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Google Earth Gets a New Home On the Web (arstechnica.com)
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.
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.
Kriston
Instructions not clear, stuck in the Delta Quadrant.
#DeleteFacebook
Targeting Chrome as the only supported browser has become possible thanks to Firefox's decreasing market share. 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 instead. Now Chrome has 50% or more of the browser market, including a significant share of the mobile market.
I think we're just going to see more of this happening. It'll be like the "Best Viewed With Netscape Navigator" and "Best Viewed With Internet Explorer" days of the 1990s, except there won't be an alternative. There will only be, "Viewed Only With Chrome". As more and more sites require Chrome, even fewer people will have a reason to use Firefox. Firefox's already small usage share will continue to drop, perhaps even until it effectively reaches 0% of the market.
The saddest part is that it really didn't need to be like this. Firefox was a major player at one time. People liked using it, more than they liked using Chrome. But then the Firefox devs had to throw it all away! It hasn't just hurt their product; it has hurt the web as a whole.
I'll never understand why people want all this "infotainment" shit in their cars.
Why can't you just **pay attention** and not play with computers while you're driving?
"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."
I'm never, ever going to install their cancerware. And I'm scared by how many alleged "geeks" don't have the slightest clue that they are installing malware/spyware.
Last time I used the satellite view I noticed the cloud cover appeared to be updated in real time. Has anyone else noticed this?
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
How do I view historic aerial photos and historic streetview photos in this new Google Earth????
chrome only, uh yeah no thanks.
"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.
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.
Even a clock is right two times a day.
His solution isn't open source so I'm assuming they got permission. Why would they need a host file in an infotainment system? Did I just get trolled? Whooosh? Who knows anymore. I'm gonna go play league of legends and curse out my team mates for feeding.
Most people just use whatever browser their OS comes with. In the case of Android this is Chrome.
Just look at the marketshare of Edge.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon what's the difference? All steal money from devs and control with walled gardens.
It works fine now. Don't touch it, you'll break something.
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.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I wondered the same thing and I have no idea, as I don't think it any internet access. But -- it's very real. It's in the copyright screen.
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.
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.
are you fucking kidding me?
Photo(shop) or it didn't happen.
#DeleteFacebook
It would be more accurate to say "a new home in Chrome."
Maybe one day Google will give a toss about supporting other browsers.
What I need, what I really need, is to pin more bloated manatee apps to my browser, so they can all step on one another for in-app CPU time (which never works as well because THE BROWSER IS NOT AN OS) and can all crash at once.
Great move, google! I guess the massive Exodus of clue and experience leavesâ just the millennial app stackers left like everywhere else eh?
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?
Take Nobody's Word For It.
We must summon APK to learn more.
HOSTS APK AdBlock
HOSTS APK AdBlock
HOSTS APK AdBlock
There, that should do it.
I dunno if you're trolling or not, but awhile ago I remember he was arguing with an AC and APK said, "I KEEP THE WORLD SAFE FROM MALWARE AND ADS, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!" or something along those lines and the AC replied back, "assuming you're too autistic to operate a motor vehicle you will never interact with my software but millions do". I wonder if he's catching some high level trolling from a Honda software engineer lol.
The reason to use Google Earth instead of Google Maps is it runs natively on your computer.
By making it run in a browser they're eliminating the advantage.
RIP Google Earth.
No way...