Download the latest version – now with incredible sky images. Short video here. The lastest version comes with a flight simulator!
Take virtual tours around the world
It’s the planet inside your PC; an atlas, encyclopedia and flight simulator, all rolled into one. Just point and zoom to any place you want to explore. Cities, mountains, and valleys are depicted in high-resolution 3D, along with related information.
Find local information and plan trips
Search for local businesses, and get driving directions. Results are shown on-screen. You can easily layer multiple searches, save results to folders, and share placemarks with others.
Explore multimedia content
Find rich multimedia information from the web community and popular sources like National Geographic. Explore the left sidebar and look for the Geographic Web and Featured Content layers as well as layers for 3D buildings, parks, schools, hospitals, airports, shops and more.
Share information about your travels
Placemark places you have visited, then share them with friends. Google Earth lets you add tons of information to placemarks, for example – photos, notes, restaurant reviews and more. View thousands of such data points created by other Google Earth users, using .KML, the Google Earth file format. Product Page
Explore popular places
Learn about the basics. This information comes from the Google Earth Blog
is not officially affiliated with Google. Google Earth Blog is dedicated to sharing the best news, interesting sights, technology, and happenings for Google Earth. You will find the most amazing and interesting Google Earth files and network links you can download right off the site. Learn how to take data from your GPS, map it into Google Earth, and share it with friends or the world. Learn when new releases of Google Earth come out, hear about new technologies and features, or check out the links to dozens of other Google Earth web sites.
Google Earth Hacks
Using Google Earth in the Classroom
Google Earth in the Classroom Wikispace
Ideas for use in the classroom (Word Document) from Teacher Resource Exchange, Scotland
KMZLinks.com has a large range of spectacular
The Google Eath Users Guide: A project funded by the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) with an Innovative Geography Teaching Grant to develop teaching ideas for using Google Earth in the Geography classroom.
NZ links from ZNO
Using Google Maps in the classroom
Files