NASA's new web portal reveals ground movements across North America with precision that captures tiny shifts smaller than an inch, reported NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This tool helps people ...

Google could soon add satellite connectivity features to Maps. Google Maps beta v11.125 has strings of code suggesting you’ll be able to update you location via satellite every 15 minutes, five times ...

Satellite images posted online of burned neighborhoods allow people to zoom in on specific houses in the Wine Country fire zones. The project by Robin Kraft on the open-source mapping platform Mapbox ...

NASA has released the first radar images from a new Earth-mapping satellite showing the Maine coast and North Dakota farmland in incredible detail.

DigitalGlobe’s new satellite will let any private buyer purchase images so sharp, they can identify individual trees and cars on the ground. A few months ago, the Commerce Department made a small ...

Microsoft has set its sights on Google Maps, adding more than 165 terabytes of new satellite imagery to Bing Maps. This is the biggest ever data release for Bing Maps, which had 129TB of data at its ...

While the concept of “deepfakes,” or AI-generated synthetic imagery, has been decried primarily in connection with involuntary depictions of people, the technology is dangerous (and interesting) in ...

Google expert Philipp Lenssen details how to manipulate Google Maps URLs to zoom in close enough to see an individual camel in the middle of Africa. The technique doesn't work in all locations, but ...

As we have mentioned before, the maximum zoom available in Google Maps varies between 7 and 22. However, if we correct for the magnification at the poles, the minimum becomes 9. Below you can see ...