Google Earth 5.0 offers its users new GPS features

Feb 6, 2009 13:50 GMT  ·  By

Google Earth is a great application for exploring new and exciting places, and its complex features provide you with the means to go anywhere on Earth and view 3D satellite images, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, and even the ocean.

Now, the new and improved Google Earth offers you the possibility to relive your trips around the world by using a GPS device. Google Earth 5.0 allows you to import GPS track information directly from your GPS receiver fast and easy. Previously, this functionality was available only for Google Earth Plus users, but now it is available for everyone.

GPS devices, as you may know, record your position on Earth anytime and anywhere you can connect to a satellite. Many of you use this type of devices in order to find information on your position on a map while you’re traveling, hiking or driving to new and unknown places. By using the GPS import feature that Google Earth 5.0 offers you, you can now revisit the wonderful places you’ve explored on your journeys, because it’s one thing to tell your family and friends about the areas you visited, but when you do it while at the same time replaying the journey with Google Earth 5.0, your story becomes a lot more interesting.

So, when you live your great adventures, be sure to have your GPS receiver with you, because when you get home Google Earth will allow your friends to become part of your journey. You just have to connect your device to your Mac- or Windows-based computer, use the GPS option from the Tools menu and import your data. Then you can use the new time controls in order to animate your travels.

Now Google Earth supports over two hundred GPS receivers, nearly fifty more than Google Earth Plus 4.3, but a lot more models are supported in NMEA mode for real-time positioning of your location on Earth. This new feature will help you share your stories and journeys in a context of 3D surroundings.