Google Earth is a kind of globe that sits inside your PC. You point and zoom to anyplace on the planet that you want to explore. Satellite images and local facts zoom into view. Tap into Google search to show local points of interest and facts. Zoom to a specific address to check out an apartment or hotel. View driving directions and even fly along your route.

Google Earth is free for personal use. No registration is required. Sophisticated streaming technology delivers the data to you as you need it. Imagery and 3D data depict the entire earth - Terabytes of aerial and satellite imagery depict cities around the world in high-resolution detail. Local search lets you search for restaurants, hotels, and even driving directions.

Easy to layer multiple searches, save results to folders, and share with others. Layers show parks, schools, hospitals, airports, shopping, and more. KML – data exchange format let your share useful annotations and view. Google earth can be used for planning a trip, getting driving directions, finding a house or apartment, finding a local business and exploring the world. You may choose to upgrade to Google Earth Plus.

Google Earth Plus includes GPS data import - read in tracks and waypoints from select GPS devices, higher resolution printing, customer support via email, Annotation – adds draw/sketch tools for richer annotations (can be shared as KML) and data importer – read address points from .csv files.

Google Earth Pro features sophisticated streaming technology delivers the data to you as you need it, imagery and 3D data depict the entire earth - Terabytes of aerial and satellite imagery depict cities around the world in high-resolution detail, local search lets you search for restaurants, hotels, and even driving directions. Easy to layer multiple searches, save results to folders, and share with others, layers show parks, schools, hospitals, airports, retail, and more, overlays – import site plans, design sketches and even scanned blueprints, annotate the view with lines and polygons, Spreadsheet import - ingest up to 2,500 locations by address and KML – data exchange format let your share useful annotations.

Google Earth is used in many industries today including Commercial real estate, Residential real estate, Architecture, construction and engineering; Insurance ;Media ;Defense/Intelligence ;Homeland security ;Public sector and NGO; State and local government.

Google Earth Enterprise allows you to put the power of Google Earth inside your enterprise. Combine enterprise data with ASP-delivered Google Earth data. Whether your organization already invests heavily in geographic data and systems or you are just beginning to leverage the power of geo information, Google Earth's enterprise solution can help make your business more efficient. Google Earth's technology makes it easy for non-specialist users to interact with massive quantities of satellite imagery and GIS data to penetrate the clutter of data and get to the knowledge that could make a critical difference. Google Earth Enterprise Solution is comprised of three elements:

a) Google Earth Fusion integrates your data - raster, GIS, terrain, and point data. Google Earth Server streams data to client software. Google Earth EC viewing, printing, data authoring. 3D view provides a complete picture of the area of interest by fusing imagery, elevation data, GIS data, and your own points and annotations. Fluid and responsive interaction streaming technology enables easy exploration of massive datasets. Google Earth Pro bundles – Quantity discounts for enterprise deployment of Google Earth Pro – our ready to deploy ASP geo-information solution

Google Earth Fusion supports imagery, terrain, polygons points and lines, Supports distributed data processing across multiple CPUs and machines, Easy-to-use GUI, Project metaphor – create projects for different collections of data, Auto-ingest – scriptable engine to automatically synch with changing data stores, Built-in image re-projection, Virtual mosaic king capability, Support for filled polygons and 3D .shp files and support for common raster and vector data formats.

b) Google Earth Enterprise Pro – full enterprise solution for authoring and serving stand-alone earth database.

c) Google Earth Enterprise LT – Hybrid solution enables local hosting of enterprise data layers fused with Google Earth base map. Technology benefits include massively scalable – hundreds of daily users can be supported from a single server, thousands from a small cluster. Unparalleled speed – patent-pending 3D technology provides fluid game-like access to remotely hosted multi-terabyte databases. The Google Earth Enterprise Solution is used by commercial real estate developers including national brokerages and REITs, Architecture and engineering companies, Insurance companies and media.