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Google Earth - 5.1.3533.1731

View satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, geographical content.

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This Version: Not rated (0.0)
Current Version: 5.1.3533.1731
Release Date: 2009-11-18
License: Freeware
Downloads (this version): 13,222
Downloads (all versions): 1,311,657

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Product Description:

Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris, as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, and schools. Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps, and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. With Google Earth you can fly from space to your neighborhood--just type in an address and 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 and even add your own annotations.

What's new in this version:

  • Improved Startup Time. The improvement is most noticeable when users launch the Earth application multiple times.
  • Improved overall rendering performance. Changes include faster atmosphere rendering and using compressed textures whenever possible.
  • Improved Road rendering Performance: Frame rate at places with dense road networks is three times faster than in previous releases.
  • Improved memory utilization in the application.
  • Significantly smoother frame-rate and less stuttering in the application compared to previous releases.
  • Improved performance with large region based network link KML documents. Some of large KML documents are now processed and rendered at more than twice the speed of earlier releases.
  • Improved KML document handling performance. Large regionated KML Image overlays are up to 80% faster than previous releases.
  • Support for KML hint = moon or mars to switch to moon or mars based on kml document.
  • Availability of one installer that installs both the Google Earth application and browser plugin.
  • Desktop Application now works on Windows 7.
  • Users can set the memory cache size up to 1024 MB now.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

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Google Earth Commentary5.1.3533.1731 still crashes 0n 10.4.11 - Version: 5.1.3533.1731, 11/19/2009 09:15AM PST

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bob422
The previous release of 5.1 also crashed. 5.0 works fine. I have no idea what is causing the problem.
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Google Earth CommentaryStill no iPhone GPS Support, Still not 64-bit! - Version: 5.1.3533.1731, 11/18/2009 03:30PM PST

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libertyforall1776
Still no iPhone GPS Support, Still not 64-bit! Is Apple restricting developers from accessing the iPhone GPS from a Mac?

Still a cool app, though. This version includes the Internet-Plugin in the download, and you get the option of a version that auto-updates, and one that does not. FINALLY! ;-)
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Google Earth Troubleshooting ReportBoth recent 5.1 releases - Version: 5.1.3509.4636, 9/23/2009 06:58AM PST

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bob422
Have crashed on my MacBook Pro running 10.4.11. I reverted to the latest 5.0 release in both cases.
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