Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps, and the power of Google Search to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips.
Fly from space to your neighborhood. Type in an address and zoom right in. Search for schools, parks, restaurants, and hotels. Get driving directions. Tilt and rotate the view to see 3D terrain and buildings. Save and share your searches and favorites. Even add your annotations.
Google Earth lets you do smooth sailing flybyes of the entire Earth. You can easily fly to any spot on the globe, by entering any associated data, like street addresses, place names, or lat/long coordinates.
Some overlays put additional information on the map, like roads, international boundaries, terrain, 3D buildings, crime statistics, schools, stadiums, and any number of interesting stuff.
You can do Local searches in the program, with icons on the map and a display on the side showing your results. You can leave notes, called “placemarks” all over the map, so you can remember where all sorts of places are.
Searches and placemarks can be saved as bookmarks in “My Places”. Everything can be output in an XML format called KML, which will allow the vast popularity of Google Maps to continue on Earth. You can also email a JPEG of the map, or send a KMZ file if you know the recipient has Google Earth installed.
Google Earth Features:
- Sophisticated streaming technology delivers the data to you as you need it.
- Imagery and 3D data depict the entire earth – Terabytes of aerial and satellite imagery depict cities around the world in high-resolution detail.
- Local search lets you search for restaurants, hotels, and even driving directions. Results show in your 3D earth view. Easy to layer multiple searches, save results to folders, and share them with others.
- Layers show parks, schools, hospitals, airports, retail, and more.
- Overlays – import site plans, design sketches, and even scanned blueprints.
- Annotate the view with lines and polygons.
- Spreadsheet import – ingest up to 2,500 locations by address or lat/lon.
- KML – data exchange format lets you share useful annotations.
Use it for:
- Planning a trip
- Getting driving directions
- Finding a house or apartment
- Finding a local business
- Exploring the world
Google Earth Pro – for professional and commercial uses, Google Earth Pro is the ultimate research, presentation and collaboration tool for location information.
Changes in Google Earth 7.3.6 :
- Movie Maker tool:
- Hardware-accelerated video encoding for faster processing and better image quality.
- HEVC (H.265) codec support.
- Full navigation controls, including Historical Imagery and Street View, are available in live recording mode.
- Better responsiveness during live recording.
- Can defer video encoding until after live recording is finished.
- In live recording mode, less obtrusive recording status dialog.
- Live recordings accurately show the timing of user actions during the recording session.
- Save video frames in QOI image format.
- Break apart a multi-geometry placemark into individual placemarks.
- Combine multiple selected placemarks into a single Multi Geometry placemark.
- Import GeoJSON files.
- Improved printing tool quality.
- Save Image tool:
- Increased maximum image size.
- PNG format support.
Windows system configuration
- Operating System: Windows 7 or higher
- CPU: 2GHz dual-core or faster
- System Memory (RAM): 4GB
- Hard Disk: 4GB free space
- High-Speed Internet Connection
- Graphics Processor: DirectX 11 or OpenGL 2.0 compatible
Mac system configuration
- Operating System: Mac OS 10.8 or later
- CPU: Intel dual-core 64-bit
- System Memory (RAM): 4GB
- Hard Disk: 4GB free space
- High-Speed Internet Connection
- Graphics Processor: OpenGL 2.0 compatible
Linux system configuration
- CPU: amd64 compatible, 2GHz
- System Memory (RAM): 4GB
- Hard Disk: 4GB free space
- High-Speed Internet Connection
- 3D Graphics Subsystem: OpenGL 2.0 compatible
- Screen: 1280×1024, 32 bit color
