阅读以下版本说明,了解 Google 地球 Pro 的新功能。
地球 7.3.6 版- “视频制作程序”工具:
- 视频编码经过硬件加速,可加快处理速度,并提升图片质量。
- 支持 HEVC (H.265) 编解码器。
- 可在实时录制模式下使用的完整导航控件,包括历史图像和街景。
- 提升实时录制期间的响应速度。
- 可以将视频编码推迟到实时录制完成之后。
- 在实时录制模式下,显示干扰性较低的录制状态对话框。
- 实时录制会准确显示用户在录制会话期间执行操作的时间。
- 以 QOI 图片格式保存视频帧。
- 将多重几何图形地标拆分为单独的地标。
- 将多个选定的地标合并为单个多重几何图形地标。
- 导入 GeoJSON 文件。
- 提升了打印工具的质量。
- “保存图片”工具:
- 增加了图片大小上限。
- 支持 PNG 格式。
- 调整了主视图、已保存的图片和打印件中的 Google 地球徽标大小。
- Windows:自动支持高 DPI 显示屏。
- macOS:修复了 macOS 11 及更高版本中难以辨认的对话框标签页。
- macOS:优化我的地点和图层面板的外观。
- 区域化工具支持 KML 架构扩展数据。
- 持续保存 KML 文件,会话之间没有变化。
- 正确导入含有值(包含引号)的 CSV 文件。
- 修改 KML LinearRing 地标线条样式。
- 其他一些小的修复和改进。
- 修复了 Mac 和 Windows 上的 3D 控制器设备问题。
- 解决了街景模式下的导航错误。
- 修复了街景图像渲染失真问题。
- 改进了对新地图图层的支持。
- 加快了 GeoTIFF 文件的导入。
- 提高了星星和夜空背景位置的准确性。
- 改进了与最新 Linux 版本的兼容性。
- 更新和修复了安全性问题。
- 其他修复和功能增强。
对于此 Google 地球 Pro,我们修复了一些问题并做出了一些变更和改进,如下所示:
变更
- 更新了街景体验。
- 改进了 Plus 代码搜索结果。
- 按住 Shift 键并右键点击地图,即可显示 Plus 代码。
- 点击“在 Google 地球(网页版)中查看”按钮,即可在 Google 地球(网页版)中打开当前视图。
- 当您向地标添加照片时,该地标会自动重新定位到照片的 GPS 位置。
- 修复了重新连接 Wi-Fi 后有时会出现的连接问题。
- 现在,GPS 导入功能支持 GeoJSON 格式。
- 解决了以下安全漏洞:
- CVE-2020-8895:针对 Windows 可执行安装程序的 DLL 劫持。
- CVE-2020-8896:由于加密密钥长度无效而导致的缓冲区溢出。
- 其他一些小的修复和更新。
- “位置”面板:多项选择、移动、删除;性能改进
- 网络安全更新和修复;更出色的证书支持
- CSV 导入功能改进:支持较早的 Mac 文件格式和多行文本字段
- 底面叠层编辑器:修复了旋转时的一些小问题和旋转手柄定位问题
- 打印预览:修复了鼠标轮缩放和显示刷新问题
- 国际语言:修复了缺失的翻译、键盘快捷键和界面元素
- “表格”工具:改进了稳定性、布局和数据同步性能
- 在 Google 地球 Pro 中,“导览”在默认情况下为隐藏状态
- Windows:允许 Google 地球同时在多个用户会话中运行
- Windows:改进了在高分辨率显示器上的显示效果
- Windows 64 位修复:操纵杆支持;隐藏 3D 建筑物时发生崩溃的问题;COM 应用(例如 Garmin BaseCamp)界面
- Linux:支持“spacenav”3D 控制器驱动软件
- Windows 64 位:64 位应用
- Windows:支持使用安全服务器进行 SSL 客户端身份验证
- Windows:提升了 DirectX 模式下的稳定性
- Linux:增加了对打印、嵌入式视频和声音的支持
- 提升了使用大型 KML 文件的性能
- 增强了对安全连接和证书错误处理的支持
- 跨越对向子午线的多边形不再出现时有消失的现象
- 修复了 CSV 导入工具界面问题,并提供更好的 Unicode 支持
- 改进了修复工具
- 提高了纵剖面图工具测量的一致性
- 整个界面的翻译质量更好
- 恢复了 GPS 设备实时模式功能
- 修复了高刷新频率显示屏的不兼容问题
已知问题
- Windows:从 32 位升级到 64 位应用会重置缓存
- “表格”工具界面存在稳定性问题
此版 Google 地球客户端中修复的问题
- 某些地点缺少地形图像图块。
- 游览音频录制和播放功能无法正常运行。
- 无法正确保存包含录制音频的游览之旅。
- 在加载大型 KML 数据文件时出现崩溃。
- 向应用窗口中拖放文件的功能无法正常运行。
- 无法使用包含“.kmz”字样的路径打开 KMZ 文件。
- 保存高分辨率图像时,摩天大楼出现裁剪现象。
- Windows 安装程序无法执行 COM 注册。
- 无法加载 KML 中嵌入的某些图像。
- 各向异性过滤选项无效。
- 启动提示的显示位置有时不正确。
- 阿拉伯语标签经常出现裁剪现象。
变更
- Google 地球免费版和专业版现已合并为一个产品,即 Google 地球 Pro。
- Windows:不支持早于 Windows 7 的版本。
- Windows:新安装的 Google 地球默认采用 OpenGL 模式。
- Mac:不支持早于 Mac OS 10.8 的版本。
- Mac:应用现为 64 位。
- Mac:现在提供消除混叠选项。
- 支持高分辨率显示屏(高 DPI 显示屏、Retina 显示屏)
- 提供新修复工具,可用于重置缓存数据和设置,以及用于修复应用启动问题。
- 更新了 Movie Maker 工具,可以支持新的视频格式。
- 改进了图像保存、打印和视频制作性能。
- Web Inspector 工具可用于 KML 提示框。
- 地标提示框支持播放 HTML5 视频(例如 YouTube 嵌入式视频)。
- 更新并改进了内部网络浏览器和安全性。
- “通过 Google+ 分享”功能无法正常运行。
- 目前不支持 SSL 客户端证书。
- 在高 DPI 模式下,工具栏按钮、界面图标像素化。
- Windows:像素比例为 200% 或更高时,系统才启用对高 DPI 的支持(使用
googleearth2x.bat
强制进入高 DPI 模式)。
此版 Google 地球客户端中修复的问题
- 多项安全问题。
- 保存的 KMZ 中缺少某些文件。
- 当用户登录后,“在 Google 地图中查看”选项会导致崩溃。
- Google 地球 Pro 有关许可的问题。
- 本地化错误的界面元素。
- “设置”/“偏好设置”对话框出现意外行为。
- Windows:“在 Google 地图中查看”界面卡死。
- Windows:反馈工具不能正常工作。
- Windows:保存搜索结果时程序挂起。
- Windows:安装程序没有清除文件。
- Mac:在 OS X 10.6 上运行时发生崩溃。
- Mac:不同的 Google 地球版本之间存在安装程序冲突。
- Linux (Debian):搜索时崩溃。
- Linux:安装程序没有安装所需的库。
- Linux:不真实的网络警告消息。
- Linux:查看 Google Moon 地标时发生崩溃。
变更
- 用于修改地标的图片选择器。
- 移除 Google 地球 Pro 的“追加销售”链接。
- 浏览器插件(捆绑版本和独立版本)已不再提供。
- 默认启用精细地形。
- Windows:Qt 应用库已升级。
- Linux:Google 地球 Pro 现已推出。
- Linux:安装程序现在有恰当签名。
已知问题
- 导览叠加层有时会覆盖“启动提示”和“关于”对话框。
- Windows (7):安装程序绘图问题。
- Linux:Google 地球 Pro:在 Movie Maker 中,一些 GPS 功能不可用。
- Linux:Google 地球 Pro:导入对话框有时反应缓慢/迟缓。
此版 Google 地球客户端中修复的问题
- 修复了与 Windows XP 的兼容问题。
- Google 地球 Pro 在闲置几分钟后停止刷新内容。
此版 Google 地球客户端中修复的问题
- 修复了因与 3dconnexion 框架不兼容而导致在部分 Mac 上安装后启动失败的问题。
此版 Google 地球客户端中修复的问题
- 移除了 Google Maps Engine 和 Google 地球社区的菜单项。
- 新增 Google 和 Google 地球徽标。
- 修复了在“我的地点”中重新排列项时出现的崩溃问题。
- Google 地球 Pro:移除了注册对话框,因为 Google 地球 Pro 不再需要许可。
- Windows:修正了因尝试重新安装地球 7 而导致的“1603”安装程序错误。
- Linux:修复了字体对话框和其他崩溃问题。
- Linux:修复了 32 位和 64 位版本之间缓存数据不一致的问题。
- Linux:修复了“/usr/bin”目录权限导致的 RPM 安装程序问题。
- Mac 与 Linux:更新了 3Dconnexion 控制器设备的驱动程序支持。
此版 Google 地球客户端中修复的问题
- Google 帐号登录流程从 OAuth 1.0 更新到 OAuth 2.0,弃用了 Oauth 1.0。2015 年 5 月 30 日之后,使用所有 Google 地球旧版本的用户将无法使用 Google 帐号进行登录。
- 修复了 Mac OS X 上的自动更新流程问题。
此版 Google 地球客户端中修复的问题
针对所有 Google 地球桌面版的次要更新。
- 全新 Windows 安装程序:目前可以使用 WiX(而不是 InstallShield)创建 MSI。
- 全新 Mac 安装程序:全新安装与首次自动更新到 7.1.4 及更高版本可能需要管理员密码。
- 企业版在启动时不再连接到 Google Oauth 服务器。
- 修复了一些较小的安全问题
- 徽标刷新(目前在 Google 地球中使用大写字母“E”)
此版 Google 地球客户端中修复的问题
- 用户偏好设置中的“启用控制器”选项目前在默认情况下处于关闭状态。由于未校准的操纵杆和其他控制器会在 Google 地球启动时与其连接,因此该选项会阻止系统显示红色方向箭头。
- 为了提高安全性,“对 Google 连接使用 HTTPS”选项目前在默认情况下处于开启状态。
- 我们修复了缓存大小超出用户指定上限的错误。
- 修复了在部分 Windows 计算机中搜索时会崩溃的问题。
- LEAP API 的版本更新至 1.0.8。
- 我们降低了 LEAP 控制器对用户手部动作的敏感度。这样可以让用户在使用 LEAP 时飞行更顺畅,而且可以更有效地控制飞行路径。
此版 Google 地球客户端中修复的问题
- 我们已将 LEAP API 的版本更新至 1.0.8,并修复了导致部分用户在 Windows XP 上运行 Google 地球时出现程序崩溃的问题。如果您想在 LEAP 设备上运行 Google 地球,请确保您运行的是 LEAP Motion 网站提供的 LEAP 驱动程序,且版本不低于 1.0.8。
- “启用控制器”选项目前在默认情况下处于开启状态。如果您将未校准的外部控制器(例如游戏操纵杆)连接到自己的计算机,则可能会导致地球旋转,并会显示箭头来指示移动方向。要解决这一问题,我们建议您采用以下方法:
- 关闭“选项”/“偏好设置”菜单“导航”标签页中的“启用控制器”
- 拔出外部控制器或
- 重新校准外部控制器
Issues fixed in this release Google Earth Client
- We have included another fix for the unified_cache_leveldb_leveldb2 directory filling beyond specified cache limits for some Windows and Macintosh users.
- Imagery no longer stays blurry upon zooming in when the cache is full.
- Certain NVIDIA cards, notably the GeForce 6600, 6800 and 7950, no longer suffer corrupted text or navigation controls in DirectX mode.
- Font and tilt settings now stick between sessions.
- Balloon opens now display when recording tours.
- We have included UI improvements to Flight Simulator.
- When printing, the scale legend now displays correct distances.
- Collada models now display with uncorrupted textures.
- Polygons and image overlays now display correctly across the Antimeridian.
- We fixed an issue with certain GPU - driver combinations whereby no imagery displayed in the client.
- The time slider in Sun and Historical Imagery features now displays the correct Daylight Savings time.
- Performance and stability improvements.
- [Pro] Artifact .avi files are no longer created when rendering movies from tours on Windows. [Pro] Calculating a Viewshed in parts of the southern hemisphere no longer displays an error.
- [Pro] The scale legend in the print flow no longer disappears when view is tilted, nor does it change between high-, medium- and low-quality prints
Known issues
- On certain Radeon GPUs, specifically the X1600, SketchUp Buildings appear corrupted when Atmosphere is on. As a workaround, enable 3D Imagery in 3D View > Terrain or turn off Atmosphere.
- Elevation Profile displays as blank on Mac machines running certain NVIDIA GeForce GPUs.
- On Macintosh OS, the Google Earth Plugin will not install in Firefox while Firefox is running. As a workaround, install the Plugin when Firefox is closed. Note that this bug does not affect updating the Plugin, only the first installation.
- Audio recorded in tours does not play across platforms. As a workaround, record a tour on the OS that you intend to use while playing the tour.
- Tours stop recording when there is no 3D View movement during recording.
- For users running Intel 965 Express Chipsets on Windows XP and Windows Vista, Earth will appear pixelated when run in OpenGL mode. As a workaround, run Earth in DirectX mode.
- [Pro] Print style options are broken when Atmosphere is off. To enable these options, ensure that Atmosphere is on.
- [Pro] A Viewshed warning dialog appears for placemarks at ≤2m and a high tilt.
- [Pro] After computing a Viewshed Earth areas outside the Viewshed zone suffer corruption. Exiting the Viewshed will correct the display of these areas.
New features in Google Earth Pro
- Ability to create rich, annotated images from print and save
- Redesigned print flow
- Viewshed/Line of Sight analysis tool from a placemark
New features in Google Earth and Google Earth Pro
- Support for LEAP Motion device
- Enhanced starfield
- Google Feedback tool integration
- Redesigned balloons
Issues fixed in this release
Google Earth Client
- Polygons and image overlays display over the international dateline
- Performance improvements in Movie Maker and in viewing 3D imagery areas
- Ocean surface displays across Mac clients with Intel GPUs
- Full Map names display in Google Maps Engine maps
- Earth client now supports NTLM authentication for a PAC file
- Fixed Incorrect "Z-order" in rendering overlapped vector layers
Known issues
- Plugin fails to initialize on Internet Explorer 10 and 11. As a workaround, we suggest enabling Compatibility View.
- Elevation profiles display as blank on certain Mac configurations.
- The Google Earth Plugin will not install while the Firefox browser is running. As a workaround, install the Google Earth Plugin while the browser is closed.
Issues fixed in this release
Google Earth Client
- We have put in a fix for the
unified_cache_leveldb_leveldb2
directory filling beyond specified cache limits for some Windows users. - We now handle SSL certificate revocation errors appropriately.
- Lighting of Diorama buildings in OGL now appears correctly.
- Balloons no longer flicker while playing tours.
- We have improved the appearance of image and polygon overlays for users running some families of Radeon GPUs.
- We have included stability improvements for users running GeForce 6xxx and 7xxx cards.
- We have included stability improvements for users running Earth for extended periods of time.
- Imagery now displays for Linux users running specific families of Intel GPUs.
Google Earth Plugin
- Placemark and linestring quality no longer diminishes in the Plugin with browser refresh.
Known issues
- Water surfaces around coastlines will flicker then resolve upon zoom.
- [Pro/Enterprise] Rendering of movies, especially movies that show 3D imagery at a tilt, is very slow. As a workaround, we recommend using Google Earth 6.2.2.6613 for movies that require such a perspective.
What’s new in Google Earth 7.0.2 release?
- We have included substantial performance improvements to this build. You should see scenes load more rapidly than in our previous public Beta release.
- We have included minor tweaks to the Tour Guide UI.
Issues fixed in this release
Google Earth Client
- We fixed the bug that prevented users from recording movies from saved tours.
- Wikipedia text displays in tours.
- Gray buildings and extruded polygons have improved lighting effects.
- Imagery holes no longer appear after sun has been turned on in DirectX on certain hardware configurations.
- Icons align correctly upon installation of .dmg.
Known issues in Google Earth 7 OOB
- When run in DirectX mode on certain Radeon graphics cards on Windows, SketchUp models and extruded polygons will appear gray. To work around this issue, run Earth in OpenGL mode.
- When run in OpenGL mode on certain Intel graphics cards, SketchUp models and extruded polygons will appear gray. To work around this issue, run Earth in DirectX mode.
- Clamped Polygons and Image Overlays display multiple instances in 3D cities on certain hardware configurations.
- KML overlays don't render correctly in 3D cities in DX on certain hardware configurations.
- Water surfaces around coastlines will flicker then resolve upon zoom.
- Placemark and linestring quality diminishes in the Plugin with browser refresh. To workaround, zoom closely into the KML you want to view.
- Terrain and Water Surface oddities exist at the antimeridian.
- Support for 3D imagery data: 3D data provides a comprehensive representation of metropolitan environments around the world. 3D imagery is currently available in the these areas.
- Tour Guide mechanism in the client: The new tour guide allows you to explore interesting places around the world, even if you don’t know to search for them. As you move, thumbnails of pre-created tours and points of interest will dynamically update with interesting locations in your current view. Read more.
- Support for terrain data accessed via Google Maps Engine
- Zooming in now tilts at a higher elevation in order to showcase 3D imagery
- A unified graphical rendering pipeline
- Redesigned startup tips and status bar
Issues fixed in this release
Google Earth Client
- Fixed a Pro and Enterprise bug whereby cached login data disappeared after upgrading to Mac OS 10.8+.
- Sound can now be recorded from a microphone when producing a tour.
- Improved Atmosphere feature for users on certain NVIDIA GeForce cards.
- Polygons clamped to seafloor now display correctly.
Known issues in Google Earth 7
- PC Enterprise users will note flashing historical imagery when going to the minimum date of the time slider in a handful of areas around the world. To workaround, use 6.2 for Enterprise.
- Terrain, imagery and polygons that overlap the antemeridian occasionally appear broken.
- This build includes changes to shaders that strain older graphics cards. Please see system requirements for updated lists of recommended hardware.
New features in this release
- Enhanced search, including support for:
- Clearer local business and directions search results. These now appear in full HTML in the left hand panel.
- Improved quality thresholds on search results.
- Walking directions, biking directions, and transit search.
- Search layers in local business searches. In a local business search, you now see all relevant results in the 3D view, 10 results in the search panel.
- Suggest in search. As you type a search query, search suggestions appear in a drop-down menu.
- Loading search results with one click, not two.
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Improved imagery rendering, including:
- Google Earth imagery is significantly more seamless, especially at higher altitudes
- Fade-in animation for imagery as it is fetched.
- Anisotropic filtering by default.
- Improved level of detail calculation for imagery tiles.
- Unified network stack. Google Earth now uses the same network stack for imagery, vector content, balloon content and embedded browser content. This will avoid situations where imagery loads but balloon content does not display under certain proxy settings.
- Ability to share screenshots with your Google+ circles from within the Google Earth client.
- Unified Google login mechanism in the client.
- Improved performance with 3D buildings.
Issues fixed in this release
Google Earth Client
- Fixed an issue where ground overlays without the "icon" tag did not render rectangles using the fill color. KML ground overlays where images fail to load will now draw rectangles using a default or user-specified fill color.
- Added the ability to create balloon HTML for locally saved images using the “Add image” button.
- Fixed proxy accessibility issues for the Google Earth Plug-in and Client.
- Added the ability to update network links in parallel on synchronous updates.
Google Earth Browser Plug-in and API
- Fixed an issue where the Google Earth Browser Plug-in generated an “ATL 10.0” error while running on Internet Explorer versions 8 and 9.
- Fixed an issue where Google Earth Browser Plug-in wouldn’t resize on Firefox version 4 and above on Mac.
- Fixed an issue where the “-” key was not working on Google Earth Plug-in on Mac.
- Fixed an issue where the AJAX loader returned false for isSupported() on 64-bit browsers that are not supported.
- Fixed the rendering order of imagery layers added through side databases.
- Fixed an issue where 3D buildings did not update with changes in view when terrain is not visible.
Known issues in Google Earth 6.2
- New search pages and screenshot sharing pages are not fully translated into all languages.
- Text in the Google login box is clipped at the bottom.
- Some instability and growth in memory usage is seen in long running or looping tours and while making movies from long tours.
New in Google Earth Pro:
- Google Earth Pro has improved support for printing from the client. Changes include a legend with a North indicator and scale, controls for print/paper size, and improved performance.
- Google Earth Pro has improved the experience of making movies by simplifying the user interface and improving performance in certain configurations.
- Importing data files in Google Earth Pro is now easier with the ability to edit shared balloon style for folders and to increase the import categorization limit from 8 to 64.
- Google Earth Pro now allows you to view an elevation profile while measuring.
In Google Earth (Consumer and Pro version):
- Improved the robustness of network access by providing better support for Proxy and SSL certs. This will fix issues users have experienced of not being able to see balloon content or embedded browser content.
- Improved the resolution seen in elevation profiles for lines and tracks.
- Added the ability to sort “My Places,” and improved the user interface to be able find points across my places.
- There were several improvements to Street View in Google Earth. We added the ability to zoom into a Street View photo by using a zoom slider. Street View in Earth feels more immersive now due to wider field of view. It is now faster and smoother to use. We made several small tweaks to the user interface including adding a way to navigate floors when you are indoors and there are multiple floors available in Street View.
- Fixed bugs related to missing road labels in cases where roads were curvy or zoomed into.
In Google Earth API for browser plugins:
- Added API for working with tours.
Fixed bugs and product changes:
- To conform more closely with the OGC KML 2.2 standard, we've made the parsing of the <coordinates> tag more strict in version 6.1. Spaces must only be used to separate the (longitude,latitude,altitude) triplets which specify the coordinates of a single point. It is invalid to add spaces between individual coordinates. We understand that previous versions of the client were more lenient, so if your KML files contain spaces beween coordinates in coordinate triplets, an easy workaround is to remove all whitespace located immediately before or after commas inside a <coordinates> tag.
- Several performance improvements that would allow smoother experience in specific computer configurations.
- Fixed 'Restrict to View' functionality during a shapefile import in Google Earth Pro.
- Fixed an issue where Google Earth would sometimes save incorrect ordering of elements in KML.
- Added field of view recording to tours and ability to play back those changes.
- Fixed an issue where the icon heading did not work in Google Earth API.
- Changes to reduce occurrences of missing desktop icon and shortcut menu items on an update.
- Sped up overlay polygon rendering in OpenGL mode.
- Fixed loading of kmz files when the first file at the root level was image file.
- Upgraded GDAL support to 1.7.0 and fixed issues with importing .tab files in Google Earth Pro.
- Fixed the discrepancy caused in measurements due to multiple radii of Earth used inside Google Earth.
- Fixed an issue where placemarks created with UTM coordinates did not move when edited.
- Fixed an issue when screen overlays disappeared in a print-out.
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.
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).
New features in Google Earth 5.2 Out of Beta:
- Visualization of Rain/Snow when the weather layer is enabled in the Google Earth client.
Issues fixed in Google Earth 5.2 Out of Beta:
- Fixed polygon overlay rendering issues in the Google Earth Browser Plug-in as well as the Google Earth Client when using Direct X rendering mode.
- Improved overall stability by fixing multiple crashes seen since beta release.
- Drawing order of ground overlays and polygons has been restored to behavior similar to versions 5.1 and 5.0.
- Multiple bugs related to the GPS functionality with different devices have been fixed.
- Fixed a bug related to mouse navigation not working when using the Ruler tool.
- Panoramic photos in 360 cities layer (and similar other panoramic photos) were tilted with beta version. This bug has been fixed.
- Issues seen with lines and polygons in high resolution image saving and printing for Google Earth Pro version have been fixed.
- Improved start-up time for the Internal Browser.
- Fixed text scale in 3D view for the Movie Maker tool in Google Earth Pro.
- 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.
In addition to features present in Google Earth Consumer version, Google Earth Pro version has support for the following additional features.
- Additional Layers in Google Earth Pro:
- US Demographics: Provided by Nielsen Claritas, shows United States Census Tract Data, including income, age, ethnicity, household size, marital status and more for 2010, as well as a projection for 2015.
- US Parcel Data: Provided by DataQuick, shows critical parcel and building information for commercial and residential real estate within the United States.
- US DailyTraffic Counts: Provided by Market Planning Solutions Inc., shows the concentration of automobile traffic for different areas within the United States.
- Creation of Efficient Regionated KML for vectors and images: You can now create hierarchical, vector data and image overlays in Google Earth Pro.
- Improvements to Draw and Measure tools: Changes make it easier to measure and draw. You can also see measurements by selecting properties of an object now.
- General Improvements to importing Spreadsheet Data & Applying Style Templates
- Other Changes include:
- Improved polygon rendering.
- Bug fixes for polygons and image overlays spanning date-line/anti-meridian.
- Bug fixes to allow getting closer to 3D models.
- Bug fixes for anti-aliased lines and points in Google Earth.
- Improved stability and memory consumption by Google Earth Application.
- Minor enhancements to Time UI in Google Earth Application.
- New icons for Pro and EC versions of Google Earth.
- Reduced aliasing/shimmer in Historical imagery mode.
- For Consumer and Pro version, moved Terrain setting to options menu from layers panel.
- Improved Earth Gallery integration in application and changed Add Content Button to Earth Gallery button on layers panel.
- Added support for ZH-HK language.
- Added support for MGRS coordinate system.
- Added support for editing coordinates in UTM.
Known Issues and Workarounds
In Google Earth Pro, while using movie-making with high resolutions you could run into issues of text and view being distorted in OpenGL mode. We are fixing this issue. If you run into this issue, there are three workarounds
- Use window size such that 3D view is larger than resolution of movie being recorded.
- Use window size such that both vertical and horizontal size of 3D window is smaller than resolution needed.
- If you are using windows platform, you can use DirectX mode.
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)
- getElementbyType
- getElementsByStyleUrl
- Access to Balloon Content
- Ability to get balloon content using getBalloonDescription, getBalloonHtml, and getBalloonHtmlUnsafe (#16) (#97).
- 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:
- 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
Google Earth 5.1 release is mostly a performance and bug fix release upgrade over Google Earth 5.0. Salient changes include:
- 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.
All of the notes for the Google Earth Application apply to browser plugin version. Additional changes include:
- API additions: Please refer to API documentation for details.
- KmlListStyle::listItemType and KmlListeItemTypeEnum
- google.earth.executeBatch(fn)
- GETourPlayer::get/setCurrentTime
- GETourPlayer::getDuration
- GESchemaObject::release()
- Experimental feature KmlFeature::get/setOpacity
- Improved performance for Javascript application by allocating time for it in Google Earth.
- One installer available that installs both desktop application and browser plugin.
- 3D Buildings: OpenGL mode performance is improved. Buildings are streamed in smoother, and low memory situations are handled better.
- Tours: Make flyto and tour paths smoother by fixing several cases for jitters and unexpected jumps in camera path. Improve tour creation so that the tour path has smooth interpolation. On pause, open balloons are left open instead of closing them. Support generating tours from nested folders of placemarks.
- Collada Models: Enhance collada model handling to work when Multiple resources associated with same model. Improve handling of animated textures on the models.
- Pro Movie Maker: Fix movie maker to work well in presence of animated water surface. Fix holes seen in high resolution movies. Fix bugs in creating large AVI movies. Fix a crash while recording movies. Fixed high resolution movie creation in cases where it would distort view.
- Fix installation failure on 64 bit linux machines related to linking against wrong version of libssl.
- Improved culling of objects near poles.
- Fix the case where Earth kept continuously updating after a tour was finished.
- Fix handling of drag and drop in left menu between folders.
- Remove occasional spurious scrollbars in balloons.
- Fix holes in high resolution movies and printing. Fix tears in high resolution image save and print when animated water was in view.
- Fix a crash in switching to Mars from photo view.
- Fix Mars atmosphere for some graphics cards so that it shows up with red color instead of blue now.
- Show appropriate historical imagery tickmarks when zoomed way in.
- Fix cases that let sound continue playing even after a balloon was closed or tour was paused.
- Fix text clustering when eye is below water.
- Fix a crash on shutdown.
- Fix issues with handling altitude modes in <Camera> tags below and above water.
- 支持显示水下地形、水面及水下 3D 模型。
- 支持历史图像,包括新增的界面元素,以便让用户选择历史图像资源。
- 新的游览功能可以录制并回放游览或演示。该功能还支持声音的录制和回放。
- 支持在 Google 地球的提示框中使用完整的 HTML、JavaScript 和 iframe。
- 通过星空和行星的下拉菜单支持“火星”的图像/地形/图层。
- 新增 15 种支持语言,目前共支持 41 种语言。
- Google 地球中的时间采用新的统一用户界面,支持阳光、基于时间的 KML 和历史图像。
- 重新设计了界面图标和启动画面。
- 支持通过点击线条和多边形打开描述提示框。
- 支持地面叠加层的任意角位置。
- 在性能允许的计算机上默认启用 3D 建筑。
- 在 Windows 系统中,新增 OpenGL 模式下的全景抗锯齿功能。
- 免费版现在支持导入 GPS 设备追踪(46 种新设备)及实时追踪功能。您可以访问 http://www.earth.google.com/userguide/v4/ug_gps.html,了解更多信息
- KML 内容的标签弹出时更加明显。
- 为 Windows 系统中针对所有用户和针对单一用户的安装分别提供安装程序。
- Faster start-up time.
- Earth honors cache settings more rigorously.
- Faster processing of KML files.
- Significant performance improvements for 3D buildings in DirectX mode.
- Enhanced support for anisotropic filtering.
- Improved level of detail computation for better performance and quality.
- Use OGC standard KML name when saving KML files.
- Support for installers for users with non-administrative priviledges on Vista.
- Improved performace for regionated KML files.
- Improved performance in Pro version printing images, saving images and capturing movies.
- Added HD view / output sizes.
Known Issues in Google Earth 5.0:
- In low memory situations, 3D buildings may not get displayed on Earth. Some of the workarounds include increasing cache size from options menu, restoring defaults from options menu, restarting application and clearing memory cache.
- On some windows systems, sound recording may not work. In this case, you can fix it by installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package (x86).
- For KML content, balloon formatting may be different as compared to previous versions and an unnecessary horizontal scroll bar may show up.
- Switching to sky from Mars does not change the search box to do sky search. As a workaround, you would need to switch to Earth and switch back to sky.
- Sometimes, overlays drawn on ocean surface may also get drawn on the underwater terrain.
- Missing images in balloons may cause balloons to flicker.
- In KMZ files with network links, styles from a link do not always override styles from parent file.
- KML files saved from client have unnecessary extra namespace declaration.
- Using a "fly to" (by double clicking a place mark) when recording a tour might lead into a jitters in recording.