Google Earth 6, released today in beta, includes improvements to how Street View and historical imagery are integrated, plus 3D trees. Yes, trees: species-accurate but not necessarily individual-tree-accurate. (Stefan says: “The rest of Google Earth is pretty much the same, a sign that this application is maturing.”) All the details at Google LatLong, Google Earth Blog, Ogle Earth.
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