Storytelling has long been a powerful way to educate, connect, and inspire learners around the world. Stories shed light on shared experiences, values, and history that unite all people; they also have the ability to forge pathways for adopting new ideas and perspectives. Stories can help us understand information on both a psychological and emotional level. Google Earth helps visualize place-based stories in 3D and allows you to add rich geospatial context to your own Earth projects.
Voyager
Google Earth's Voyager is a showcase of interactive guided tours, quizzes, and layers that aim to help educate everyone about the world, locations near and far. By clicking the ship's wheel icon on Google Earth, you’ll circumnavigate the globe with the Hōkūleʻa using stars, track hurricanes and tropical storms in real time, and find place-based stories authored by partners such as National Geographic and HHMI Biointeractive. Voyager’s curated stories weave in rich media, such as 360 videos and Street View, allowing us to learn about Earth from a new perspective.
Tell your stories with Google Earth
Google Earth creation tools allow you to author, collaborate, and share digital stories mapped across the canvas of the planet. Placemarks, lines, and shapes will serve as foundational story elements, similar to Voyager stories. The projects will come to life as you add photos and videos from your Google Drive folder and use the rich text editor to add narrative. To enhance the storytelling and visualizations, you can transform your project with customized icons and manipulate viewpoints in Street View mode and 3D.
Learn How to Get Started
Tell Your Story in Google Earth
