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Google Earth 6.0.2

Door redactie op 30 maart 2011 - 14:03

Google Earth 6.0.2 is verschenen. Dit is een onderhoudsupdate voor Googles gratis software om satellietbeelden te bekijken. Heel veel kleine en grote fouten en crashes worden verholpen in deze uitgave. Details kunt u hieronder lezen.

Google Earth 6.0 is gratis te downloaden voor Windows XP, Vista en 7 en Mac OS X 10.5 en hoger en Linux. Er is ook een mobiele versie van Google Earth voor Android-telefoons en iPhone en iPad.

De complete release notes:
* Issues Fixed with Desktop Client:
- Fixed a problem where we were over fetching certain kml layer data and running into issuing of using large amounts of memory and slowness during zooming in.
- Fixed an issue of ruler tool disappearing. In 6.0 beta, when measuring using the path tool, if you break to add a place-mark then you go back to the path and click "save" the path and ruler tool disappears all together.
- Fixed an issue with incorrectly measuring long distances. Improved navigation in Street View inside buildings.
- Fixed a crash with elevation profile if there was empty gx:value node in KML.
- Optimized amount of terrain and imagery data fetched while viewing photo overlays.
- Fixed an occasional crash while viewing 3D buildings. Fixed broken fly-to links within local kml files.
- Fixed an issue where new place-marks added were with absolute altitude instead of being clamped to ground.
- Fixed an issue where the title for panoramio pictures no longer appeared when hovering over panoramio icons with your mouse if scale legend was enabled.
- Fixed an issue when there was occasionally a missing wall in 3D buildings.
- Optimized amount of data fetched in Street View.
- Fixed an issue where tilt by holding “shift” and moving the scroll wheel only worked in one direction on Mac.

* Issues Fixed in Earth Browser Plug-in:
- Fixed a crash when getNormalStyleUrl was called on a StyleMap referencing a non-existent Style.
- Fixed some issues in using plug-in on https sites.
- Fixed functionality of disabling ground level navigation through API.

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Google Earth 6.0

Door redactie op 30 november 2010 - 08:11

Google Earth 6.0 is uitgekomen. Dit is een grote update voor Googles gratis software om satellietbeelden te bekijken. De beruchte Street View (sommige mensen - met name in Duitsland - wilden hun huis of zichzelf van de foto's verwijderd hebben) is nu helemaal geïntegreerd in Google Earth.

Verder is het mogelijk om 3d-bomen te tonen in Google Earth en zijn de historische beelden makkelijker te navigeren. Ook kunt u nu in plaats van rond te vliegen door een gebied, rondwandelen met beide benen op de grond.

Tevens zijn diverse kleine en grote verbeteringen doorgevoerd en problemen opgelost. Google Earth 6.0 is niet meer beschikbaar voor Windows 2000 en Mac OS X 10.4. Mensen die deze oudere besturingssystemen gebruiken zijn aangewezen op Google Earth 5.2.

Ten slotte is de Google Earth plugin gewijzigd. Google Earth 6.0 is gratis te downloaden voor Windows XP, Vista en 7 en Mac OS X 10.5 en hoger en Linux. Er is ook een mobiele versie van Google Earth voor Android-telefoons en iPhone en iPad.

De complete release notes:

New features in Google Earth 6

  • Integrated Street View: In Google Earth 6, the Street View experience is now fully integrated. You can enter Street View either by dropping pegman in navigation controls or by zooming in all the way to ground level on places that have Street View.
  • 3D Trees:Google Earth now has trees. You can enable trees by turning on the check-box next to the Trees layer under the 3D buildings layer folder. You can see trees in several places, and we will add trees to more places over time.
  • Easy to use historical imagery:When you fly to an area where historical imagery is available, the date of the oldest imagery will appear in the status bar at the bottom of the screen. If you click on this date, you’ll instantly be taken back in time to view imagery from that time period.
  • Ground-level navigation: In Google Earth 6, in addition to flying around features, you can now walk on the ground to explore either 3D buildings and trees or Street View imagery.
  • 3D Measurements in Google Earth Pro:In addition to measuring distances and areas on the ground, you can now measure heights and widths of 3D building and distances from buildings to the ground.

Other changes in Google Earth 6

  • Tour Recorder Improvements:With Google Earth 6, the tour recording feature has been improved in several ways. The tour recorder now incorporates the activation of Sunlight, Street View, and Historical Imagery modes into the recorded tour. Additionally, the quality of the recording has been significantly improved, including better motion fidelity and better synchronization with sound recording.
  • Earth on PowerPC Mac:We are discontinuing support for Google Earth builds that work on PowerPC Macs. Users of PowerPC macs can still use the Google Earth 5.2 version.
  • Earth on OS X 10.4:We are discontinuing support for Google Earth builds that work on 10.4 version of Mac OS X. Users of this version of Mac OS X can still use Google Earth 5.2 version.
  • Earth on Windows 2000:We are discontinuing support for Google Earth builds that work on Windows 2000. Users of Windows 2000 can still use the Google Earth 5.2 version.
  • Linux Builds:Google Earth Linux binaries are now based on the Linux Standard Base. This improves the compatibility of Google Earth on different Linux distributions, but requires users to have Linux Standard Base installed on their system. If your Linux system does not have LSB, please install it using apt, yum, smart or up2date. As a side effect of moving to LSB, joysticks are currently unsupported.

Issues Fixed

  • Addressed issues related to slow internal browser and balloon performance
  • Addressed issues related to broken images in balloons seen in Earth 5.2.
  • Linux now handles KML in locales where the radix separator isn’t “.”.
  • Linux fixes for Flash-induced crashes.

Google Earth Plug-in and API Changes

  • Updated API version 1.007
  • New class KmlViewerOptions, to set global render state (Historical Imagery, StreetView, and Sun)
  • Added ability to enable/disable street view in GENavigationControl
  • Added ability to enable/disable automatic transition to ground level view in GEOptions
  • Added ability to enable/disable 3d tree rendering through new layer LAYER_TREES
  • Added altitudeOffset functionality to KmlLinearRing and KmlLineRing. This allows ability to set altitude for all vertices through a single function call.
  • Added ability to enable/disable building selection through mouse input in GEOptions
  • Added ability to enable/disable building highlight through mouse input in GEOptions
  • Added copyAsLookAt() and copyAsCamera() conversion to KmlAbstractView
  • Improved performance on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
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Google Earth 5.2

Door redactie op 17 juni 2010 - 09:06

Google Earth 5.2 is vrijgegeven door Google. In deze versie van de gratis software om satellietbeelden te bekijken zijn enige nieuwe eigenschappen toegevoegd. Zo is de ingebouwde browser-functie verbeterd en kunnen bijvoorbeeld bepaalde Garmin-bestanden geïmporteerd worden. Ook de Google Earth Plugin is aangepast.

Google Earth is verkrijgbaar voor Windows XP, Vista en 7 en Mac OS X en Linux.

De complete release notes:

  • Improved embedded browser functionality: Better integration of embedded browser with Google Earth Application.
  • Track and Multitrack in Google Earth: A track allows you to create one visible object in Google Earth (either a Point icon or a Model) that moves over time between multiple positions. Using the time slider, you can animate position and orientation of an object and show a line tracing the path. A multitrack is a collection of tracks. You can create Track and Multitrack by authoring KML documents or by importing your GPS data (from a number of GPS receivers or file formats such as GPX) into Google Earth.
  • Elevation Profile in Google Earth: You can see elevation profile of a line-string or track in Google Earth. It plots the elevation profile, speed, and associated extended data (for example, heart rate) in a KML file.
  • Added file import types: NMEA (.log and .nmea), Garmin GDB, Garmin Training Center, and Ozi Explorer files can now all be read. Garmin fitness extensions are now read from GPX. Extended data for Elevation Profile and Track is handled when available.

Changes for Google Earth Plug-in 5.2

  • Enhanced Time support:
    • ability to toggle Historical imagery in Google Earth Plug-in (#235)
    • ability to create timestamps and timespans (#177).
    • ability to toggle time UI (#202)
    • ability to set plug-in’s clock rate. (#208, #143, #381, #419, #396)
    • ability to set the plug-in’s virtual time/clock (#104)
    • Improved accessors:
      • getUrl
      • getComputedStyle (#392)
      • getElementbyUrl
      • getElementbyId (fixed #60)g
      • getElementbyType
      • getElementsByStyleUrl
      • Access to Balloon Content
      • Ability to get balloon content using getBalloonDescription, getBalloonHtml, and getBalloonHtmlUnsafe (#16) (#97).
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Google Earth 5.1

Door redactie op 14 april 2010 - 14:04

In Google Earth 5.1 zijn voornamelijk fouten opgelost die in de grote update naar versie 5.0 zijn geslopen (toen de oceaan en Mars zijn toegevoegd). Ook zijn de grafische prestaties en de opstarttijd van Google Earth verbeterd en is het geheugengebruik verminderd. Bovendien is Google Earth geschikt gemaakt voor Windows 7. Ten slotte is het predikaat 'beta' verwijderd: Google Earth 5.1 is dus een officiële, stabiele uitgave.

De complete release notes:

  • fixes to icon style heading
  • fixed labels in Pro hi-res printing
  • honor default layer visibility for enterprise databases
  • getKML now allows fetching of arbitrarily long strings of KML (Google Earth API)
  • added https support for enterprise API (Google Earth API)
  • fixed region fade-extent bug as reported here:

    http://http://code.google.com/p/earth-api-samples/issues/detail?id=329

  • fixed issue with placemarks flashing in region-based network links as reported here:

    http://code.google.com/p/kml-samples/issues/detail?id=310

  • fixed crash-on-exit bug
  • PhotoOverlay now derived from kmlOverlay instead of kmlFeature (kmlPhotoOverlay.getColor() is now working) (Google Earth API)

Additionally, with this release the following changes have been made:

  • removal of "beta" label from Google Earth clients
  • bundling of Google Earth browser plug-in with Mac installer
  • added Intel-only Mac installer package
  • 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.
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