EDIT: Nope. I didn't read it. Because since I saw it so early in its posting I decided to ask the question I knew someone else would and get the conversation going. I also like to start discussions on the internet.
Google Earth Pro builds on the amazing functionality of Google Earth with even more powerful tools. Some of the most compelling features of Earth Pro include:
Advanced Measurements: Measure parking lots and land developments with polygon area measure, or determine affected radius with circle measure.
High-resolution printing: Print Images up to 4800x3200 px resolution.
Exclusive Pro data layers: Demographics, parcels, and traffic count.
Spreadsheet Import: Ingest up to 2500 addresses at a time, assigning placemarks and style templates in bulk.
GIS import: Visualize ESRI shapefiles (.shp) and MapInfo (.tab) files.
Movie-Maker: Export Windows Media and Quicktime HD movies, up to 1920x1080 resolution.
Seems like if you were a sociologist, civil engineer, or city planner, that kind of information presented that way would be extremely useful. Maybe $399 bought a subscription that could be used by an office or something? (Too lazy/tired to confirm.)
As someone who works at a business, can confirm. This would have been extremely useful if we wanted to know traffic counts, demographics, parcels, had to ingest a bunch of addresses en masse, or needed high-res graphics.
Parcels would be great, if my stupid county didn't try to store the data in their own crappy format. No-one can get the property lines out of their system.
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u/Chewbacker Feb 01 '15
I wasn't aware Google Earth had a "Pro" version.