Google Earth Enterprise
Google Earth Enterprise is intended for organizations that have large geospatial data stores. Google
Earth Pro offers an enterprise wide installation method appropriate for this situation where an entire
organization wants access to Google Earth on the Internet,
Google Earth Enterprise is designed to run on your own hosting environment on your own servers
Google Earth Enterprise Technical Details
Google Earth Enterprise takes the same processing and serving infrastructure that's used at Google to
build and serve Google Earth and Google Maps to millions of users and brings it to your organization's
data, allowing rapid, secure viewing and use by your users. Web-based mapping mashups can be easily
built with your data through Google Earth Enterprise and data is securely viewable and accessible
through the Google Earth Enterprise client or through a browser using the Google Earth or Maps API.
Supported Platforms:
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Latest distributions of Ubuntu, Redhat, and SuSE
Supported Data:
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Standard vector data formats including shapefiles, tabfiles, gml, kml, and CSVs
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Standard imagery formats including GeoTIFF, IMG, JP2, MrSID
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Standard terrain formats including DTED, SDTS DEM, ASCII DEM, IMG, GeoTIFF
Methods to Access Served Content:
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Google Earth Enterprise Client
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Google Earth API and the Google Earth Plugin
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Google Maps API
Serving and processing capacity:
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The Google Earth Server is licensed to support up to 1000 users during the licensing term, and can
serve roughly 500 concurrent tile requests
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Google Earth Enterprise communities can vary from less than ten end users to upwards of several
hundred thousand
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Google Earth Enterprise can process and serve roughly 100GB of data per day per CPU core. With
support for grids and multi-core processing environments, customers can process and publish for
immediate access upwards of several TBs of imagery, terrain, and vector data every day
Deployment Options
Flexible, scalable Google Earth Enterprise can easily support a few, or even thousands, of users, whether
they are connected to the internet or working in areas where connectivity is limited.
Google Earth Enterprise software
The Google Earth Enterprise software is comprised of two distinct software packages that work together
to build and host your private Google Earth globes and Google Maps.
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Google Earth Enterprise Fusion combines all of your imagery, terrain, KML, and vector data into a
Google Earth globe or a Google Map.
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Google Earth Enterprise Server Software allows you to host your private or public globe or map for
your users to access via Google Earth client or a Google Maps browser.
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Google Earth Enterprise Client Like the familiar Google Earth client – with more than 500 million
downloads worldwide – the Google Earth Enterprise client offers your users a seamless, familiar
interface that's easier to use than standalone GIS software.
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Google Earth API The Google Earth API gives your users the best of both worlds, allowing them to
easily view 3D data in any browser. View the technical requirements for using Google Earth Enterprise or
the FAQs.
Google Maps API integration
Google Maps API with Google Earth Enterprise lets your organization take full advantage of the Google
Maps API, allowing secure offline access to this rich development environment. Extending the familiar
Google Maps API – used by thousands to create JavaScript-powered custom mapping applications –
Google Earth Enterprise delivers an environment for developing and using online or offline map-based
applications. Additionally, Google Earth Enterprise supports the creation of applications that convert your
existing imagery into 2D map tiles viewable as customized Google Maps. Using the Google Maps API
and Google Earth Enterprise allows your organization to build custom Google Maps applications with
complex internal data such as imagery and multi-node vector data. Google Maps API functionality is
included with Google Earth Enterprise, allowing your organization to securely store and share your
customized mapping applications in the way that best meets your business needs.
Google Maps integration with Google Earth Enterprise lets organizations:
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build Google Maps API powered mapping applications with the same data you use to build custom
Google Earth globes
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leverage more complex internal data sets for your mapping applications
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create custom Google Maps using imagery and complex vector data
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move your mapping data to a browser and personalize the application using the Google Maps API
This integration also lets users create a hybrid Google Maps applications that overlay your complex GIS
data on top of public Google Maps tiles – an ideal situation for organizations that have many complex
vector datasets but limited imagery on hand.
Create custom 3D mapping applications to view
in the Google Earth Enterprise client
Create custom Google Maps like applications
Google Earth Enterprise Unplugged
Google Earth Enterprise allows organizations to build Google Earth globes with their organizations
geospatial data. With the Google Earth Enterprise Portable Solution and Google Earth for Android, you
can now take your custom globes and maps with you when you are not connected to the Internet, or
access them from your mobile device.
Google Earth Enterprise for Android
Now your users can view your published Google Earth globe from any Android powered device. When
logging into the Android GE client users will be prompted to specify the address of an Earth Server they
want to connect to. Once connected, they will be able to navigate in 3D and search against the globe
from their mobile devices.
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Search custom databases on Google Earth for Android.
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View your imagery, terrain, and vector layers on your Android phone.
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Connect directly to Google Earth Portable Servers, enabling in-the-field solutions.
Google Earth Enterprise Portable
With the Google Earth Enterprise Portable solution your users can select and download portions of your
private globe which they can serve and access locally from their laptop. Whether fighting fires or taking off
in a plane, the Google Earth Enterprise portable gives your users the Google Earth experience when they
are not connected to the Internet.
The portable solution consists of:
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A simple user interface to the Google Earth Enterprise system enabling users to extract portions of a
globe based on a user-defined area of interest.
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A light-weight, cross-platform server that serves the extract globe on an end users machine.