Google Street View Adds New imagery in Nearly 80 Countries

Google Street View is getting new imagery in nearly 80 countries, and Google is also using AI to sharpen its satellite imagery across Google Earth and Maps.
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AI can alter geospatial data to create deepfake geography

A fire in Central Park seems to appear as a smoke plume and a line of flames in a satellite image. Colorful lights on Diwali night in India, seen from space, seem to show widespread fireworks activity. Both images exemplify what a University of Washing… Continue reading AI can alter geospatial data to create deepfake geography

Watching Global Oil Trade With Satellite Imagery

The global oil market plays a large role in the geopolitical arena, and it is often in the interest of various role players to conceal the figures on production, consumption and movement of oil. This may simply to be to gain an advantage at the negotiation tables, or to skirt …read more

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Microcontroller and IMU Team Up for Simple Flight Sim Controls

Classes are over at Cornell, and that means one thing: the students in [Bruce Land]’s microcontroller design course have submitted their final projects, many of which, like this flight control system for Google Earth’s flight simulator, find their way to the Hackaday tips line.

We actually got this tip several days ago, but since it revealed to us the previously unknown fact that Google Earth has a flight simulator mode, we’ve been somewhat distracted. Normally controlled by mouse and keyboard, [Sheila Balu] decided to give the sim a full set of flight controls to make it more realistic. The controls …read more

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Google Maps: Hubby divorces wife after finding her on Street View with another man

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Google Maps is full of surprises, primarily thanks to some of its funniest, creepiest, and strangest street view images. In 2013, a father found his son’s dead body image and crime scene on Google Maps but who could have imagined this… Continue reading Google Maps: Hubby divorces wife after finding her on Street View with another man

Google will soon open-source Google Earth Enterprise

2017-01-31_0935 Google Earth Enterprise, which originally launched over ten years ago, was Google’s tool for businesses that wanted to build and host private versions of Google Earth and Google Maps for their internal geospatial applications. In 2015, the company announced that it would shut the service down in March 2017 but in what is becoming a pretty standard move for deprecated products, Google… Read More Continue reading Google will soon open-source Google Earth Enterprise