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Google Releases Earth to Beta

Posted by Zonk on from the earth-to-go-live-in-2000-years dept.

Cros13 writes "Google has released a beta of it's Google Earth software to subscribers of the existing Keyhole service. New features include 3D models of buildings in selected cities, input from your gps receiver and a better search system. I have posted screenshots here and here." This product is in competition with Microsoft's Virtual Earth, as we reported earlier.

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  1. Re:What would you use Keyhole / Google Earth for? by VAXcat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm a pilot, and it's durned handy to be able to get a satellite eye's view of an airport I haven't been to before, so's I can pick out some landmarks. It's not that easy spotting a weedpatch airstrip from the air the first time over it, and the aerial photos in Keyhole help, especially the slant view feature.

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  2. Nasa has one also by thr2k · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Nasa has a pretty cool mapping program as well.
    World Wind 1.3
    http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

    The servers are a little slow but its still a handy program.