Possibly the most ambitious of Dubai's land reclamation projects, The World is an archipelago of 300 islands laid out to represent countries of the world. The first developed island is owned by Formula 1 driver Michael…

Just after yesterday's announcement of New Google Earth version 4 betas the team have sneaked out another, as yet unannounced, imagery update. Although it's not clear where has or hasn't been updated it is already clear…

The Palace of the Parliament in Romania has a floor area of 350,000 m² which makes it one of the world's largest buildings. Previously called the "House of the People" under communism it also narrowly misses…

JP found this little building on a seemingly un-inhabited tiny island off Macau. Written on the roof is some Chinese characters and the word "ZAO" - secret lair perhaps? A bit of investigation let me to…

It's two stadiums in one! While looking at the most recent Imagery update for Google Earth on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, I was trying to match up the older Google Maps images with the newer…

There's been another image update to Google Earth, as announced by PenguinOpus on the Google Earth forums. The updated areas are: 12 high-resolution cities in Germany (Bayreuth, Bochum, Castrop-Rauxel, Fulda, Hof, Mannheim, Marburg, Potsdam, Schweinfurt, Siegen,…