Los Angeles — Until now everyone is so astonished with Google Maps and now Google is here once again to impress their audience with the new Earth View feature. The Mountain-View, Calif., search engine leader on Monday unveiled an augmented Google Maps feature called Earth view that brings the Google Earth software’s 3D perspective to the Web browser.
This feature is pretty different from the Satellite view. “Earth view delivers a true three-dimensional perspective, which lets you explore mountains in full detail, 3D buildings, and first-person dives beneath the ocean.” – Peter Birch, Google Product Manager
This new Earth View feature would be available on the web browser only after installing this Earth Plugin, now available for download, which Brian McClendon, VP of Engineering, Google Geo, claims will enable surfers to “peep into the world in luxuriantly-detailed, data-rich 3D imagery and terrain from Google Earth”.
Users are recommended to use the Earth View to “fly” through the world, admiring the beauty of the mountains, and places like Pyramids of Egypts, the Taj Mahal, Opera House, the Great Wall of China and so on.
Google explains: “Earth view employs the same technology that powers the Google Earth desktop application. It empowers you to view the same high-resolution imagery, terrain, and 3D cityscapes, all from right within your browser. We built the new Earth view on the Google Earth API and browser plugin, which make it easy for web developers to include Google Earth in their own websites.”
In areas with 3D building models, such as San Francisco, the 3D view is particularly dramatic. (Credit: screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)
The only difference between the Earth View and Google Earth application is that Earth view offers an overall impressive factor as opposed to the detail of Google Maps — you do not get street names, for example, and it would obviously benefit from being viewed in proper 3D (glasses and all).
Here’s a video of how Google Map’s new Earth View will work: