Google has just made the history and geography nerd in me very ... cloud shadows and haze while creating brighter, sharper images on Google Earth and Maps.

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Amateur history buffs can tap into the 'Historical imagery' feature on Google Earth and check out imagery dating back to the World War II era in some of the world’s largest cities.

These enhancements also apply to the Google Earth application, where new historical street and satellite images will be ...

And while I don’t know for sure when these images were updated, social media users in recent days have spotted updated Google Earth photos for the city of Mariupol — which was one of the first ...

But as ZDNet reports, Google Earth actually allows users to view imagery going back much further—all the way to the 1940s in some areas—with its Historical imagery feature. However ...