Google Earth is most-likely the easiest way to view the world as it is today or in the past, but now you can reimagine it in any way you want. Google just added Nano Banana 2 image generations directly into Google Earth on the web, live globally today.

As revealed in the official Google Earth Blog , users can now zoom into any area on Google Earth, tap a button and create new images based on the location in view, such as historical visualizations, infographics, real-estate plans or other fun creations based on real-world data.

Examples include visualizing Pompeii’s famous ruins as a busy, populated city prior to Vesuvius’ cataclysmic 79AD eruption, or turning the Statue of Liberty into an illustrated infographic annotated with key facts. After generating your picture, you can click “Refine Image” to perfect it before optionally saving it to your project. Google also suggests using the feature to visualize potential real estate projects or just fun, reimaginings of favorite locations. However, I asked it to generate an image of Venice Italy with water levels as predicted for the year 2226 and the results weren’t pretty - although it didn’t cite its information sources.

How Google Earth’s AI Upgrade Works

This idea isn’t new, Google Earth was one of the first tools users used to demonstrate the multi-modal capabilities of the original Nano Banana model. The model doesn’t simply re-draw images, it’s able to draw from multiple sources of information to help generate its output. The infographic above is a great example of how the model retrieves background information about the Statue Of Liberty in order to complete its annotations. Now with Nano Banana available directly from inside Google Earth, users no longer have to copy and paste images into a Gemini chat session to generate their images.

Quirks And Current Platform Limitations

There are a few quirks at launch, notably that you can’t adjust your image view once you’ve started writing your prompt. You have to quit your edit, reposition the image and start again. There are daily limits on the number of generations available and each image can take up to two minutes to generate.

Google AI subscribers may be surprised to discover that they can only generate a few Nano Banana images per day inside Google Earth. This is because Google Earth operates under its own separate subscription tiers, independent of any regular Google One plan.

However, the biggest catch, for now, is that if you’re looking for Nano Banana 2 in your Google Earth app, you won’t find it, as the feature is launching initially only for Google Earth on the web. With over 500 million downloads on the Play Store alone, this feels like a major oversight, making this desktop web limitation a notable restriction at launch.