Google Earth 4.3 with better navigation is out
Google has updated its Google Earth mapping application, offering a 3D navigation system which the company claims is smoother and more natural for users. “Google Earth is a 3D application, but we realised that a lot of our users never quite got the hang of using the tilt feature to navigate around 3D features like mountains and buildings,” product manager Peter Birch wrote in a blog posting. “Not only that, but even for expert users, if you tried to get down to the ground and navigate at street level, navigation was cumbersome and confusing.” Among the new navigation tools in Google Earth 4.3 is a modified zooming feature. When users zoom in from a full-Earth view, the 3D map view will zoom in normally.
As the view zooms closer to the ground, however, the perspective tilts in a manner that Birch likens to that of a person parachuting to the ground. When the zoom level reaches ground, the user is surrounded by the 3D landscape in a view similar to that of a 3D game. Google has also added a Street View feature to the Earth application. The controversial application allows users to navigate by way of actual street photos. Google first introduced the feature in its online Maps application last year. Google Earth 4.3 will also sport improved lighting for its 3D view, as well as better rendering software designed to help the landscapes load faster. Other updates include an image acquisition feature which lists the date when landscape images were taken, as well as an improved language pack that adds a further 12 translations.
Source: Vnunet
Comments(44)
Sounds good, I’ll have to give it a try. I’ve always liked Google Earth but you can find yourself losing a whole afternoon when you start looking around it.
It can take me to kathmandu, but it cant take me to see niko in liberty city. seems kinda pointless dont you think?
So much for scene news, but this is a good app.
this program is, depending on the satellite coverage ridiculously detailed. i can spot stains on our garden chairs <3 thx for the post
How do you zoom in to something that small because i zoom into my house and its just a blur if i zoom in to far
downloaded the pro cracked 1 ages ago
When u dll the cracked Pro version, do u actually get the “Pro” features? Doesnt Google stream the images from the internet (from google) thus u would have to log in for the functions, or are the images of the EARTH identical to the free version, and u just get a different interface (with the ability to export images/compressed videos)?
@5 – If you zoom in too far and all you see is a blurry image it means that there are no high resolution pictures for your area. There’s nothing you can do about it. Google updates the satellite pictures they use regularly, slowly adding more high-resolution images. They tend to put a priority on larger urban areas; New York has high enough resolution to see people, while where I live only has high enough resolution to see cars. Nothing you can do but wait.
there r some places in Sidney that u can even see the licance plates of cars. its really amazing. people r eating lunch in their garden and getting laid with each other
u can see all these stuffs in sidney.
its uses full features
go to mininova type google earth, click for most seeds at top its there,
http://www.mininova.org/tor/1179286
Yea! Your back!!!
Google Earth… a terrorists best friend.
“I’m sexually deprived and depressed, and my ‘religion’ makes our women dress up like mummies. What can I blow up today in the free world?”
@15 Joe, you are the absoluite epitomy of why Americans are hated by the rest of the world.
Your ignorance shines so brightly, you barf up absolute crap with no glimmer of intelligence behind it.
American women dress like hags too, baggy pants, thongs cramed up their fat a$$ and stretched up their sweaty backs so you can see the skids while they waddle their fat butts donw the road to fat burgers for another cheeseburger & shake. Whenever I am in teh US, I wonder how anyone can bang one of these hippos you call women.
Get out of your mom’s house and see the world, you’d soon understand that Fat Bottom girls DON’T make the world go ’round.
on the topic
anyone knows if 4.2 pro crack works on 4.3 version ?
@17, no harm in trying mate.
Nice improvements for GEarth
now how about you posting
Armin Van Buuren- Imagine-CD-2008-cHuNkY ? ;;)
or even Armin Van Buuren-Imagine-CD-2008-TGX I don’t mind
site go down again? i couldnt connect for a few hours again hmmm…
yeah post some decent trance music..
its sYdney SYDNEY ffs
Why get the pro Version if the free version does all you need?also doesent google block any pirated pro versions after awhile?
@12
How many Adware did you hide in this????
Click-click-click… where have I seen that before?
@15 Average Joe.
free world? you gotta be joking. your free world is so much dependent on the jewish lobby and corporate greed you could not even imagine, red neck!
that’s your fre world, beavis!
maybe some of you guys can help me, for some reason with google earth and other apps like it i cannot see ANYTHING, i have a nvidia card that is supported, newest direct X, all the specs required and the newest flash. still i get nothing beside a black world with an outline!?!? drive me nuts b/c i love this app. any suggestions?
#9
It’s Sydney not Sidney
If you want to check it out go here to see people sun baking on Bondi Beach (Australia’s busiest Beaches)
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bondi+Sydney+NSW,+Australia&jsv=107&ie=UTF8&ll=-33.891099,151.278053&spn=0.000117,0.000314&t=h&z=22
That’s at zoom 22 I’m only seen Picture up to zoom 23 on google earth.
@16
fat girls need love too, they just dont get it from me.
At least USA girls *have a choice* in the matter, unlike some countries where women cant even walk around alone. When they are allowed outside, they have to cover their entire body and faces. Nice society you got there.
Case and point, the girl that got raped by two guys, yet she gets jailed for having intercourse with someone other than her husband.
@31 that phuked up..
So how old or recent are the images?
wasn’t “fat girls need love too” a song by barry white ?
33
I “THINK” except for breaking news
(New Orleans/Fossett/Tsunami) most of them average 6mth-1year
There are definitely areas that SHOULD have had better resolutions by now (most of Australia) but are just waiting for the price for those areas to come down.
@33:
Not that recent, at least for LA. I’ve been checking Google Earth on and off for a while in hopes they’ll update it, to no avail. I know they’ve updated at least once in the past year, because I’ve only been living here for a year and my car shows up on the map. But when I look around town, a lot of shops and such that have changed in the past few months haven’t been updated on the map.
Rest assured though, in five years this will be a really badass app. Buildings with textures? On-the-fly updating anywhere? An even creepier level of zoom? We can only wait and dream.
oryt thanks guys.
Just give me better resolution!
@16 – facelikeaTWAT
Hater!
I wish someone would hurry up and combine this with a video game à la outrun unlimited. I want to race around my town in a koenigsegg
“Fat bottom girls you make the rocking world go round”
LOL.
cool
anyone have a cracked version of GOOPS ? gps through google earth with goops http://goopstechnologies.com
You can use GooPs Free.