![]() Google Earth cost on the order of 10s of millions of dollars to write, with a couple of the key companies, keyhole and Where2, being acquired for approx. ![]() Although nothing is as nice or easy for exploring or creating KML files as Google Earth in my experience. ![]() I know in my department we already installed alternative software for most people. I wonder if Google realized that a lot of companies and government organizations were confused about licensing or ignorantly non-compliant or just gave up and tried some other program. And now apparently we can install it for everyone once again. And then we purchased licenses for Google Earth Pro for only those users who really relied on it. Then about a year ago someone read another updated Terms of Use and determined that we were out of compliance and so we removed all copies of Google Earth from all computers. ![]() Then around the time I started someone read an updated Terms of Use and it was determined that there was no problem using the regular version of Google Earth. But then someone read an updated Terms of Use and determined that we actually needed to be using the paid version of Google Earth so many people had their copies removed from their PCs. Years ago before I started at my current job some people had Google Earth (free) on their PCs. ![]()
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