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Google Earth Pro Now Free?
- emilburzo 12y agoGoogle Earth Pro features: https://support.google.com/earth/answer/189188?hl=en https://support.google.com/earth/answer/189188?hl=en available only for windows/mac
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- cjensen 12y agoI love Google Earth, but it hasn't been updated since 2013. The Mac binary isn't signed so it doesn't even run on modern OSX[1]. Has Google abandoned Google Earth? [1] Unless you know how to work around that, which the average user doesn't.
- chippy 12y agoThey seem to have abandoned separate but similarly named Google Earth Engine also... I wonder what's next.
- FreakyT 12y agoIt's a shame they haven't updated it, but I guess the WebGL-based "earth" now in Maps is the replacement. (As an aside, I find the code-signing in OSX to be pretty crooked -- charging $100/year just to allow people with default settings to run your executables seems pretty sketchy. If it really was about security, I would expect at most a one-time fee, with Apple reserving the right to revoke your key if your programs contain malware.)
- mnem 12y agoSecurity is a part of it, but the fee also gets you 2 incident tickets with Apple engineers (way more that a forum chat - they'll look at code and debug) and a reasonably decent distribution infrastructure (their Mac App Store). I say none of that to justify the overall notion of a paid developer program, but it's wrong to characterise it as just security signing. Although, now that I think about it, I do pay yearly for certificates for my website - although not $99 :)
- cjensen 12y agoBack when compilers cost money, I had no problem as a $40K/year programmer paying >$200 for the latest edition annually. It really is about security. You have to ID yourself to get in. If you write malware, Apple has a kill switch they can enable to kill all your apps everywhere, and law enforcement has at least the start of a trail to follow. I really want Windows to switch to this model! I cringe every time I download an unsigned installer. Even Free Software (Free as in Freedom) developers manage to pay for a cert.
- TillE 12y agoI don't understand why a Microsoft-compatible code signing cert costs around $200/year. I'd be completely in favor of a one-time identity verification fee, or maybe even $100 for a five year cert if you want to make sure everything stays current. But the current structure makes zero sense.
- GeorgeHahn 12y agoNot always true - some companies will give CV certs to OSS projects.
- jpatokal 12y agoGoogle Earth 8 for Android was released only 3 months ago, and it's also the first in the Earth 8 line. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth#Android_version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth#Android_version
- Forbo 12y agoDoes anyone else see this a move to try and get people "hooked on" Google Earth over other more open options (such as TopOSM)?
- smeyer 12y agoNo, not at all. They don't seem to be actively pushing Earth and seem to be pushing aspects of it in Maps instead. It doesn't look like a heavy push to "hook" people on Earth.
- themodelplumber 12y agoI love using the built-in flight sim (flying over mountains and pausing to check out Panoramio photos is cool) but I was surprised to find how old the binary is. Hope they don't completely drop it. :-(
- cma 12y agoFor something similar check out Outerra. Only the paid version has vehicles, but it is really nice, especially in VR.
- johansch 12y agoIsn't this what CNN etc are using on a daily basis? This is now abandonware?
- wldcordeiro 12y agoGoogle Earth and Maps seem to be running into each other's domains. What Google should do is update Google Earth and rebrand it as Maps or vice verse and merge the two.
- chippy 12y agoOfficial announcement http://google-latlong.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/google-earth-pro-is-now-free.html http://google-latlong.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/google-earth-pr...
- jonah 12y agoNice. I just installed GE a couple weeks ago to explore a piece of land I was interested in but had to eyeball the boundaries. Pro has parcel data which is what I'd wanted.