs, KML search, and KML support on other platforms. However, this past weekend Google released an enormous ...

Internet information giant Google updated ocean data in its Google Earth application this week, reflecting new bathymetry data assembled by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, NOAA ...

Users of Google's latest edition of its mapping application are now able to build and share rich 3D content. Google Earth 4 is now a mixture of textured 3D renderings of famous architectural sites and ...

A new web application that makes it quick and easy for people to use 3-D printers to make terrain models of any place on Earth has now been developed by researchers. Their idea -- they call it ...

Follow the American Revolution through a modern lens as Google Earth brings historic battlefields, colonial cities, and key ...