Last week, the revamped Google Earth celebrated its one year birthday, noting that in the past 12 months Google added updated 3D and 2D imagery for 40% of the world’s population. With a number of ...

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Ever since Google Earth was first released, I’ve thought teachers of all sorts would find it an indespensible tool for teaching. In particular, I’m sure geography lessons are being transformed by ...

The game tests your trivia knowledge about a range of topics and events and geography using Google Maps. I'm PCMag's managing editor for consumer electronics, overseeing an experienced team of ...

Google Maps has become a mainstay of the modern era to the point where there was a huge uproar when an iOS update once removed the popular app in lieu of Apple's lackluster proprietary navigation ...

Here is a random little thing from Google: a Maps-based quiz game. The company today quietly launched Smarty Pins, which allows you to test your geography knowledge through questions in six categories ...

Speaking about the need for geography lessons reminded me now would be a good time to highlight a good web site for helping educators use Google Earth and other technologies to teach geography. Juicy ...

We’ve played quite a few great Google Maps-based games in the last year. And now, Google itself has unveiled Smarty Pins, a new geography trivia game that’s just as addictive as the rest. In Smarty ...

Gautam Anand, coder who is still in high school, created WorldGuessr, a free game now used in classrooms, in response to ...

On Tuesday Google released a geography game that asks you place-based questions and has you drop a pin in Maps to indicate your answer. If you get it right, you win “miles” instead of points, because ...

Google was grated a patent that discusses a system of determining content access privileges by country/geography. While it undoubtedly has multiple uses, Google book scanning and search appears to be ...