Google Earth - 5.1.3506.3999

Product Description:

Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris, as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, and schools. Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps, and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. With Google Earth you can fly from space to your neighborhood--just type in an address and zoom right in, search for schools, parks, restaurants, and hotels. Get driving directions, tilt and rotate the view to see 3D terrain and buildings, save and share your searches and favorites and even add your own annotations.

What's new in this version:

e've made a lot of adjustments under the hood, like improving memory utilization so we can show more buildings, layers, and user content. We improved our shaders (that's graphics-speak for small programs that run inside your graphics processor) to make the atmosphere draw faster. We also worked to reduce stuttering (known as frame drops) to provide an even smoother experience as you fly around the globe. When we draw imagery, we now use compression technology to use less memory and graphics resources. We know that waiting for a program to start-up can be really frustrating, so we improved our start-up time by 25%. In our Google Earth API (which allows developers to include Google Earth right in their websites), we have made API calls significantly faster, which means that our developers can now do even more.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel

Mac OS X 10.5 PPC

Mac OS X 10.4 Intel

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

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File Size: 24.3M








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Google Earth Plug-in - 5.1.3506.3999

Product Description:

The Google Earth Plug-in and its JavaScript API let you embed Google Earth, a true 3D digital globe, into your web pages. Using the API you can draw markers and lines, drape images over the terrain, add 3D models, or load KML files, allowing you to build sophisticated 3D map applications. If you have an existing Maps API site, you can 3D-enable your page with as little as one line of code.

What's new in this version:

The Google Earth Plug-in is now available as part of the Google Earth desktop client installer on Windows.

Startup time is significantly improved, especially for users that load Earth API sites multiple times.

Overall plugin performance has been improved; see the Google Earth Release Notes for more details.

Earth API performance on Windows is significantly improved.

(Issue 59) Fixed a bug that caused placemarks in interval and view-based refresh network links to be duplicated upon user interaction.

(Issue 233) Features should now be completely removed after their containers are removed.

(Issue 108) The Google Earth Plug-in should now respect browser focus and blur on Windows and GEWindow.focus and GEWindow.blur now behave as expected. Note that this bug is still present on Mac.

(Issue 131) Icon headings should now behave as expected, and consistent with the Google Earth desktop client.

(Issue 147) Fixed a bug where certain KML features would not appear in the plugin view until the user moused over the plugin window.

(Issue 139) Implemented a workaround for a layout bug in Internet Explorer 7 and 8 that caused improperly sized balloons.

(Issue 95) Google Earth layers such as LAYER_BORDERS should no longer prevent mouse events from being triggered.

(Issue 310) The navigation control should now behave correctly when set to VISIBILITY_AUTO and positioned at a non-default location.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel

Mac OS X 10.4 Intel

Screenshots:

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