Identifying the latitude and longitude for a point of interest helps you pinpoint its exact location on the planet using a geographic coordinate system. You can find a point in Google Maps by ...

A GEB reader recently asked us how to use UTM coordinates in Google Earth and we thought it might be a good idea to explore it a bit. If you go to Tools->Options->3D View and look in the ‘Show ...

Ever since Google first let people scour the planet from the comfort of their computers through the Google Earth software program, fans have been on a virtual scavenger hunt from the North Pole to the ...

Google Earth is useful for storing geographic information such as land coordinates and placemarks for places of interest. It is a valuable tool for businesses that do asset management or land surveys ...

On 22 October I wrote about Geocaching.com supporting Google Earth as a powerful way to search Geocaches. At the time I had no official announcement from the company. Here’s a link to the announcement ...

On my vacation and just purchased a Magellan Triton GPS handheld, and am somewhat confused by the readings in GPS when attempting to correlate same with Google Earth. The Magellan GPS give a reading I ...

A persistent Google Earth mystery was the blurring of a single square surrounded by roads and plantations in El Ejido, Spain, at the coordinates 36.747447, -2.718279. The site was clear until an ...