Google Earth Pro now Free??

Great Timing

I was actually thinking about purchasing the Google Earth Pro last week. That parcel information would be really useful for calculating cost on some jobs. This is awesome!!

That explains it. I had installed it last month to use the temporary program to get some better images. Figured I would uninstall once the license expired. Well... never expired. Thought I might of found a glitch and was a lucky one. Guess not.

Just Signed up and it worked!

From Google.

"Dear Eric,

To use Google Earth Pro with your free license key, please follow these instructions:

Step 1: Download
Download the latest version of Google Earth Pro for Windows or Mac:
http://earth.google.com/intl/en/download-earth-pro.html

Step 2: Install
Locate the download and follow the prompts to install Google Earth Pro onto your machine.

Step 3: Login
Launch Google Earth Pro, enter the following information, and click “Log In”

"

B-)

The ability to open/import shape files is handy.

The newest pro version also seems to handle larger files better. I can now have a PLSS layer display properly for my entire county.

My google earth has a Trimble icon in the upper left corner of the map area. Is that an indication of changes to come later?

Not sure. Mine has a copyright for www.historicmapdvds.com

Not sure where that came from, but I googled it and came up with a neat layer that overlays historic USGS quad maps.

> My google earth has a Trimble icon in the upper left corner of the map area. Is that an indication of changes to come later?

You have probably created a KMZ file with TBC. TBC will place the graphic in the file. You can delete it of turn it off if you find the offending file. You probably have several stacked on top of each other.

Great news

Downloaded, signed in and it had all my added content from the regular model already loaded.

:good: