Big update Google Earth: virtual tours and high-quality three-dimensional maps

Just in time for Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22, Google has released a major update for Google Earth. The new version allows you to view three-dimensional maps of various places. And thanks to the interactive tours of the world can learn a lot.

Excursions are made up by scientists, by documentary and other experts. According to Google, the application is available for more than 50 of these tours. That they are detected in the new section Voyager.

Among them - the tour of the Gombe National Park, Tanzania. Guide in this case acts as an expert on primates and the UN Ambassador of Peace Jane Goodall (Jane Goodall). Also available are six adventures in video format from BBC Earth. In the list there is also a children's tour of the Mayan ruins, led by a character education program "Sesame Street."

In the updated Google Earth appeared button I'm Feeling Lucky - analogue of the "I'm Feeling Lucky" on Google search. Click on it, and the service will send you to a random place. Perhaps it will be the opera house in Italy or hot springs in Japan. Here, the application allows to look through the cards with interesting facts about the "visited" place.

In addition, Landmark and surroundings can be viewed in three dimensions. To do this, just click on the button 3D in the lower right corner of the screen. In the Google did a great job over the three-dimensional models of objects and made them fairly crisp.

The developers note that the creation of an updated service took two years. Now you can try out innovations through Chrome and Google Earth app for Android. Later opportunities will reach iOS and other browsers.

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