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Google Earth Pro Now Available Free
HughPickens.com writes Google has long offered a Pro version of Google Earth for $399 per year that includes some pretty cool extras not found in the free version. Now Rick Broida reports at Cnet that you can get Google Earth Pro absolutely free. All you have to do is download the installer, run it, then sign in using your e-mail address (as your username) and license code GEPFREE. Features include: Advanced measurements: Measure parking lots and land developments with polygon area measure, or determine affected radius with circle measure; High-resolution printing: Print images up to 4,800 x 3,200 pixel resolution; Exclusive pro data layers with Demographics and traffic count; Spreadsheet import: Ingest up to 2,500 addresses at a time, assigning place marks and style templates in bulk; and Movie-Maker: Export Windows Media and QuickTime HD movies, up to 1,920x1,080-pixel resolution. If you've ever been involved in a property dispute, you'll know how acrimonious they can get. Google Earth Pro includes parcel data that definitively defines property boundaries. "Do you really need this? Probably not, as Pro was created with business/enterprise users in mind," writes Broida. "Let's be honest, [Google Earth Pro has] entertainment value that's virtually impossible to measure."
What part of "close and don't show me this again" don't you understand? 3rd week in a row now I've see that crap pop up. I hope this isn't going to be a nightmare like it was with /. beta plaguing everyone.
If you keep clearing your cookies, it will keep popping up. Idiot.
What are we waiting for?
I see that bloody Slashdot Deals stupid posting so many times I just autoclick it away now :-/
Slashdot Valentines Beta Massacre: iT WORKED! The boycotts killed Beta!!
That can only mean they're going to kill it as a money loser.
Just as Google Maps and friends has saved millions of man-hours and probably hundreds of millions of dollars from people not being lost sufficiently wide adoption and awareness of these advanced features may save an immense amount of temporal and fiscal expense.
Common usage combined with other services can, for example, create self-aware communities, allow public input for city planning, resolve boundary arguments, help individuals planning to, for example, install a swimming pool, and provide data for planning crop layouts.And that's just off the top of my very non-expert head. I think the implications of this are far broader than may be immediately recognized.
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
Between this, and the deprecation of Google Maps Engine (http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2015/01/google-maps-engine-deprecated.html), its pretty obvious that Google has decided to exit the enterprise geospatial market. They've never really succeeded in this market; it makes sense to focus engineering efforts where they can succeed.
The prevalence of hyperbole in modern journalism is virtually impossible to measure.
I did a malware scan (3 common engines) on the file and it checks out, the thing works for free.
Slashdot deals is at least as valuable to me as Amazon and e-bay. In fact it has a few added benefits of only display things of relative geekiness that might interest me, rather than Amazon who tend to display every related item i might have ever clicked on in the last 5 years. Also Slashdot deals will show you prices that guarantee you can buy the same item somewhere else for 20% less.
Neither do i disable advertising. Flooding the internet with my inane preference tracking cookies to be stored and backed up on hundreds of servers is the surest way to overwhelm the probabilistic failure rate of raid 6 and force manufactures back to offering 5 year warranties standard. - C'mon people, help keep Slashdot free - Clickit!
parcel data that definitively defines property boundaries.
BOGUS statement.
As soon as I downloaded this I zoomed in on the area
I live in (somewhere in N. Galveston CO. , Texas)
and saw immediately the property lines were wrong.
Not by a small margin either. All property lines along
the road I live along were shifted by offset of around 20 to 30 feet.
A further look at neighboring streets showed similar
offsets.
In the linked article to the story the blog clown stated
this wondrous GM Pro could cheaply solve property disputes (or words to that effect).
Yah, right. Nope. Might cause trouble but not a tool to cheaply determine property boundaries.
Unreliable, therefor useless.
Anyone else care to check theirs? I imagine it varies region to region how useful it is but bottom line if wrong in this area it is most likely wrong in other far flung areas.
Something between the lines jumps out and bites your arm off. Soltan Gris / London
Sadly not Linux.
Where the FUCK is it??? .001% of your revenue??
Seriously, how much would it cost you to produce Linux versions of all your shit?
Here's a pro tip...design your shit to be portable from the start. I can do it and I'm a one man team for fuck sake!
And put GWT debugging support back into the Linux version of Chrome you cheapskate assholes.
you wouldn't need to sign in to use the code or the program.. it's a locally installed application that pulls DATA off the internet.. there's no need to require a login unless someone wants to save their own data to 'the cloud' for access on different computer. just sayin... google finds value in compiling, analyzing, and storing forever, data relating to your use of the application, like everything else they offer for free or not... there is a price to pay regardless.
https://dl.google.com/earth/cl...
I've always wanted to be able to print super detailed gigapixel maps, but not found any up to date tools to do the stitching. It's a pity pro still limits the resolution so much.
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dl.google.com/earth/client/advanced/current/GoogleEarthProWin.exe
The real idiot is someone who assumes that an avid reader of a tech site doesn't know what a cookie is. Idiot.
I totally respect they want to offer tech-centric deals just as much as I'd hope they respect I'm disinterested in them. (and ironically my captcha for this post is "profits")
It says "Mac and PC" (not "Windows PC") - we've been complaining for years that "PC" doesn't mean "Windows PC", looks like Google for once got the message.
When you click through you do get a "GoogleEarthLinux.bin", or at least, I did. (downloaded on x86_64/Arch Linux/Firefox)
I haven't tried it yet, so I don't know yet if it actually WORKS (unlike the previous version of "regular" Google Earth for me) but it looks like they are handing out Linux versions.
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I knew I shouldn't have put my pitchfork and torch away so quickly. Friggin' Google. As much as I love playing with maps, Google can take a long walk off a short pier - I'm not desperate enough for their "product" to mess around with WINE.
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No cookies here and no Javascript. Still, I don't know what popup the OP is talking about *and* I don't get to see Beta. Bliss!
Typical of americans, Google Earth pro, but the pro features are only for USA,
The Mac OS X version is a unsigned binary. On the newer OS X versions you have to go to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy to allow-it to run.
Looks like Google was too cheap to shell $99/year for a OS X Developer account and get a developer key to sign a product they asked $399 for.
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I just wasted 2 hours globe trotting with my mouse
What part of "close and don't show me this again" don't you understand? 3rd week in a row now I've see that crap pop up. I hope this isn't going to be a nightmare like it was with /. beta plaguing everyone.
If you keep clearing your cookies, it will keep popping up. Idiot.
No, it appears to be the kind of cookie they're using. Every time I restart my browsers, I see this advertisement again. Clearly, the cookie is only being set for the session. Also, why the fuck is this not stored in the database, instead of in the cookie? It's trivially easy to associate this with the logged-in userid. Now, this is Slashdot, so odds are good that we can attribute this to incompetence rather than malice. But....
... But they also keep showing this to users (like myself) who have taken them up on their own offer to turn advertising off, which is really fucking stupid. As I wrote elsewhere, 'I probably wouldn't have cared about Slashdot Deals anyway, but now I fucking hate it. It's that asshole creep at the bar that won't leave your friend alone.'
Crumb's Corollary: Never bring a knife to a bun fight.
Seriously, how much would it cost you to produce Linux versions of all your shit? .001% of your revenue??
And the fact that it would produce in return .0000001% of their revenue does not matter?
Or in fact some negative number - it's hard to imagine even a single engineer working for six months could be paid for by the sales from a Linux version.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I see it every week too - no clearing cookies or anything. Just bugs here.
Try Stylish because is very handy for stuff like this. If you use Firefox add this:
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain("slashdot.org") {
div#sitenotice {
display: none !important;
}
}
for Chrome:
div#sitenotice {
display: none !important;
}
I posted a few days ago how everybody is after your phone number this to a Facebook article of picking one out of a crowd. While avoiding it all this time, Google Earth Pro requires it.
Now, Sketchup Pro, please Google. See, the difference between Sketchup Pro for hundreds of dollars and Sketchup Pro for free is that if it's free, people will use it instead of just using Blender. The only value to Sketchup is that it has a simpler interface. Anything created in it that will find its way into any kind of simulation or electronic entertainment will still have to be touched up in another program. Nobody is going to pay hundreds of dollars just to prototype slightly faster, but the demand for simple assets is much greater than the tiny market of architects and designers who currently use it.
I mean, I guess Google could just leave it as-is, and Sketchup can continue to be another not-search offering by Google that goes mostly ignored. But if they want to get away from search then they need to analyze markets more effectively on the demand side. A legion of modders and hobbyist developers are backed into using the whopping grand total of exactly one useful modelling program that doesn't cost your firstborn child and eternal soul to obtain a license for. The fact that Sketchup costs less for having fewer features does not make up for the fact that it is still drastically overpriced. Especially for its lack of features.
Maya. 3DSMax. Blender. Where does Sketchup fit in, under its current pricing?
So, in other words, if I'm having a property dispute especially one involving the court system, I DO want a survey. When court is involved, the person who's being cheap is the one who tends to lose. Ask all those people who thought they were smart enough to defend themselves in court, or who thought the court-provided lawyer was actually going to do anything.
"Google Earth Pro includes parcel data that definitively defines property boundaries."
No, Just no.... I work in GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and I can GUARANTEE that a vast majority of the property lines displayed in the program do not "definitively defines property boundaries". Some may not be far off, some may not be too bad, most will only be in the ball park and some will be horribly off, the only way to be sure one way or another would be a title search and a survey and even then once in a while things can go wrong. Property description is insanely complicated, in my area the property records go back into the 1840s and technically to be sure someone has to trace and map every sale from now back to then. Since that is extremely time consuming most title companies these days only trace it back 40-60 years and then rely on insurance to pick up the tab if the issue exists further back. Most GIS maps don't try to do ANY of that, they grab the tax records or maps if they exist and digitize (scan them, electronically rubber sheet them to a rough geographic base and then draw some digital lines on top of the scans hand drawn ones) them making your average digital property line map at best 5-50' accurate. Even with organizations that go the extra distance and rebuild the parcel layer off of certified orthophotos (3' accuracy for 90% of surveyed points) you're only improving to about 5-10' accuracy. In a very few rare circumstances you may get some parcels where employees actually went out to properties that happened to be surveyed and then you're probably getting sub-centimeter accuracy for about 0.00000000002% of the parcels.
Thank you
Do you expect them to have demographics and traffic count data for the whole world? (I didn't try it so I don't know how they limited the features to USA only, assuming they did)
Shame on Google for including a pre-checked checkbox to download Chrome as part of the package. That's download.com level shady.
Good or bad, your products need to stand alone when there's nothing whatsoever tying them together other than the downloader.
You're special forces then? That's great! I just love your olympics!
I loooove cookies... I love the oreo, I love the chocolate chips... I looove cookies
What do you mean, not that kind of cookies? :p
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(and ironically my captcha for this post is "profits")
I'm firmly convinced the captcha for these is generated from word analysis of the post one is replying to (or the content of one's post if it's available when the captcha is fetched).
Look what the script does. Fix the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. No workie. After a bit of fiddling, add it to ld.so.conf and run ldconfig. At least ldd reports all the libraries are found now*, but the error message doesn't change. I'm guessing it might be looking for a feature in X that isn't there, but I'd expect a more specific error message in that case. Tracing the calls isn't available on this box, and is really taking requirements a little far. Anyhow, google earth is still terra incognita for me. Thanks so much, google.
* oh the joys of shared libraries dedicated to just one program.
Typical whiner. It was a for profit product. If it had been selling in your country, it probably would have been available with the data there as well. But go ahead and pile on because you got something for free that doesn't have everything you wanted.
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Don't bother with WINE - format your HD and install Windows 8! Much better than Linux!
You have been able to get a free license for over a year now. Just sign up for one and select "personal" for the use and you get a free license emailed to you.
So now they have a generic license that you dont have to request.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
for my hobby project of editing videos. So I am happy to hear it now is free and I don't have to rely on my "trial". :)
I took data from Endomondo and imported into google earth pro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdtAub0tKlE
For some reason when I made the movie in Google Earth Pro in 1080p / 50 fps, the track flickered a bit, and also were "double" a few places, I assume the flicker is because of the track getting underground when rendering the movie.
That's it. What's the point?
Windows 8 is a big pile of fail.
The idiot are those who don't understand business. Pop ups = sponsors = free for all of us to see or be here to begin with.