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DESCRIPTION
Google Earth gives you a wealth of imagery and geographic information. Explore destinations like Maui and Paris, or browse content from Wikipedia, National Geographic, and more.
Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain, and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
- Fly to your house. Just type in an address, press Search, and you'll zoom right in.
- Search for schools, parks, restaurants, and hotels. Get driving directions.
- Tilt and rotate the view to see 3D terrain and buildings.
- Save and share your searches and favorites.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 5.1.3509.4636:
- New and Updated ImageryMoon in Google Earth Released
- Lunar Rover Game
- Apollo 11 Google Earth Tour
- Apollo 11 Moon Lander Game
- July 22nd Total Solar Eclipse
- EarthURL - Sharing Locations with a Link
- News from Outreach - Crisis in Dafur Update
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| Developer: | Google |
| Downloads: | 645,109 |
| - Version d/l: | 19,163 |
| Education: | Science |
| License: | Free |
| Date: | 22 Sep 2009 |
| Platform: | PPC/Intel |
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| Google Earth User Reviews (131 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Oct 26 2009 |
ANTON52 I no longer see any maps after this update on my good old iMac Flat 800 MHz with NVIDIA GeForce2 MX running 10.4.11 (latest). Before this update I had no problem. Does anybody else out there have this problem?
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| Oct 21 2009 |
ZEEBIE Crashes with every startup. Tried everything, spent hours but no change of behavior. Last version was ok, this one is useless.
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 | Sep 23 2009 |
LIVINGS124 With all of this auto-update garbage that's intrusively installed, why does my outdated version always say it's up to date?
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 | Sep 23 2009 |
SCOTTYO Re: blank white roofs, etc: Recent vintages of GE can display 3D buildings, if someone has made a model of them. There are 2 flavours lately, Photorealistic and Gray. Sounds like you have Gray (and maybe Photorealistic too; most buildings in Tokyo for example, have only gray renderings, but the important ones often have very nice photorealistic renderings) turned on. Look in the Layers list, near the top, for 3D buildings, and uncheck the box (if it's a dash, only one of the two styles is on, and a click will turn it off). It's a very nice feature when you're looking at the big city, but not everywhere has (much of) it, and it slows things down too.
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| Sep 23 2009 |
FOULGER First time I tried in under Snow Leopard - just a Black screen - all favourites lost - dead loss.
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| Oct 29 2009 |
CORPSECORPS No Snow Leopard problems here.
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| Oct 29 2009 |
FOULGER Came right in 10.6.1
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| Sep 11 2009 |
GARY30 Google Earth 5.1.3506.3999 continues with the auto software update nonsense. Plus, on my 17" unibody MBP using the plain old satellite view, the roofs of buildings are mostly rendered in blank white, non-aliased primitive shapes. On tall buildings, you can often see a little bit of the verticals. These are rendered in gray, also with no detail. Just go to the downtown of any city and I see this. Going back to the previous version of Google Earth 5 these surfaces are all rendered correctly--you can see the equipment on the roof, color of the roof, etc. This may be an incompatibility with the GPU or Open GL on my MBP. In any case, it's a step backward as far as I am concerned.
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| Sep 10 2009 |
MACLOVER1.1 We need alternatives, someday Google will be able to rewrite geography.. and we won't really know the details if we have no-one else to turn to. A few years ago I liked Google.. now It scares me just as much as say Microsoft or an huge group, becoming way to influential.
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 | Sep 10 2009 |
BORLOX How to disable the auto-updating: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090424045847496
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| Sep 10 2009 |
PEDRO FARDILHA Hi, thank you for the link. But it's sad that we need to do that, instead of Google doing the right thing and stop with this nonsense. What else do they need to finally realize that most of us don't like the idea of giving them full access to our computers??
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| Sep 10 2009 |
M-RICK there quite more simple to do : Before installing, in ~/Library/Google/ Create a locked GoogleSoftwareUpdate folder and that's it, Google Update will never be able to put it's spyware in here anymore. just like here http://www.mac4ever.com/images/images_actu/47398_744_astuce_faire_taire_google_update.png If it has already installed before, just do the steps has described in MacOS X hints to uninstall Google Update and then do my my trick and that's it. here is a screen capture i made after installing Google Desktop, it has been perfectly installed excepting Google Update http://www.mac4ever.com/images/images_actu/47398_224_astuce_faire_taire_google_update.png For those who can read French, i put it there http://www.mac4ever.com/news/47398/astuce_faire_taire_google_update/
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| Sep 22 2009 |
DRDUL This tip about creating a locked GoogleSoftwareUpdate folder is fantastic! Works like a charm!
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| Sep 9 2009 |
ILGAZ They keep that updater, acting exact same way and making people nuts right? This is it, they are really disconnected from actual users. They can't understand "homo sapiens", actual people uses their software and becomes bugged about it, regardless of how freaking open source it is! They have no clue about human nature. They think being Google and software being open source and free grants them every right. Well, if we compare OS X and Linux desktop usage share, we can see it isn't the deal all the time and our OS/hardware vendor checks for updates WEEKLY by first asking us. Even MS shows 2-3 warning screens before enabling auto update. Ask yourself Google: Are you more important than kernel/OS vendors? Every 2 hours check eh? What are we doing? Heading to space with your freeware? Well, I have seen a 5000 seat company ban every kind of Google software because of that update behavior since they thought they were under some kind of insider attack when that tiny junk was banned by their pro active security solution and kept trying and trying to connect causing more harm/load to network more than a network worm. If we code a software which is open source and connects to google servers each 10 minutes, Google won't send the FBI right? As it is open source you know, they can look at the source!
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| Sep 10 2009 |
MRGLSMRC you complain a lot about high quality free software. if you are such a good programmer why can you redirect the messages that 'phone home' to somewhere else like xxx.0.0.1 like all the other hackers do? and what the hell do you know about homo sapiens? i read some of your rude abusive remarks where you accuse ordinary people of piracy every time you run out of medications! so now you are mad at google too? was jesus unavailable?
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| Sep 10 2009 |
ILGAZ Did I claim piracy when someone "reviews" a commercial software and talks about some features doesn't work right on OS X 10.6 5-10 days _BEFORE_ the launch date? Sure I did. It is way better than claiming someone being an absolute idiot and breaking Apple's industry known draconian NDA policies on purpose of whining on macupdate right? OK, you had Snow Leopard beta seed, protected by Californian and International laws against disclosure of trade secrets and you leaked confidential Apple information for purpose of "this feature doesn't work" whining on Macupdate. Today, I took my pills it seems, have a nice day.
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| Sep 10 2009 |
MRGLSMRC actually you did not take your pills and you are not qualified to explain the law even in your imaginary law school for idiots. apple's nda for snow leopard does not cover discussions of pathfinder behavior, troll. and he was validating my problems under leopard not snow leopard but you went off on a tangent about inferences about whether he was a developer or a pirate without any info about it because you are an angry fool who cannot focus. did you even try google earth before your rant because you complain about the installer and there isn't any installer presently?
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| Jul 23 2009 |
THUS.SPAKE.Z I enjoy using Google Earth but in light of Google's propensity for scarfing up information about one's internet use, I've uninstalled it. Google is a known information vampire. Pfuq 'em and their kind!
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