Google has recently released a browser plug-in that lets you experience Google Earth inside a browser.
The new plugin is accompanied by an API that web developers can use to easily incorporate Google Earth into their applications which can then be embedded in web pages. The Google Earth API is a free beta service, available for any web site that is free to consumers.
Driven by an extensive JavaScript API, you can control the camera; create lines, markers, and polygons; import 3D models from the web and overlay them anywhere on the planet. In fact, you can even overlay your content over different planets, stars, and galaxies by toggling Sky mode, letting you build 3D Google Sky mashups. You can also enable 3D buildings with a single line of JavaScript, attach JavaScript callbacks to mouse events, fetch KML data from the web, and more. Our goal is to open up the entire core of Google Earth to developers in the hopes that you’ll build the next great geo-based 3D application, and change (yet again) how we view the world.
This version of the plugin supports the following browsers:
- IE 6.0+
- IE 7.0+
- Firefox 2.x or 2.0x (Firefox 3.0 support coming soon)
- Netscape 7.1+
- Mozilla 1.4+
- Flock 1.0+
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