Google Earth Keeps Disappearing

[Psi Baba]

Thanks! So it's mainly an offline version of Google Maps?

Actually, no. You still need to be online to use Google Earth. The app is really just a specialized browser, and the images are streamed (you'd need terabytes of storage to use it offline). Google Earth does a lot more than Google Maps. For example: full 3-D rendering; the ability to switch layers on and off; if you zoom out far enough, you can virtually grab the Earth and spin it around to move to far-flung location; the ability to create and save customized maps with markers and labels that you can share for others to view; etc.

 

[Modified]

Oh, and GE does much more than Google Maps. There's more tools available, such as a ruler so you can measure distances.

There is a distance measurement tool on Google Maps. It used to be easy to find, but now you have to have an account and log in to get it.

 

[Bell]

Actually, no. You still need to be online to use Google Earth. The app is really just a specialized browser, and the images are streamed (you'd need terabytes of storage to use it offline).

Of course. How could I not think of this?

Google Earth does a lot more than Google Maps. For example: full 3-D rendering; the ability to switch layers on and off; if you zoom out far enough, you can virtually grab the Earth and spin it around to move to far-flung location; the ability to create and save customized maps with markers and labels that you can share for others to view; etc.

I have added 3D rendering to Google Maps via the new plug-in. The custom maps bit sounds interesting though.

 

[LTC8K6]

You can go back in time with GE.

 

[Safe-Keeper]

Yes, that, too -- it stores old imagery, so you can for example go to New Orleans and see what it looked like before the flood. I say download it and play around with it. It takes only seconds to download, and the sheer range of features should blow anyone away. It even has a built-in F-16 "simulator".

 

[Bell]

Yes, that, too -- it stores old imagery, so you can for example go to New Orleans and see what it looked like before the flood. I say download it and play around with it. It takes only seconds to download, and the sheer range of features should blow anyone away. It even has a built-in F-16 "simulator".

I already have

 

[quadraginta]

Yes, that, too -- it stores old imagery, so you can for example go to New Orleans and see what it looked like before the flood. I say download it and play around with it. It takes only seconds to download, and the sheer range of features should blow anyone away. It even has a built-in F-16 "simulator".

Lots of fun stuff around to use with Google Earth.

You can hook up to the USGS here, and add a layer in your GE with all of the seismic activity in the world mapped out with strength and depth stats, updated every five minutes.

 

[Safe-Keeper]

I use it to log my kayak trips. I think I'll also toy around with keeping track of climbing walls and climbing trips with it.

 

[Grizzly Bear]

Running W7 64-bit if it matters.

If it disappears again go to C:\program files (x86)\google\google earth\client

and find googleearth.exe

Just create a shortcut to it onto your desktop. I'm not sure what is causing it, but usually it still runs if I execute the file.