Google Earth

Prepare for takeoff. ✈️ Flight simulator is now available globally on web to all users. goo.gle/4fBYnWO

We've recently added many our most powerful professional desktop features to web. Elevation profiles, new import types, but there's always been one other feature you've been asking us to add to the web version of Google Earth, just for fun...

Where will you fly? Share your best maneuvers, views, and flyovers with us!

Moving from the Google Earth desktop app to the web shifts your work from a single My Places panel into focused projects. Read our step-by-step guide to bringing My Places to the web: goo.gle/482dILf

Think of it like Google Docs: most of the time you wouldn't keep 15 years of work in one file. Product Manager John Scheeler shows how to bring over one active top-level folder at a time, choose between editable Map Features and read-only Data Layers for large files, and pin always-on folders as Reference Projects.

Work locally with Google Earth web! Read our new guide on choosing between local KML files and Google Drive projects: goo.gle/4imCXxY

We've rebuilt the local KML editor on the web so you can open KML and KMZ files from your computer, edit them on the map, and save updates directly back to your hard drive without uploading anything to the cloud. Product Manager Bryan Horowitz walks through how the local KML editor works, and when to use Google Drive projects to share maps like a Google Doc, set access to expire, or block downloads.

The Google Earth you love is now on web. Check out our new video guide on moving your work from Google Earth desktop to the web. goo.gle/4iNvmIM

Thanks to feedback from our community, some of your top requests have already shipped: circle measurements, elevation profiles, project search, CSV and shapefile imports, a rebuilt Local KML editor, and we're just getting started. Our guide covers how Google Earth on the web is built for professional workflows, how you can inform what we build next, how to work locally, and more!

When walking a site, knowing where to look saves a lot of time. Find change between two years with detect change in Google Earth to see how a site changed before you drive out. goo.gle/4jJGuHG

While exploring historical imagery is invaluable, toggling between capture dates to scan a large site by eye makes it easy to miss details in construction, land clearing, or nearby development. Outline your site in detect change, and a heat map shows where the ground changed. Zoom to those clusters, then open historical imagery and historical Street View from your desk so your field visit covers the ground that actually changed.