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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 10, 2018.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Google Earth was originally developed for use by various agencies of the United States government, including the CIA?

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List of Google Earth 3D areas

Agree, could someone re-instate the list? It is a very useful comparison with Apple maps' 3d flyover locations.

This list must contain only 3d areas and it must be trimmed if these 3d areas are merged.

I think that the best way forward would be to delete all suburbs of larger settlements from this list, unless those suburbs are major cities themselves (eg. Yokohama is a big city but also a suburb of an even bigger city Tokyo; but the Lawrence suburb of Indianapolis is not a major city). I would also remove all internal divisions of each country except the United States. 86.124.206.135 (talk) 15:09, 17 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Is there someone to re-instate the list of 3d cities? This is a very useful comparison with Apple maps' 3d flyover locations. 62.231.94.90 (talk) 11:29, 11 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Weather layer

When did Google Earth add a weather layer? I see nothing about it here. Seems a pretty major oversight, since the past 2 winters the weather has been pretty wild as seen from Google Earth. Entire continents whited out. Thetrellan (talk) 18:50, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

If we don't have a third-party source saying that, we can't include it here. And if no source talks about this, it's a good indicator that the change isn't notable. InfiniteNexus (talk) 21:39, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"Geegle Earth" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Geegle Earth has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 June 5 § Geegle Earth until a consensus is reached. Mia Mahey (talk) 02:13, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Telescopes

Just checking random recommendations of best personal telescopes Alphonce Aboge (talk) 01:36, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]