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We’ve just reached a cool milestone. One our most prolific file submitters, SpiderX22, has now had his files downloaded over a million times! He’s submitted more than 1200 files to the site over the years, and the total downloads for those files has just passed 1,000,000. Great work, Spider! I also want to recognize two […]
Read MoreJust a quick, fun note — the number of registered users in our forums has crossed the 100,000 mark. Wow! Thanks to all of you who have contributed over the years, and we look forward to many more!
Read MoreThose those of you that use our forums and use Twitter, here’s a new account for you to follow — @GEHforums. This Twitter account simply takes any new threads in the forums and tweets out the title of the thread and a link. It’s a good way to keep up with new discussions without having […]
Read MoreGoogle has brought out a handful of new 3D cities in the past few days. Today saw the release of Seattle and Pittsburgh, both of which now have hundreds of full-color buildings and look excellent. Here is a shot from Pittsburgh. A few days ago, Google unveiled a new layer for Google Earth that […]
Read MoreA couple of cool new things today: Google Earth is now available as a free app for the iPhone. Not only is it free, but it’s good! It looks very similar to the normal Google Earth program, includes 3D terrain, Wikipedia/Panoramio icons and a few other goodies. No 3D buildings, but that’s not a problem […]
Read MoreAs reported by Google Maps Mania and the Digital Earth Blog, Google Maps StreetView has just gotten a lot more imagery in France. In particular, they now have: Lille Lyon Marseille Nice Paris Toulouse If you find any cool stuff out there, be sure to submit it to our StreetView database.
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