January 27th, 2012Enhanced 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.
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.
Google Earth Client:
· Fixed an issue where ground overlays without the 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.
November 9th, 2011In 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 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 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.
March 31st, 2011Issues 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.
November 30th, 2010New features:
· 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:
· 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).
August 14th, 2010· Draw order of ground overlays and polygons are now restored to behave similarly to versions 5.0 and 5.1.
· Bug fixes for models occasionally not rendering completely. (Issue 268)
June 15th, 2010· 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.
November 19th, 2009· 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.
April 16th, 2008· Photo-realistic buildings from cities around the world
· Dawn to dusk views with the Sunlight feature
· Swoop navigation from outer space to street-level
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