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Google Earth for Mac + AppleScript = Geotagger! (and more!) Mac users suddenly have plenty to rejoice about. What happened? Craig Stanton — he of iPhotoToGoogleEarth fame — just discovered that Google Earth 4 has a basic AppleScript library! This opens up all sorts of possibilities. For Craig, it allowed him to build what is perhaps the simplest, most intuitive georeferencing application on any pl

I’ve been trying out the test version of Picasa that publishes web albums and lets you geotag photos with Google Earth. I imported some photos of Stockholm, geotagged them, and published them as a web album. I’m completely impressed. The process manages to combine absolute ease of use with all the power that Google Earth now musters. It took me no time at all to pinpoint seven photos to within a m

The driving force of Google Earth, Michael T. Jones, passed away today, January 18, 2021. I happened on the news via this post from Brian McClendon. Simply put: This blog and its stories would never have happened were it not for Michael. When I first encountered Keyhole Earth late in 2004, I took a violent liking to it — this was science fiction made real overnight, a stunning transformative techn

Sweden’s Lantmäteriverket, the state GIS agency, has been caught camouflaging its censorship of the country’s spy headquarters on aerial images it makes public, and Google Maps is directly responsible for the find. It started when Eniro, a mainstream search and mapping site for Sweden, decided to use Lantmäteriverket’s images to add aerial shots and hybrid maps to its mapping service, much like Go