A new version of Google Earth is released and it contains 4x amount of data it had earlier. Googleblog announced this yesterday.
We got so excited around here about the first anniversary of GoogleEarth that we decided to celebrate a bit early. Beginning today, youcan download a brand new version,Google Earth 4. Running on OS X? Feel the love. Prefer Linux? Ditto.Yes, we’re releasing simultaneously for PC, Mac (universal binary forfull performance on both Intel and PowerPC based Macs) and for thefirst time ever, native support for popular Linux distributions. And weshould say “salut,” “ciao,” “hallo,” and “hola” to our French, Italian,German and Spanish users, because Google Earth is now fully localizedfor those languages in addition to English. This includes a UIlocalized to French, Italian, German, and Spanish, as well as localsearch, driving directions, geo-coding, and unique local informationlayers for those countries.
I remember my blogpost of February,2005 when Google bought Keyhole and started converting it to Google Earth, I was very excited and one of my friend Ankit pointed out that however good it maybe it cant be of any use to people outside US. Here is his comment.
iamGOD Says:
May 2nd, 2005 at 11:49 pmHey Man,
“Keyholeâ€, No use to us, because we are Indians.
Can you fly form Bombay to Kalol…….?
Well KEYHOLE cann’t fly over slums in india and those of kalol.
And BISAG is sleeping ……….. they works only for government….and thiswill take at least 5 (minimum, if they plan) years for government toput all bisag data on web.
5 years.hmmm. Well its done in 1 year and I am happy about that.I can even see my home in new google earth. Below is the image of that.
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Can you see the North Korean missile on it?