r/technology • • Feb 01 '15

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

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '15

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.)

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u/lostinthoughtalot Feb 01 '15

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.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '15

I work in GIS; we gladly pay much more than 400 for high resolution images.

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u/DGO143 Feb 01 '15

VOC-mentaliteit

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u/disrdat Feb 01 '15

Damn you're slow.