Matt Fox at Google Earth Library has just created a very impressive topographic map overlay for New Zealand.The imagery is lined up perfectly, and amazingly sharp. Matt grabbed all 455 maps from ...

To create the new map, the ASTER instrument aboard the Terra satellite took two images every 30 metres. One picture was snapped from directly overhead, while the other was taken looking backwards ...

New Zealand is a fairly regular inclusion on any traveller’s hit list. Its magnificent scenery attracts explorers and filmmakers in equal measure, while the nation’s taste for adventure (think ...