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Google Earth is a free program from Google that takes satellite imagery and maps it onto a globe you can spin, zoom into and fly around.

As well as satellite imagery it also displays:

  • National and regional borders.
  • Places of interest.
  • User uploaded content (photos and articles).
  • 3D buildings.
  • Historical data.

It also includes Street View.

Google Earth homepage

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How can I run Google Earth offline?

I'd like to run Google Earth on a PC that does not have internet access. This was possible in NASA Worldwind if you downloaded all of the maps and stored them offline. However, I have yet to see such documentation for Google Earth. I've seen the…
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Is Google Earth Pro a real program? It installed itself overnight, without my permission

So I woke up today to new a new icon on my desktop named Google Earth Pro. I certainly didn't download or install it myself. I have had the regular Google earth installed for some time now but didn't have a desktop icon for it. Has a virus made it…
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How to uninstall Internet Explorer 9 or rollback to Internet Explorer 8?

I wanted to try, and I installed Internet Explorer 9 and now Firefox is acting strangely. For example, the URL Windows aren't opening in time. When I Maximize Firefox the window title is blinking like crazy. But Google Earth is acting even more…
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How to set the scale exactly in Google Earth?

Is it possible to exactly set the scale in Google Earth? By “exactly” I mean entering a concrete number, either the scale ratio (natural length to length on screen; of course this depends on knowing the display's DPI) or the length of the scale bar…
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How to Export/Extract any 3D model from Google Earth or Google Earth Pro?

I'm French, so excuse my English. Are there ways to export 3D models from Google Earth unavailable on 3D Warehouse? I found old tools: 3D Ripper X, Open GLX Tractor, OGLE (The OpenGLExtractor)... that captured 3D rendering data from Google Earth and…
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How to install Google Earth on Debian Stretch?

After downloading the Dev file from Google, I tried: dpkg -i google-earth-stable_current_amd64.deb but it complains that lsb-core is missing. So I need that package, "which is a virtual package and is not provided by any available package". It…
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How to transfer Google Earth route to Google Maps?

I have a GPX route, I imported it into Google Earth. Everything is fine, so I saved it as KMZ file. Then just for check, I imported KMZ back into Google Earth. No problem. The thing is, I would like to work with Google Maps, no Google Earth and I am…
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How to Create a New Planet In Google Earth

I'm creating my own fictional world for a project of mine, and I want to use Google Earth to map the planet. So, how do I create a new planet in Google Earth? Edit: this is possible in Google Earth enterprise, but I am looking for a way to do this…
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Why does my Google Earth flicker?

When using Google Earth, when I pan the map the application flickers white randomly. The full window turns white for a very short time and I can see "Not Responding" flicker in the title bar. Why does Google Earth flicker and what can I do about it?…
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How to migrate Google Earth "My Places" to a new computer in Windows 7

Am using Windows 7, latest Google Earth (7.1.1.1580 as of today). I am migrating to a new computer. I have copied over the following…
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Viewing Google Earth Engine gallery datasets in standalone Google Earth client

Google Earth Engine contains a number of interesting datasets in the Featured gallery: We have precomputed a number of interesting datasets using the Earth Engine platform, below. Click on each to learn more and preview the data as a global…
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Google Earth on Fedora

I have downloaded Google Earth 7.1.2, and I am trying to install it on Fedora 19. The error I am getting is: Transaction check error: file /usr/bin from install of google-earth-stable-7.1.2.2041-0.x86_64 conflicts with file from package…
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How to force Google Earth to open pictures with Firefox or default browser?

Is there a way to force Google Earth latest version (7.1.1) to open pictures and Wikipedia articles on directly Firefox or a default browser, instead of using its own GUI? Thank you.
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Google Earth Font/Icons Oversized

Google Earth fonts and icons appear oversized. Here is a screenshot: What I've tried so far without success: Adjusted font and font size in Google Earth Preferences Removed Google Earth including preference files and cache and…
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Can I directly access 45-degree imagery in Google Earth?

Is there a way to view the 45° imagery, which google-maps provides at high-zoom levels, directly within Google-Earth?
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