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A couple of months ago, Google Maps on the Chrome browser lost the "Earth" view mode. I can no longer get the 3D view or zoom out to see the real time cloud cover. All it has is the 'satellite' view. At first I thought this was a bug they would eventually fix, but nothing so far.

Google maps on Firefox still has the earth view feature for some reason.

P a u l
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It is still there, but you have to ensure that "Hardware Acceleration" is Enabled inside Chrome settings:

chrome://settings

  • click Show Advanced Settings
  • scroll down to the "System" section and check "use hardware acceleration when available"

Then, restart chrome and you should now have the "Earth" option

Mike Diglio
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I have the same problem. Window 10, Chrome 55, Intel HD4000/Radeon HD7600M. No earth mode in Google Map only Satelite when I open from Chreom (and Opera) but no problem at all when I open from Firefox, MS Edge or even oldie IE. It's very weird because when I boot from another partition (on my old HDD) with the same drivers and softwares, it works fine . I tried all suggestions but still doesn't work.

Just minute ago I found this suggestion and it solved my problem. Just enable "Override software rendering list" in Chrome.

https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/maps/I8snLYto720/R1DLH-T5BwAJ

Jareon C
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The problem seems to be tied to WebGL being disabled in Chrome ... the graphics card may be "blacklisted". Try this:

  1. Type this into address bar: chrome://flags
  2. Enable 'Override software rendering list' ... should be at the top.
  3. Re-launch Chrome.

Worked for me...hope it helps.

Scott - Слава Україні
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Derek Reid
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