Google Earth on the web, directly in the Chrome browser.

Google Earth also offers routes to get from any point on the globe to another. The user can save places in memory and add comments. The height of the view (altitude) is also adjustable. In addition to the classic top view, it is possible to tilt the view angle and see the landscape in relief. The software downloads all the information from the Internet in real time: satellite images, street names, roads, cities, location of hotels, restaurants, etc. To use it, you just have to type a place name (sometimes specifying the country) to go there. The resolution is not the same everywhere, but strategic places (big cities) are often very well covered, so much so that you can easily distinguish cars in the streets. Google Earth allows the user to see any place on the globe as satellites do. It is also possible to perform searches (restaurants, hotels, etc.) and to consult road routes.

The user can browse the Earth through satellite images, in 2D or 3D. The massive imagery dataset covers approximately 1.6 million kilometers and takes nearly 5PB of storage! This imagery when viewed in conjunction with Bing imagery along with existing data in OpenStreetMap represents a significant increase in verifiable ground truth for OpenStreetMap contributors.Initially developed by the company Keyhole (now acquired by Google), Google Earth is a free software proposed by Google allowing to fly over any point of the Earth, on the ground or in aerial view. The Streetside imagery covers more than 80% of the US population with 360 degree views. Our aim is that it continues to encourage the community to contribute and improve OpenStreetMap. This is the same imagery currently visible on Bing Maps now embedded into a popular editing application initially developed and now maintained by Mapbox. This week Microsoft is integrating its Streetside imagery for the United States into iD, a popular web-based editor for contributing to OpenStreetMap.

We continue to have an interest in fostering a thriving and growing community of both contributors and users of OpenStreetMap. This includes being the first company to provide aerial imagery to the community for editing and, more recently, our release of almost ten million building footprints. Microsoft has a long history of working with the community to help improve OpenStreetMap.

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