Johnson’s Reef on the northwest shore of St. John Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands forms colorful peaks in this lidar image recorded by NASA’s Experimental Advanced Airborne Research Lidar (EAARL) in ...

As mentioned yesterday, I wanted to create a video demonstrating why I think Globe Glider is a super mapping mashup. Globe Glider in its basic form lets you get a strong sense of geospatial context by ...

Richard Treves writes the Google Earth Design blog where he often analyzes various Google Earth content and provides critiques and suggestions with the intent to help people understand how to improve ...

A new 3D mapping project aims to improve on GPS' limitations. Project Orbion will capture and refresh data about Earth, fast. The technology could have uses in government, business, and more. Move ...

Take a tour of the Metaverse project Earth 2 in this trailer. Earth 2 is the Geolocational Metaverse meaning that any place you stand in the real world is digitally represented inside of Earth 2. With ...

The world is no longer flat. At least in Tucson. Through the all-seeing eyes of Google. The tech giant has smiled upon the Old Pueblo, making Tucson one of the first cities to appear in 3D via the ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimensions.

Editor’s note: This article, distributed by The Associated Press, was originally published on The Conversation website. The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and ...

Something to look forward to: The 3D view in Google Maps has become increasingly detailed and informative over the past year, offering users vivid previews of landmarks. Recent updates merge this ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Oct. 8, 2023. The original video can be viewed here. There was a time when futurists were predicting that the advent of 3D printing was going ...