Sample screen shots from Google Earth:
- Paris, France
- Hotels in New York City
- Fenway Park in Boston
- Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon
- A trip from Edmonton to Seattle
- The About office in NYC
Downloading Google Earth - you can choose from four exciting flavors:
Google Earth - Free Version, Google Earth Plus, Google Earth Pro, and Google Earth Enterprise Solutions. Each of these Google Earth versions is tailored to specific needs.
1) Google Earth - Free Version:
This "basic" yet feature-laden version will enable you to explore, search and discover all the nooks and crannies of your neighborhood, your city, or your planet. High resolution detail of places around the world will astound you. Local searches will show, in 3D, the parks, schools, hospitals, airports, hotels, businesses, shopping, and more. You can even check out the location for your next apartment-hunt right from the comfort of your Lazy Boy by zooming in t o a specific address. Planning your next trip couldn't be easier; all you need to do is feed the Google Earth program some details of your trip's start and end points, and you can see the detailed driving directions, or even fly along your route. An excellent program for any student to provide instant help with their geography homework! Download Google Earth, free version, here.
2) Google Earth Plus: This is an optional, upgraded version of Google Earth. On top of the "basics" provided by the free version, Google Earth Plus also enables you to plug in your GPS to plan and see your travel routes. If you are in the market for a house, you can import the spreadsheet of the listings right into the program! Google Earth Plus will also let you get a higher resolution prints, do your own annotations, and import data from .CSV files! All that plus customer support via email for only 20 dollars! Download Google Earth, Plus version, here.
3) Google Earth Pro: If you are using Google Earth for business, this is your ultimate research, presentation, and collaboration tool for location information. See high resolution 3D imagery of any location on the planet, import site plans, design sketches and even scanned blueprints. Add your own annotations, and even import your geo data spreadsheets with up to 2,500 locations all at once! Download Google Earth, Pro version, here.
Some very interesting optional components even let you make movies of your zooms and tours, print gigantic high-resolution images, and import various GIS, traffic, or shopping data.
4) Google Earth Enterprise Solution:
This version of Google Earth provides an invaluable professional tool for any business, large or small, that deals heavily with geographical information. A fast, complete and flexible, the Enterprise Solution makes it easy for non-specialist users to interact with massive quantities of satellite imagery and GIS data. Google Earth Enterprise Solutions comprises of very specialized components, key features and solutions to provide a first rate business application capable of handling terabytes of geographical data to commercial real estate developers, architecture and engineering companies, insurance companies and media. Download Google Earth, Enterprise version, here.
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Special thanks to guest technical author, Joanna Gurnitsky, for this fine introduction to Google Earth software.
