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This latest incarnation follows last June's Google Earth 5.2 and adds three major updates to the virtual geographical tool: integrated Street View, 3D trees, and an improved historical imagery system. Google Earth 6 will initially include 50 tree species and map parks and urban areas of Athens, Berlin, Chicago, New York City, San Francisco, Tokyo and the University of California campus in Davis, Calif. Google has just introduced the newest version of Google Earth, Google Earth 6.

And in Kenya, the Greenbelt Movement will model five forest restoration projects with the Google software. Brazil’s Surui people are using Google Earth 6 to map trees significant to the tribe. There are two ways to toggle this sidebar on. You can find this in the Layers section of the sidebar on the left side of the screen: If you don’t see a panel like this you’ll have to check that your sidebar is enabled. In Mexico, Google is collaborating with CONABIO, the country’s National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity, to map coastal mangrove forests. The easiest way to get rid of 3D trees in Google Earth is just to disable the entire ‘3D Buildings’ group in the first place. There are many great looking trees in the 3dWH but they do not appear to be optimized for GE like the ones populateed by Google. “We’re modeling the saplings they’re planting as well as areas of mature trees, so people can fly around and get idea of what the forest looks like,” he said. “Trees provide context wherever you go and this allows you to tell the story of forestlands.”īirch said Google is working with environmental groups, indigenous peoples and government in Africa, Mexico and South America to use the 3D Trees feature in reforestation and conservation projects. “Google wants to create a more accurate and real model of the world and we want to make sure we’re adding in more information to make the planet more alive and more complete,” Peter Birch, product manager for Google Earth, said in an interview. Viewers can also fly through a section of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Now with the release Monday of the latest version of Google’s virtual world maps, they’ll be able to literally see the trees in the forest - in 3D.Īmong other new features, Google Earth 6 has initially mapped more than 80 million trees in seven cities, from olive groves in Athens to the flowering dogwoods of Tokyo. I wrote this story for Reuters, where it first appeared on November 29, 2010.Įnvironmentalists have long used Google Earth to keep tabs on mountaintop mining and to monitor deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.