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Video tutorial for Google Earth 6.1
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Video tutorial for Google Earth 5.0
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Review
This is official description applies to version 6.1
Get the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
Google Earth lets you fly anywhere to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, galaxies in outer space, and the depths of the ocean.
Features:
-Explore rich geographical content
-Search for business locations
-See 3D buildings and add your own models
-Visualize your GPS tracks and share with others
-Dive beneath the surface of the ocean
The following review written by one of the Software Informer contributors applies to version 5.0
Google Earth is a program that creates a virtual globe that represents the Earth from the juxtaposition of satellite photographs. It comes in three versions: the free one for common or personal users, Google Earth (Enterprise) and Google Earth Pro that costs $400/year. Unlike older versions, this is available in many languages.
In the beginning, you are offered tips or suggestions that are very helpful to learn the new features that the new version has (usually points differences from version 4.3 onwards). Among its features, you find a “Flight simulator” (I crashed and burned with a F-16 Fighting Falcon, a SR-22 was also available), the Sky and Mars mode (it’s a tool for viewing stars and astronomical images, and high resolution maps from Mars), Street Views and 3D Buildings (not present everywhere, users have their viewpoint from street-level), Google Ocean (new since version 5.0 - users can dive in the ocean).
A definitely surprising feature for those who are new to Google Earth is the possibility of navigating through space and Mars. You can watch constellations, mars, some galaxies get information about our solar system and some other astronomical information (all very educational). I was impressed by the images of Mars’ geography; I spent quite some time navigating through mars and watching the real black and white photographs taken from spacecrafts.
Back to the Earth, the very first thing I did was type in the search box the name of my home town and later, the address of the house where I lived during my childhood. Watching my old neighborhood and my old primary school again after a while was a very nice thing!
My conclusion is that I was able to zoom in or out, navigate and control it without much effort. I just needed to read the manual a bit and start using the program. Its usability is excellent. Besides the geographical information, it allows to measure, draw, save, and print images and positions, as well as import GPS information. But I think the most important is its educational value. |
- Educational, a lot of information
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- Not many images for small towns.
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Reviewed by: Germán González Reviewer rating: Reviewed: 3 years ago
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What's new in version 6.2 beta
Enhanced search, including support for:
- Clearer local business and directions search results. These now appear in full HTML in the left hand panel.
- Improved quality thresholds on search results.
- Walking directions, biking directions, and transit search.
- Search layers in local business searches. In a local business search, you now see all relevant results in the 3D view, 10 results in the search panel.
- Suggest in search. As you type a search query, search suggestions appear in a drop-down menu.
- Loading search results with one click, not two.
Improved imagery rendering, including:
- Google Earth imagery is significantly more seamless, especially at higher altitudes
- Fade-in animation for imagery as it is fetched.
- Anisotropic filtering by default.
- Improved level of detail calculation for imagery tiles.
Unified network stack. Google Earth now uses the same network stack for imagery, vector content, balloon content and embedded browser content. This will avoid situations where imagery loads but balloon content does not display under certain proxy settings.
Ability to share screenshots with your Google circles from within the Google Earth client.
Unified Google login mechanism in the client.
Improved performance with 3D buildings.
Google Earth Client
- Fixed an issue where ground overlays without the tag did not render rectangles using the fill color. KML ground overlays where images fail to load will now draw rectangles using a default or user-specified fill color.
- Added the ability to create balloon HTML for locally saved images using the “Add image” button.
- Fixed proxy accessibility issues for the Google Earth Plug-in and Client.
- Added the ability to update network links in parallel on synchronous updates.
Google Earth Browser Plug-in and API
- Fixed an issue where the Google Earth Browser Plug-in generated an “ATL 10.0” error while running on Internet Explorer versions 8 and 9.
- Fixed an issue where Google Earth Browser Plug-in wouldn’t resize on Firefox version 4 and above on Mac.
- Fixed an issue where the “-” key was not working on Google Earth Plug-in on Mac.
- Fixed an issue where the AJAX loader returned false for isSupported() on 64-bit browsers that are not supported.
- Fixed the rendering order of imagery layers added through side databases.
- Fixed an issue where 3D buildings did not update with changes in view when terrain is not visible. What's new in version 6.0
Google Earth 6 is available for the desktop in three different versions: Google Earth, Google Earth Pro, and Google Earth Enterprise. Fly anywhere to see satellite imagery, 3D buildings, 3D trees, terrain, Street View, planets and much more. What's new in version 4.3 beta
Share information with colleagues and clients via high-resolution prints of Google Earth scenes.
Empower employees with measuring tools that enable them to measure distance, area, and radius.
Import, style, and view GIS data quickly without adding additional, costly GIS software.
Map thousands of addresses in the time it takes to find a single address with an easy-to-use spreadsheet import tool.
Benefit from email support and access to a comprehensive online Help Center. |
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