Google Earth 4.0 Beta Is Impressive

Posted on June 12, 2006, 5:33 pm, by James Fee, under GIS, Google, Google Earth.

Google EarthI like the changes to the GUI with the new Google Earth 4.0 beta, plus all the new changes to KML. I sure wish I wasn’t traveling this week (stuck in the high desert of California on a “high speed Internet” connection that the hotel swears is DSL but I’m not buying it) and had some time to check more out. There are many new subtle features that will require more review, I just don’t know where to begin!

Google just keeps pushing that benchmark further and further.

3 Comments

  1. Christian Maire says:
    June 13, 2006 at 7:07 am

    I’m immensely happy with the clean-up on the layers. One less publicized feature that many people will appreciate is the ability to adjust the terrain quality in Options.

    It still doesn’t do the Matterhorn justice, however…

  2. Matthew Stone says:
    June 13, 2006 at 11:27 am

    James, saw a message recently on the ESRI listserve wheres someone was concerned about implementing ArcGIS server at a state agency and its complexity. I have been following yours and other developers’ sites for a little while and was wondering about your thoughts on this, as I will be travelling this road too, shortly. Is there a better cookbook out there than what is provided in ESRI documentation? ANy trials and tribulations you could start posting? I am a well-versed GIS desktop and web-GIS user, but NOT a hardcore Programmer, so anything I can be aware of before going into the room with our IT professional, would be most helpful. Thanks in advance…

    Matthew

  3. Brian Johnson says:
    June 14, 2006 at 8:12 am

    On Windows XP, SR2…

    I’ve been able to use the beta 4 version for less than a minute at a time. It locks up on me while loading, or soon after the earth appears.

    I have the same problem both with the free version, and the Pro version.

    When installing the free version (on my home computer) the earthps.dll had a regiser error message – it wouldn’t register, and couldn’t be registered manually. This might be a cause of the crashing, but I didn’t get this message when installing the Pro version at work.

    Did you note that the Spring 2006 ArcNews had information about the beta release of ArcGIS Explorer? But go to the ESRI site, and no download is availble….

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