Google+Keyhole = Google Earth

garychang

New Features

Integrated address searching, business searching, and driving directions  
Fly to an address, look up businesses, get driving directions with the integrated Google search. Here's a quick summary of things you can do from the new 'Search' pane in the upper left portion of the window:

Tour your search results or ‘play’ a flight of driving directions using the ‘Play’ button just below the search results. Double-click on search results in the list and fly to them in the 3D view. Right-click on individual search results, or the entire folder, to save it to your My Places, or to do a Google search on that business.
Note: you can now get “Directions from” and “Directions to” any search result by right-clicking on the search result.
Improved data and 3D buildings
You may have noticed our new database, now called the "Primary Database", when you log in. It features a new global basemap, updated business layers and European roads, and more high-resolution aerial and satellite imagery. In this release, we’ve also added the ability to see 3D buildings in select cities. To enable this feature, select ‘Buildings’ in the navigation panel (note: it may cause the application to run slowly on older graphics cards).



Improved Placemark creation and sharing  
Placemarks enable you to create and share favorite places. Keyhole 2 LT offered several cool new Placemark features: custom icons, folders and image overlays. Now Google Earth adds annotation: you can mark a trail, outline a property, or just ‘point’ to the place you want to meet a friend. Select the Placemark icon in the navigation panel, then choose ‘Path or Polygon.’ Google Earth shares Placemarks in a new format called 'KMZ.' This enhanced format allows you to share your custom icons and overlays via email in a single file without an external hosting service (compatibility note: Google Earth can read Placemarks created with Keyhole 2 LT, but Keyhole 2 LT won’t read Placemarks created with Google Earth).

Data import   
You can now import a .CSV file (an export format for Microsoft Excel and many other applications) that includes address data. For example, if you have a list of locations with addresses, you can save those as a .CSV file and import them into the application.

GPS (Global Positioning System) support  
You can now import data directly from several popular GPS devices.  

International improvements
Street address lookup in the fly-to search now works for UK and Canada, and business search listings can be done in the UK as well.

Those are the high points. We hope you’ll give it a spin.


The Google Earth Team
*圖片取自mail中

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以上是今天收到的mail的內容，目前應該還是beta版，且提供keyhole註冊用戶測試
玩了幾分鐘，大致上的感覺如下
1)台灣的圖資變多了，美國的建築物有些有3D化(不確定是否於此版才新增)
2)對intel的顯式卡支援變好，速度快很多(同上，不確定何時修過這個問題)
3)可以同google map般規畫路徑，很方便

其它待我換回pc抓圖再來分享

[ Last edited by garychang on 2005-5-28 at 07:17 ]