Google Earth Pro is now free

Jay Wright · Post by **Jay Wright** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 9:36 am

They will give you a free license key.

I opened up my existing Google Earth, hit upgrade to pro and followed the directions, took about 10 minutes.

APN's show up now and some lines associated with them.

Anyone know of any other features that come with it?

TTaylor · Post by **TTaylor** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 2:21 pm

Thanks!

Robert Martin · Post by **Robert Martin** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 11:17 am

Did all of your "Place Marks" transfer?

Or did you loose them?

Thanks for the info.

Jim Frame · Post by **Jim Frame** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 1:20 pm

All of my saved Places made the transition. I think Earth and Earth Pro share the same MyPlaces file.

Anthony Maffia · Post by **Anthony Maffia** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 11:24 pm

Thanks!!!

Frank Romano PLS · Post by **Frank Romano PLS** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 10:43 am

Prints to pdf, has higher resolution, can add photo, Title & Legend to prints as well. Import GPS. Movie maker. The parcel data alone is worth the time to upgrade.

David McMillan · Post by **David McMillan** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 2:28 pm

FYI Google Earth is retiring its software and it will be replaced by Esri software

http://www.esri.com/landing-pages/products/google-lp

Anthony Maffia · Post by **Anthony Maffia** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 8:42 pm

That's a sales pitch from Esri. Google would announce the demise of GE on their own.

Jim Frame · Post by **Jim Frame** » Thu Feb 05, 2015 8:58 pm

From what I've read, it's only the enterprise applications -- Earth Enterprise and Maps Engine -- that are slated to sunset. Nothing I've seen yet suggests that Google Earth is going away.

PLS7393 · Post by **PLS7393** » Sat Feb 07, 2015 5:51 pm

Seems Google Pro loaded with ease, even for this non computer knowledge user, lol. I kept the old Google Earth just in case the FEMA and NGS control didn't transfer over, but to my surprise both layers showed on the updated Google Earth Pro.

Thanks Jay!

David McMillan · Post by **David McMillan** » Sun Feb 08, 2015 12:58 pm

Jim is correct, it looks the the Google API is being replaced by an API from esri. This will only effect developers building custom applications using the Google Earth API's. I haven't found any documentation regarding the Google earth website. I wonder if this will affect the DSWorld application?

The whole thing sounds confusing to me anyway.

Dave

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