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 ...

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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 ...

Unusual finds are quite fascinating, so when Utah authorities found a mysterious monolith in a remote part of the Utah desert, the images grew viral rather quickly, and people are trying to pinpoint ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: The following review is part of Macworld’s GemFest 2010 series. Every day from mid July through August, the Macworld staff will use the Mac Gems blog to briefly cover a favorite free or ...

Google Earth and satellite imagery has revealed some strange things, from secret military bunkers in China to phantom islands to a mysterious pentagram in Kazakhstan. When you purchase through links ...