Finally, Google Earth Pro users can also upgrade to the 6.1 version. Major updates include the following: 

All in all, it’s a solid update.. Thus update seems to be lots of little enhancements to make the Google Earth experience better for every user.

If you don’t have Google Earth yet, download Google Earth 6.1 to get started. And as always, if you notice any other changes, please do leave a comment and let us know.

Via GLatlong blog. Thanks Anurag for the image.

We’ve seen lot of cars with built in GPS system. But not one with Google Earth Navigation system built into it. The Audi A8 now comes fully loaded with Google Earth GPS, fitted right into the LCD screen in the car, the Google Earth application will let owners look at 3D satellite imagery, terrain information, and even additional info layers such as Wikipedia articles or images related to a certain location.

Audi A8’s system will also feature Google Maps + Local Search + the ability to link it all with your desktop computer and access the Google Information. To save time, you can simply search for an address on your computer and send it to the car; when you start driving, the car will know where to go . Isn’t that cool now? It’s as if now is the future with Google Technology.

About a month ago, Google released new images for Google Earth and updated the imagery of many locations. Google now wants to change the rhythm, and frequently publish new recordings of Google earth.

Now you don’t have to answer quizzes to know the new locations. Google Earth now has made available a file with all the updated pictures in red. You can grab the file at http://mw1.google.com/mw-earth-vectordb/Imagery_Updates/imagery_updates.kml.

If you have installed Google Earth plug-in you can see the updated areas automatically.

Earlier this year, released Google, the fifth version of Google Earth. New features were, for example, Google Ocean, the integration of Mars and older satellite images. Only a little over two months, Google sun has been integrated. Yesterday evening was to release the next version of Google Earth, which brings no new features, but should work much faster.

Google Earth 5.1 will have one by 25% shorter startup time. Improvements under the hood to make better use of storage memories and the images will load faster. The Google Earth browser plugin is also included on Windows now. ]]> http://googlewatchblog.in/2009/09/google-earth-now-more-faster/feed/ 0 http://googlewatchblog.in/2009/08/india-comes-up-with-a-google-earth-rival-called-bhuvan/ http://googlewatchblog.in/2009/08/india-comes-up-with-a-google-earth-rival-called-bhuvan/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:37:59 +0000 GoogleWatchBlog Team http://igooglewatch.com/?p=642 Google Earth‘s Indian rival is here! Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) took a huge leap into satellite imagery of geographical regions with the launch of `Bhuvan’, India’s mapping application website. Similar to Google Earth or Wikimapia, Bhuvan goes a step ahead. The application allows users to zoom far closer than the aerial view from a chopper.

Here’s is an inside look into Google Earth’s Indian competitor.
Bhuvan is a web-based 3D mapping tool which uses images taken over a year by ISRO’s seven remote sensing satellites, including Cartosat-1 and Cartosat-2.

The application will allow users to have a closer look at any part of the subcontinent barring sensitive locations such as military and nuclear installations. The satellites can capture images of objects as small as a car on a road.

This would provide a user with images having resolution up to 10 m. The degree of resolution showcased is based on points of interest and popularity, but most of the Indian terrain is covered upto at least six meters of resolution with the least spatial resolution being 55 meters.

Like Google Earth, Bhuvan will allow users to view cities and other places of interest looking perpendicularly down or at an oblique angle, with different perspectives.

Features:
- Provides Measurement tools for Horizontal distance, aerial distance and vertical distance
- Provides Shadow Analysis; sets the sun position based on the given time creating shadows and effects the lighting on the terrain
- 2D and 3D image data of Indian Cities, Towns and Villages with information on Soil, wasteland and water resources.
- Bookmark places.
- Population and other factual data about places.

The link to the official website is : http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/

We need to wait and see if it can score higher than Google earth.

After the recent update of the images for Google Earth in June, Google Earth now provides 3 cities in 3D- Prague, Warsaw, Oslo. Google this week has three more cities in 3D for Google Earth publishes. Now you can Oslo, Warsaw and Prague in 3D Earth view.

Checkout a video on how it looks:

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Recently in May Google announced images update to Google earth…. and now there is one more update!! Here are few updated places updated Imagery:

Americas:

- Canada: Kamloops (BC), Fort St John (BC), Surrey (BC),

- USA: Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Champaign County (IL), Bentonville (AR), Harrison (AR), Roswell (GA), Hidalgo County (TX), Willacy County (TX), Greenville (SC), Pierre (SD), several counties in Florida, several counties in Ohio

EMEA:

- France: Finistere, Cotes-d’Armor, Loire-Atlantique, Orne, Oise, Pas-de-Calais, Loiret, Loir-et-Cher, Doubs, Cote-d’Or, Nievre, Cher, Creuse, Puy-de-Dome, Cantal, Haute-Loire, Correze, Dorbogne, Lot, Landes, Gers, Haute-Garonne, Gard, Corsica – Italy: Pisa, Venice

- Spain: Costa Brava, Navarra
- UK: Cambridgeshire, Workington, Swanage
- Sweden: Goteborg
- Senegal: Dakar
- Nigeria: Kaduna
- Saudi Arabia: Mecca
- UAE: Dubai
- Central African Republic: Bangui
- Mauritania: Nouakchott
- Sudan: Port Sudan, Juba
- Eritrea: Asmara

Asia:
- China: Hong Kong, Wulumuqi, Fuzhou, Hegang
- India: Calcutta, Chennai, Patna, Varanasi, Bhiwandi, Veraval, Ambala,
- North Korea: Nampo, Haeju, Kimchaek, Kanggye
- Japan: Mt Fuji
- Indonesia: Makassar
- Vietnam: Phan Thiet
- Tajikistan: Dushanbe
- Pakistan: Jacobabad, Vihari

New 2.5m Spot Imagery for: Iraq, Kuwait, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the western half of Egypt

Updated Terrain: State of Indiana

Google has a new satellite builder in Google earth. This update brings new 3D image updates in Google Earth. Here are following updates:

Updated Imagery:

America:

- USA: Muscatine County (IA), Parts of Champaign County (IL), Parts of Benton County (AR), Parts of Washington County (AR), parts of Washington State, and parts of Michigan

- Mexico: Puebla, Toluca, Puerto Vallarta

- Brazil: Porto Alegre

- French Guiana: Northern Coast

Europe, Middle East, & Africa:

- Great Britain: Large parts of Scotland and considerable amounts of England

- France: Departments of Seine-Maritime, Calvados, Val-d’Oise, Yvelines, Essonne, Seine-et-Marne, Aube, Yonne, Sarthe, Vosges, Territiore de Belfort, Vienne, Haute-Vienne, Charente, Charente-Maritime, Cantal, Aveyron, Aude, Bouches-du-Rhône, Saône-et-Loire, Haute-Savoie, Savoie, Martinique (Caribbean Sea), Mayotte (Indian Sea)

- Italy: Costa Smeralda (Sardegna), Genova (Liguria), Milano (Lombardia), Lago Maggiore (Piemonte/Lombardia)

- Spain: Cádiz

- Switzerland: Engelberg

Asia & Oceania:

- New Zealand: Palmerston

New 2.5m base imagery for: Southern India and Western Paraguay.

New Terrain for: Contra Costa County, Paris, Copenhagen, Dallas, Houston, Jacksonville, Lisbon, Madrid, Memphis, Mexico City, Miami, Minneapolis, Nashville, Orlando, Phoenix, Portland, Sacramento, Sevilla, St Louis, Tampa, and Toronto

If you’re Location is not updated yet stay tuned… Google is on it

Google Maps now* offers a more immersive additional mode: you can open Street Views in full-screen via the top-right expand icon.

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Google has released a new version of the browser plug-ins of the Google Earth API. With the 5.0.11655.6079 version of the plugin, Google Earth API is also released.

One of the major new feature is the support of Google Ocean, since the beginning of February, part of Google Earth is. The new version should be in the next few days will automatically install.

Read Changes in the released notes. ]]> http://googlewatchblog.in/2009/04/google-earth-now-supports-ocean-view/feed/ 0