Google - (Freeware)
View 3D Earth, 3D representations of monuments, buildings, stars and satellites or just study the interactive globe with the amazing application called Google Earth.
Google Earth is a virtual globe that can be used to view the images recorded by satellite from most places in the world.
By entering the place to visit in the search, the application leads the user from space or a few meters above the ground, directly to destination. The accuracy of the photos is amazing.
Globe handling is very intuitive, being possible to orient the camera to rotate, move and naturally enlarge the image.
Additional information can be overlaid on the satellite image, such as hotels, restaurants, roads, etc.
Google Earth is entirely in 3D, relief areas (land and sea) and the buildings are also apparent.
It is possible to annotate the map, send a satellite photo by e-mail or to make measurements to the nearest centimeter. Google Earth is now linked to Google Maps with a single click and user can also vary the lighting of a place based on time.
The application offers the possibility to connect a GPS to view the route and take advantage of specific data such as elevations, speed, etc.
* 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.