Google Earth Version 4

Yesterday, a new release of Google Earth, Google Earth 4, became available. This version offers a significant high-resolution imagery update that increases the index of high-resolution imagery by 4 times, making high-resolution imagery available for more than one third of the world’s population. This database will also be soon be accessible in Google Maps. In addition, Google Earth has a more streamlined user interface and new tools that enable the creation and display of 3rd party and user-generated content. More buildings are now textured, which brings a new level of realism to the product. Google Earth is now available not just for Windows and Mac, but now, for the first time, Linux as well. With another Google product, Google SketchUp, users can create textured buildings for visualization in Google Earth and the Google 3D Warehouse. Time to upgrade!