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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.

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 5.0.11733.9347: Version 5.0.1:
  • 3D Buildings: OpenGL mode performance is improved. Buildings are streamed in smoother, and low memory situations are handled better.
  • Tours: Make flyto and tour paths smoother by fixing several cases for jitters and unexpected jumps in camera path. Improve tour creation so that the tour path has smooth interpolation. On pause, open balloons are left open instead of closing them. Support generating tours from nested folders of placemarks.
  • Collada Models: Enhance collada model handling to work when Multiple resources associated with same model. Improve handling of animated textures on the models.
  • Pro Movie Maker: Fix movie maker to work well in presence of animated water surface. Fix holes seen in high resolution movies. Fix bugs in creating large AVI movies. Fix a crash while recording movies. Fixed high resolution movie creation in cases where it would distort view.
  • Fix installation failure on 64 bit linux machines related to linking against wrong version of libssl.
  • Improved culling of objects near poles.
  • Fix the case where Earth kept continuously updating after a tour was finished.
  • Fix handling of drag and drop in left menu between folders.
  • Remove occasional spurious scrollbars in balloons.
  • Fix holes in high resolution movies and printing. Fix tears in high resolution image save and print when animated water was in view.
  • Fix a crash in switching to Mars from photo view.
  • Fix Mars atmosphere for some graphics cards so that it shows up with red color instead of blue now.
  • Show appropriate historical imagery tickmarks when zoomed way in.
  • Fix cases that let sound continue playing even after a balloon was closed or tour was paused.
  • Fix text clustering when eye is below water.
  • Fix a crash on shutdown.
  • Fix issues with handling altitude modes in tags below and above water.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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Developer:Google
Downloads:607,092
  - Version d/l:13,769
Education:Science
License:Free
Date:08 May 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
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Jun 5 2009

ERIC WOEHLER  Current version (re-)installs the Keystone software that phones home. If I delete all the keystone crap (ie phone home software), GE crashes on startup, so I guess Google wants to know everything about you... suggest not installing this version  
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May 10 2009
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PENGUIRL  I installed v5.0 and uninstalled the updater, however it seemed buggy. Since I don't want to continuously uninstall the updater with every update, and Google hasn't yet relented on their totalitarian approach to updating, I am going back to v4. It's rather sad when a software company's userbase nearly unanimously says they don't want a particular "feature" but the developers continue to force it on the users.

And what is with these crazy version numbers? Are they cranking out dozens of new versions a day, thus requiring such long version numbers?  
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May 9 2009
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FORMICA  I agree. The latest version of Google Earth CALLS HOME EVERY TWO HOURS! What freakin' software could be updated that frequently? I am UNINSTALLING EARTH AND EVERY OTHER GOOGLE APP ON MY SYSTEM UNTIL THIS COMPANY REVERSES THEIR RECENT MEGALOMANIACAL WAYS.  
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May 9 2009
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BURGEN  still installs crap  
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May 8 2009

CED  The "GoogleSoftwareUpdate" is still installed in this new version. Who said "Don't be evil" ?  
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May 8 2009

KLAGRECA  Interesting. I have the "Google Updater" installed and it's not informing me of this new version of GEarth. If it can't do it's job, what good is it???  
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+3

May 8 2009

BRUCEG  Crashes upon launch. The latest releases for Goggle Earth 5.0 seem to be crap. In the past, I had no trouble running Goggle Earth on my G4 with Dual 1.25Ghz CPU. The latest version either crash or leave artifacts on my Apple Display.  
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Apr 29 2009

ERIC WOEHLER  There is a VERY good article on removing the Background Updater application at

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20090424045847496&query=google%2B

a lot of information is there on the various files to delete and it is all well explained.

I also posted a link previously to the Google Earth Plugin Uninstaller:

http://earth-api-samples.googlecode.com/files/GoogleEarth-Plugin-Uninstaller.dmg

and for interest, check out the extensive comments about the plugin at:

http://groups.google.com/group/google-earth-browser-plugin/browse_thread/thread/146882feca2788c3/951a4533372ba8ce#951a4533372ba8ce

cheers to all

E  
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May 8 2009

ILGAZ  It doesn't change how rude Google has become lately. Their insist of running a root owned application every 2 hours should give clue how unhealthy thinking, megalomaniac people runs there.

Even $1400 Adobe CS4 checks for updates if it is running, who the hell they think they are?  
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+5

Apr 29 2009

VIRTUALRUFFY  Background App is annoying problem. I will only use version 4 until this crap is fixed! Send google a nasty email about it!

Until it's fixed send and chant: Hell no! We won't download! Google 5 has got to go!  
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Apr 29 2009

MACBIRD  Macmini 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo

2GB RAM OS 10.5.6

After reading the other comments I decided not to update. I then tried to launch my currently installed version 5.0. It wouldn't work! So I trashed it and went back to version 4.3 and that works just fine. Guess I'll stay with that one forever.  
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Apr 29 2009

BRUCEG  Crashes on startup using Macintosh G4 with Dual 1.25 Ghz CPU.  
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