How to download Google Earth

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There's life beyond Google Maps for seeing the world around yous. Google Earth is Google'southward other mapping program, and information technology provides more of satellite's eye view of the globe. If you haven't used it in a while, information technology's well worth your time to download Google Earth, either for your computer or mobile device.

Whereas Google Maps largely focuses on navigation, Google Globe is more nigh discovery. Yep, you lot can utilize the desktop or mobile version to see how to get to places. But the existent value is to hone in on the details of famous sites, interesting locations and personalized spots that take meaning to you lot.

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Earlier you tin start exploring the earth with Google Earth, yous need to download the app. Here'due south where you'll find it, what platforms it works on and what you can do with Google World once it's installed.

Where to download Google Earth

Google Earth is available in a browser-based version y'all access from your desktop. In improver to Google's own Chrome browser — naturally — yous can access Google Earth on the web using Edge, Firefox or Opera.

If you'd like to import and consign GIS information, there's a desktop version of Google Earth called Google Earth Pro. Don't let the Pro proper name fool yous — information technology reflects the feature set, and not the price, equally like Google Earth, Google Globe Pro is a costless download. The pro version works on Windows, macOS or Linux.

Google Earth Pro: Google

As for mobile devices, you tin also become a global view by downloading Google Earth for either Android or iOS. The mobile version syncs up with whatever info you've stored on the desktop version and so you can look at the same places regardless of device.

Google Earth for Android: Google Play
Google Earth for iOS and iPhone: iOS App Store

What you can do with Google Earth

Besides a view of nearly the entire globe pieced together from satellites and Google Street view images — which in itself is pretty cool — Google Earth features some other functionality also. You're able to upload your own photos and videos to the site to add together significant and details to locations. If y'all want, you cull to share stories with others, which can come up in handy for class projects or presentations. Yous're able to depict on the map as well.

Voyager allows yous to get more out of Google World by taking you on guided tours of points of interest also as other countries and cultures. It'south a cracking style to explore without leaving home. And if the earth seems adequately express, an update to the mobile version of Google World from earlier this twelvemonth lets you lot pull dorsum to 30,000 miles above the earth to see some of the surrounding stars.

Google Earth has captured approximately 98% of the globe and there'southward an estimated 10 million miles of Street View photos to assistance y'all explore.

Philip Michaels is a senior editor at Tom's Guide. He has strong opinions about Apple tree, the Oakland Athletics and old movies. Follow him at @PhilipMichaels.

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How to download Google Earth