Google Earth

Google Earth  is the program allowing to see the surface of the planet Earth in three-dimensional representation. The image is made of the pictures taken from the satellite in very high resolution. Unlike an analog of Google Maps service is presented in the form of the separate program loaded on the computer that gives the chance to the user not to spend big quantity of traffic and to use additional opportunities  — in particular more user-friendly interface.

Google Earth 6

In the sixth version of the application of Google Earth trees began to be displayed in a three-dimensional type. Full integration of Street View, reported in the official blog became one more essential innovation. According to developers, so far they "planted" more than 80 million trees - from the Japanese maple to a cocoa tree - in Athens, Berlin, Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Tokyo. A number of the nature protection organizations which help to recreate the most exact model of the forests and parks participates in work. To see trees it is necessary to include a layer with 3D - objects.

Thanks to full integration of Street View the user can without being interrupted fly from space to a door of the house. The Street View service was for the first time attached to Google Earth in 2008, however since then only allowed to look at photos when choosing a certain place. Besides, in Google Earth 6 work with archive images is improved. Now, in the presence of the historical picture of area at which the user looks he will be notified on it in status bar in the bottom of the screen. It is possible to download the application free of charge on the official site.

Interesting Facts

Изображение на кукурузном поле в штате Орегон (USA) vyvolneno fans browser Firefox in 2006.

• Service cannot provide information on some data. In particular it is about location of military bases and the startegicheski important state objects  — it is made of reasons of "anti-terrorist security".
• Service not only gave the chance to users to see something new, but also to show something unusual. The project performed by group of admirers of the free software from the USA can be an example. The Firefox browser character occupying more than 4 thousand square meters poyavivitsya on a corn field in the American State of Oregon in 2006. The image in honor of 50 million downloaded copies of "a fiery fox" was created.

You See Also

• Google Maps
• Apple Maps
• Here HD Live Map
• Yandex.Maps, Yandex. Navigator
• Maps.Me
• Navitel Navigator
• Roskosmos: Digital Earth