12/22/15

Original Poster

Grace Chang

New Changes to Earth Pro

Hello Google Earth Pro user,

We wanted to inform you that the Terms of Service (TOS) for Google Earth Pro are being updated. Customers with active licenses will continue to be governed by the current GEP terms until the end of your active license term. After such date, your continued use of GEP will be subject to the newly updated Google Earth TOS, with “Google” in the TOS referring to “Google Ireland Limited” for EMEA customers and “Google Asia Pacific Pte Ltd” for APAC customers. For more details, please refer to the email below that was sent in June 2015.

Support Changes

We will continue to offer you technical support through the remainder of your current GEP license term. Afterwards, support will be offered via this Google Maps forum, a user-to-user help platform.

Can I continue to use my License Key?

Existing Earth Pro keys will not expire and will continue to work for free, even after your existing license term is over. While new Earth Pro keys are no longer being generated, you can instead use your email address and the key GEPFREE to sign in once you download the software here.

Earth Pro Product Changes:

The following three layers and Parcel (APN) Search feature will be removed from Google Earth Pro on January 29, 2016:

U.S. Demographics
U.S. Parcels Data
U.S. Daily Traffic Counts

Sincerely,

The Google Earth Team

Community content may not be verified or up-to-date. Learn more.

Recommended Answers (2)

2/3/16

Noisette

Hello everybody, it's clear that a lot of you are upset about this. However, I don't think Google are going to reverse this decision, these layers have now gone.

There have been several suggestions for replacements made on this thread. If you need this information, I recommend that you read through all the posts to see if there is anything that might suit you.

Please feel free to share your own suggestions.

The shortcut "o" on your keyboard will expand and collapse the posts for easier reading.

Edit: the live traffic information has also been removed. Live traffic is still available in Google Maps (https://www.google.com/maps/). You can access it via the option in the left menu. Click the three horizontal lines at the top left to access the menu.

1/16/16

Original Poster

Grace Chang

Parcel functionality was powered by Google Maps Engine which is being deprecated on January 29. As an alternative, Google Maps shows parcel boundaries for many areas if you zoom into the cartographic basemap. The lines are faint, so zoom in and look carefully. Note that the parcel data coverage may not be the same as what was in Google Earth, and you can’t search for a parcel APN.

These parcel boundaries can also be viewed using the Google Maps API which allows you to style the lines to make them more prominent. The style wizard can help create a new style which can be used in some simple Maps API code. Here is some sample code and a link to the demo.

Were these answers helpful?

How can we improve them?

All Replies (349)

12/22/15

Rick Rappe

What alternatives are available for Google Earth Pro that can add back the parcel lines/data?

12/28/15

jasonM1 (GE TC)

If you search http://catalog.data.gov/dataset there are parcel datasets for many states/counties available for free. Filter on geospatial as dataset type then search for word "parcel". You can also further filter on location for a particular area.

If you cannot find what you're looking for on the free sites then there are also commercial sites you can purchase what you need.

For example, Report All website has a large data archive of parcel data per state/county (some states and counties are not included). You can purchase data per county via shapefile, kml, or excel. For a county, you can order data for individual parcels at $1.99 each or the entire county for $400.

Hope that helps.

12/22/15

BeadieJay

Someone in another thread also mentioned http://www.sitesusa.com/ as a possible alternative.

12/22/15

Davana Linkon-Fryzer

Is there a way to purchase a plug in so that the APN and 3 layers will continue to exist?

12/22/15

Jerry BBBB

I'm sick about this. Why is Google doing this? I'm happy to continue to pay a license fee to get the parcel data. $400 a year is cheap. I'm finding sources that want $400 a month for a single county. I can't afford that. What's really happening here?

343 MORE

4/23/17

Squ1rrel

Why can't I see country borders on Chrome PC although I'm on Everything for Map Style? Only the country/subdivision names show up, not the borders!

This question is locked and replying has been disabled. Still have questions? Ask the Help Community.

Badges

Some community members might have badges that indicate their identity or level of participation in a community.

Google Employee — Google product team members and community managers

Community Specialist — Google partners who help ensure the quality of community content

Platinum Product Expert — Community members with advanced product knowledge who help other Google users and Product Experts

Gold Product Expert — Community members with in-depth product knowledge who help other Google users by answering questions

Silver Product Expert — Community members with intermediate product knowledge who help other Google users by answering questions

Product Expert Alumni — Former Product Experts who are no longer members of the program

Community content may not be verified or up-to-date. Learn more.

Levels

Member levels indicate a user's level of participation in a forum. The greater the participation, the higher the level. Everyone starts at level 1 and can rise to level 10. These activities can increase your level in a forum:

Post an answer.
Having your answer selected as the best answer.
Having your post rated as helpful.
Vote up a post.
Correctly mark a topic or post as abuse.

Having a post marked and removed as abuse will slow a user's advance in levels.

View profile in forum?

To view this member's profile, you need to leave the current Help page.

Reply in forum?

This comment originated in the Google Product Forum. To reply, you need to leave the current Help page.

New Changes to Earth Pro

Badges

Levels

View profile in forum?

Report abuse in forum?

Reply in forum?