Google Earth Gets a New Home On the Web (arstechnica.com) 46
To celebrate the Earth Day, Google says it is rolling out what was a two-year in the making major update to Google Earth. From a report: V9 is designed to run in a Web browser (just Chrome for now), but there's now a standalone home for Google Earth. The Android app has been updated, too (iOS is coming soon). Version 9 puts a big focus on guided tours via the "Voyager" section, which serves as a jumping off point for YouTube videos, 360-degree content, Street View, and Google Earth landmarks. The tours are led by scientists and documentarians, with some content produced by well-known groups like the BBC's Planet Earth team. For kids, there's a Sesame Street muppet section.
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Photo(shop) or it didn't happen.
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We must summon APK to learn more.
HOSTS APK AdBlock
HOSTS APK AdBlock
HOSTS APK AdBlock
There, that should do it.
Nice, but what we need is an updated client (Score:5, Interesting)
Nice, but what we need is an updated client so we can use KML and turn off the "photorealistic" fake 3D buildings and trees (turning on "2D" still uses the fake renderings in the web client).
We also need the glassy-smooth animation and smooth scrolly-wheel zooming which this web clien't can't seem to handle.
Re:Nice, but what we need is an updated client (Score:4, Interesting)
I agree. KML support is lacking in this. I have some huge kmz files (like this one https://live.wifidb.net/wifidb... [wifidb.net] ) and files with a lot of network links (like this one https://live.wifidb.net/wifidb... [wifidb.net] ) and neither of them work in this (the large file somewhat works). Its almost as bad as the mobile version of google earth. I'd love to see a 64bit version of the old desktop client...this new web version is junk
Dunno, never used it, still actually cannot (Score:1)
google maps though, that I used to use a lot. Until they "updated" it and became dead slow for me.
The web, it's breaking at the seams.
Re:Nice, but what we need is an updated client (Score:5, Interesting)
"Aw snap! The new Google Earth isn't supported by your browser yet. Try this link in Chrome instead. If you don't have Chrome installed, download it here."
Yay? [Goes back to non-web/desktop v.7 client that supports KML]
I do appreciate that Google is providing all of this for "free" (ad-supported), though.
Sales message for the invasive Chrome browser? (Score:5, Informative)
Google's Chrome browser installs system services. If you are operating as a limited user, Google has more control over your computer than you do.
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I really dislike Google's Windows softwares. Even Google Hangout install lame extra stuff.
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The system services are easy to avoid. If you forget to opt-out, just find the services and Disable them. They're the same services that Google Chrome uses.
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Correction: What I meant is that the services installed by the Google Earth client are similar, if not in name, to the ones installed by Google Chrome.
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Sure, it's working, but on my Core i7 Windows laptop with discrete graphics skips badly, like at 5 FPS. The actual client is smooth as butter.
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Runs at 5 FPS, either way, I don't care anymore.
Instructions not clear (Score:5, Funny)
Instructions not clear, stuck in the Delta Quadrant.
The Chrome-only web arises! Thanks, Firefox. (Score:2, Insightful)
Targeting Chrome as the only supported browser has become possible thanks to Firefox's decreasing market share [caniuse.com]. It's now down to about 5% or 6%, across all versions and all platforms. It has no mobile presence of any substance (0.03%).
Targeting only Chrome really wasn't feasible back when Firefox had 30% or more of the browser market. But thanks to one unwanted chaneg after another, users have fled Firefox and moved to Chrome instea
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That is particularly bizarre, because while I don't much like Firefox on the desktop, on Android it's the only decent browser I've found.
People aren't really trying to use Chrome on Android, are they? On the desktop it's ok, but the mobile version is crippled beyond belief.
Chrome Comes With Android (Score:2)
Just look at the marketshare of Edge.
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Please don't delude yourself into thinking that Firefox is any better when it comes to privacy and not tracking its users.
Just look at how much user info Firefox can collect and send to Mozilla and others [mozilla.org].
Their page clearly lists various types of identifiers and browsing history that might be sent, including such things as: "IP address", "location", "phone number", "email address", "URLs", "information about visited sites", "terms you type in the Awesome Bar or Search Bar", "website domain", "Google adverti
Live Clouds (Score:3)
How do I view historic aerial photos???? (Score:1)
How do I view historic aerial photos and historic streetview photos in this new Google Earth????
google earth (Score:1)
Muppets (Score:5, Funny)
"For kids, there's a Sesame Street muppet section."
Ok. Raise your hand if you are a non-kid and went straight to the Sesame Street Muppet section.
Re: Muppets (Score:1)
***crickets***
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Whatyda mean, "but"? (Score:2)
V9 is designed to run in a Web browser (just Chrome for now), but there's now a standalone home for Google Earth.
I don't know what the but means. You go there, and it tells you to download Chrome, so...
I swear "journalists" these days just throw prepositions around until the sentence they couldn't be bothered to construct coherently from scratch stops getting underlined as grammatically incorrect.
Not that that was a very coherent sentence... but then I'm not a journalist.
Google Earth VR (Score:2)
We really need Google Earth VR to work on The Google Pixel / DayDream headset.
Currently it only works on the HTC Vive, and thats a big shortcoming.
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Funny I was thinking we really need Google to stop being involved in web standards. Funny how our needs differ.
Fix Linux version (Score:2)
When will Google release a working version of Google Earth that doesn't have the libraries it includes, which interfere with the already existing libraries on a machine, meaning 98% of the time, Google Earth crashes on start up?