Great New Features now available in Google Earth 4.3!

Google Earth 4.3 was released yesterday and you will need to download it to get all the new features. Some of the new features include:

• Street View inside Google Earth – as already available for some areas of Google Maps. (see screenshot of street view below).

• Imagery Dates - You will now be able to easily see the dates when imagery was taken for most imagery (but, not all - simply because the date data isn't always available from the many imagery providers delivering to Google).
• New navigational controls - New features enabling better ways to look around at 3D buildings and 3D terrain using new navigation gadgets and your mouse or keyboard.
• Day/Night Lighting - Real-time sunlight lighting option. Time slider control of the sun position. Expect a more realistic looking view of Earth from space. (See screenshots below of sunrise day and night over the Earth.)

 

• More 3D buildings, faster loading - Faster loading 3D building models, and faster rendering as well. Denvr (See screenshot below of 3D building layer with day and night layer on show sunrise – this would be great for teaching time zones).

• Flash Support for Mac - That's right, you'll now be able to play YouTube videos and put other flash apps inside Google Earth placemarks just like on Windows.
• Switching to Sky Faster - Switching between Google Sky and Google Earth modes will be much faster.

Thanks to the Google Earth blog for all this information and for this great You Tube Video showing all the new 4.3 features. Well worth checking out.

Comments

[Ian Stuart]

thanks for that Ollie