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Imagine that it floods in Houston. You want to see how bad it is—what roads are blocked—so you hit up something like Google Earth for live satellite pictures of your city. It's futuristic, but not too far off thanks to a collaboration between private a fan of Google Cardboard ever since I slipped my smartphone into that unlikely box and soared the virtual skies of Google Earth. In the roughly 18 months that followed, I've spent time onstage with Paul McCartney, enjoyed virtual sightseeing tours Google believes it is on course to have enough internet-beaming balloons in the stratosphere to form a ring over part of the world next year. It told the BBC the move would let it trial a continuous data service to people living below the balloons' path. They are the Middle East's own version of the Nazca Lines — ancient "geolyphs," or drawings Kennedy and his team have been studying the structures using aerial photography and Google Earth, as the wheels are hard to pick up from the ground, Kennedy As it turns out, we have been discovering thousands of asteroids that do not belong to the Main Belt, but instead pass near Earth’s orbit – nearly 9,000 to date, with almost a thousand more are discovered every year. Google began rolling out new high-resolution 3D imagery today on both Google Maps and Google Earth, starting with New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. The company is promising more cities will get the same treatment next year. You can check out .

Curious, he went to Google Earth to find it. He poked around for a while, with no luck. Then he came across something kind of weird. But even this old analyst is having trouble ID’ing the objects he found in the overhead images of Kashgar. “I haven’t combined with the high-resolution imagery available on Google Earth. "Although aerial imagery data has been available to the world for some time, making sense of it all can be a technical challenge," says Barry Fischer, who leads energy communications for Everything from the classic tachometer and speedometer to Google Earth 3D maps looks pretty sweet on this display. Here's the "classic" view of the virtual cockpit, with the tachometer and speedometer in the forefront. In between, you can see a handy map Because Middle-Earth can be a confusing, perilous place, Reddit user mbingcrosby created this Google Maps-style guide to the journey from Hobbiton to Mordor. As you can see, it's expected to take six months ("four months without Orcs"), and be ready .