How To Create Your Own Google Earth

Following the recent Google Earth update rolled out a few days ago, the fans of the application started discovering new hidden functions of the program, which were not revealed by Google. In fact, this seems to become a Google strategy because the Mountain View company avoided publishing the release notes in order to let the Google Earth fans discover most of them. Today, after a few days since the application was officially released and the consumers had the time to find the new features, Google talks about one of them.

Did you notice the 'Add Content' button inside Google Earth? This is probably the most important update added to the latest edition of the mapping software, because it allows ordinary users to integrate their own creations into the application.

"How?", you might ask. Well. it's simple. Google Earth is able to work with KML files which makes data importing or exporting a simple operation. All you need to do to bring your own content into Google Earth is to click on the 'Add Places' button, choose one of the files published inside the Google Earth Gallery and click on the 'Open in Google Earth' link. Then, you have the option to save files on your computer or open them directly with the Google mapping tool. In case you choose the first one, you have to click on File/Open inside Google Earth in order to integrate the file into the program.

"We've introduced a new feature that lets you much more easily search, browse and discover some of the best geographic content directly within Google Earth," James Macgill, Software Engineer, wrote on the official blog of the downloadable mapping software.

"Once you've downloaded the latest version of Google Earth, just click the 'Add Content' button in the 'Places' panel, and you can explore our gallery of KML files that have been submitted by users. See what's popular with other Earth users by browsing the 'Popular' category, or take a look at some of our favorite files by choosing 'Featured.'"

If you want to download the latest version of Google Earth, click on this link to take it straight from Softpedia.