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Downloads:
137,744
- Operating Systems:
Mac OS X 10.5, Mac OS X 10.4
- Additional Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.4/10.5
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
July 15, 2008
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Publisher's description of Google Earth 4.3.7284.3916
The idea is simple. It's a globe that sits inside your Mac. You point and zoom to anyplace on the planet that you want to explore. Satellite images and local facts zoom into view. Tap into Google search to show local points of interest and facts. Zoom to a specific address to check out an apartment or hotel. View driving directions and even fly along your route. Version 4.3 adds day and night lighting, Street View, more 3D models, and faster rendering speeds. Version 4.3.7284.3916 includes unspecified updates.
Editor's review of Google Earth 4.3.7284.3916
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- "Google the Planet"
- Version reviewed: Google Earth 4.3.7284.3916
The latest version of Google Earth makes it, indubitably, the only free mapping app worth considering. Accessible enough for casual users, Google has been added features that make it a necessity for those whose topographic desires are more serious.
Most of the interface's real estate displays a rendering of the globe, which slowly zooms in on a satellite image of your destination once you've keyed it in. The control panel has changed and is now translucent and sits unobtrusively in a corner of the map. The new diagonal movement control and flexible north anchor, so you can re-orient the map, are useful additions.
The Layers, Places and Search panes are now a left-side navigation bar, and have more options for determining what information appears on the map. Everything from roads and restaurants to crime statistics can be displayed; subcategories and individual items can be unchecked to show only what you need. Google's driving directions are incorporated, and the user community has produced several nifty mods, including historical maps. There's also integration with Google's 3-D rendering program SketchUp, so you can design a building and see it in a real-life setting.
The only downside to the program is that it can consume a large amount of RAM, so as the developer notes, older machines might experience performance issues. But everyone else is bound to love Google Earth, both as an entertaining novelty and an informational tool.
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User reviews of Google Earth 4.3.7284.3916
- Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 44 votes
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Version: Google Earth 4.3.7284.3916
"Still learning how natvigate"
Pros: Easy to access !
Cons: None so far.
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Version: Google Earth 4.3.7284.3916
Pros: easy to use
Cons: don't work all the time
Summary: on a whole I like this program it
s fun to use and ease my son likes it also he uses it for school !!! -
Version: Google Earth 4.3.7284.3916
"new sites not shown on Google. Poor to say the leas.t"
Pros: Not much when new structures of large size are not shown after five years or more. The factors I have given are not arguable.
Cons: Already described
Summary: Not up to date, at least 5 years old of central Manchester in the Eastern sector. I worked at an old site in East Manchester which five years ago was going through change with the foundations of a new building going up beside the old one. The new bu... read more >>
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Version: Google Earth 4.3.7284.3916
"good graphics but still old!"
Pros: much quicker than previous version and has cameras for australia and some of europe
Cons: the scilly isles have vanished thanks to the us navy! the data with the time clock is false + no camera for street view in uk at present!
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Version: Google Earth 4.3.7284.3916
"This version is better than the older one ...excellent"
Pros: It's easy to use and I can see my parent's house that far away from my home.
Google Earth can help to identify the location we want to.Cons: I need the new earth map image when I launch Google Earth, or some time I need the real time image, but I still can't do it.
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