On Sun, 01 Feb 2015 13:36:16 -0000, Stephen Wolstenholme wrote:

On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 14:02:55 +0100, Martin wrote:

On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 12:57:35 +0000, stuart noble
wrote:

Regurgitated from uk.d-i-y (thanks to PeterC). Something useful for
free! Seems you have to use the Chrome browser and have a GMail address
though

https://geoauth.google.com/gev0/free_trial.html?hl=en

Now to discover the benefits over the non-pro version....

and the benefits over using Google Maps :-)

I find Google Earth (plain or pro) runs without a browser running. I
just tested it by loading Google Earth and ending all the browser
processes. Google Earth is still up! Google Maps seems to need a
browser running.

Why is that important?

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