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Google Earth 4.3 Out Wednesday

posted by lxnyce on Tuesday April 15, @07:11AM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the wow-a-new-release dept.
The Ogle Earth blog lets us know that there is a new version of the Google Earth client coming out tomorrow. From their summary : "It’s midnight in Mountain View, so the embargo’s over: There’s a new version of Google Earth coming out today, Google Earth 4.3, though it won’t actually hit Google’s download servers until 8pm local time (00:01 UTC Wednesday morning.)"

Some of the new features to expect are the following :
  • Revamped navigation:
  • Images get easily viewable acquisition dates
  • More and better buildings
  • Flash support for Mac
  • Street View comes to Google Earth.
  • New sunlight control
  • 12 new languages

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Visit the Earth Is Square blog for more information.
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