Take 100,000 more tours inside Google Earth
An update to the world-exploring app introduces new 3D flyovers around the world.
Casey Newton Former Senior Writer
Casey Newton writes about Google for CNET, which he joined in 2012 after covering technology for the San Francisco Chronicle. He is really quite tall.
Last year at Google I/O the company introduced Tour Guide, a feature that provided animated 3D flyovers of popular destinations inside Google Earth, complete with facts about the site in question.
By October, the app had 11,000 tours available. Today Tour Guide got a huge upgrade, with more than 100,000 new tours available for destinations in 200 countries. Google also updated existing tours.
Says Google in a blog post:
The new, richer tours combine 3D flyovers, Wikipedia snippets and - for the first time - place highlight and more than 1 million user-generated Panoramio photos in order to create an immersive and educational exploration of your favorite places. Each tour ends with a selection of photo thumbnails which were selected from Panoramio as the best representation of a given place. Clicking on one of the thumbnails enables a full screen photo experience.
Users will find the new tours inside the desktop and mobile version of Google Earth 7.0. No software update is required.
(Via The Next Web)
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