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Google Earth 4.3 Offers a Number of New Features
GoogleWatch writes "Google's all excited for Earth day, and just in time there's a new version of Google Earth available. 4.3 offers up revamped navigation controls, 3-D photo-realistic buildings in major cities, and time-lapse views of sunsets and sunrises. Also new in Google Earth 4.3 is access to the street view movies found in Google Maps. Just click any of the camera icons and the familiar street view window will pop up. The sunrise and sunset movies are also quite impressive. Fly to a location you'd like to see and click the "sun" button in the toolbar. That will bring up a small timeline graphic and you can either hit play or drag the timeline slider to watch the day unfold."
If you have 4gb or more the images wont load correctly and are very blurry. If you limit to 3gb at boot the program will load the zoomed in images correctly and clearly but then the program will crash because of a nasty memory leak which also destableizes your system.
Why does google hate people who want 4gb of ram, there are quite a few of us and 64bit desktops have been around since 2003.
Also the Dominican Republic. Notice Haiti on the left all tagged and detailed.
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Google only licenses the map data from whatever company or government agency owns it. If they don't have map data for Argentina then whoever owns the map data for Argentina isn't selling.
Well, there's also Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, Guyana, Suriname, Guyane...and that's just South America.
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Ok, I'm late on that one. But really worth is the GEB 6-minutes video demonstration of the new features.
Here's more info, well, a copy of my post of the site from my sig:
Mentioned earlier this week, here's the official announcement and a description of a new feature, 3D building swooping. The release provoked a lot of reactions and writings in the geoblogs. Here's the GEB entries on his first impressions [with screenshots], a video demonstration, well worth the 6 minutes (really), a short explanation of the new navigation widgets and some final thoughts on GE 4.3. Ogle Earth also shares his comments and discuss the differences between atlases and mirror worlds. Interesting to note that not everyone is pleased with some of the changes, with GE being dubbed the AOL of the Geoweb. APB also links to a IW article on the practical uses of Google StreetView.
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