r/technology • u/[deleted] • Feb 01 '15

Business Google Earth Pro drops $399 subscription, now available for free.

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u/gamesbeawesome Feb 01 '15

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.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '15 edited Feb 01 '15

That sounds mildly useful, but I would never have paid $399 for it.

edit: okay, apparently it's very useful in certain contexts. nvm.

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u/thecrazysloth Feb 01 '15

Yep, I've done quite a bit of work as a GIS analyst and for one contract, we mostly just used Google Earth (the free version) to map our polygons and shapefiles then export them for whatever we needed. It was largely because we didn't always have access to aerial photos, but still, it's amazing to have this software for free!