Google Earth 5 is now in the wild. My first impression after maybe 30-40 minutes of tinkering is thumbs up. Overall it is now alot faster and feels as though the gui has been tweaked for speed. Occasionally there is some slowness but I’m guessing that is a side effect of some of the optimization stuff they’ve done. Google Earth remains one great free resource everyone should download.Some KML Files you might want to add:
- Satellite Tracking KML (Near Real time): http://adn.agi.com/SatelliteDatabase/
- Ship Tracking KML (Near Real time): http://marinetraffic.com/ais/ge.aspx
- Flight Tracking KML (Hourly snapshot): http://fboweb.com/flighttracking/