Google Earth

Google Earth (“From Space to Your Face”) is a geographic information program, Google Earth an imaginary based mapping program. Google earth is virtual globe and Google earth is map. The original name of Google earth was “Earth Viewers”.

Google earth was created by Keyhole Inc. Keyhole Inc was the company acquired by Google in 2004. Google earth provides the images, photos of earth taken through satellite.

Google earth takes the images and photos of the earth using following ways

• Satellite Imagery
• Aerial Photography
• GIS 3D globe

Google earth available in three version, they are as follows

• Google Earth – with limited functionality and a free version
• Google Earth Plus
• Google Earth Pro is used for commercial purpose.

Advantages of Google Earth

• Helps in finding Geographic information
• Using Google earth we can explore places on Earth
• Using street view version we can tour distant cities.
• We can view photo realistic 3D buildings

Features of Google Earth

Google Earth was developed by “Google”.
Google Earth release name “Earthviewer”, present name “Google Earth”.
Operating systems on which Google earth works

• Windows 2000
• XP & Vista
• Mac OS X
• iPhone OS
• Linux

Browsers in which Google Earth works

• Firefox
• Safari 3
• IE6
• IE7

Size of Google Earth “10 MB”.

Google Earth available in 41 following languages.

• Arabic
• Bulgaian
• Catalan
• Chinese (Traditional)
• Chinese (Simplified)
• Croatian
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• English (American)
• English (Britain)
• Filipino
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Greek
• Hebrew
• Hindi
• Hungarian
• Indonesian
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Norwegian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Portuguese (Brazil)
• Romanian
• Russian
• Serbian
• Slovak
• Slovenian
• Spanish
• Spanish (Latin America)
• Swedish
• Thai
• Turkish
• Ukranian
• Vietnamese

Google Earth Versions

• Keyhole Earthviewer 1.0 - June 11th, 2001
• Keyhole Earthviewer 1.4 - 2002
• Keyhole Earthviewer 1.6 - February 2003
• Keyhole LT 1.7.1 - August 26th, 2003
• Keyhole NV 1.7.2 - October 16th, 2003
• Keyhole 2.2 - August 19th, 2004
• Google Earth 3.0 - June 2005
• Google Earth 4.0 - June 11th, 2006
• Google Earth 4.1 - May 9th, 2007
• Google Earth 4.2 - August 23rd, 2007
• Google Earth 4.3 - April 15th, 2008
• Google Earth 5.0 - February 2nd, 2009