Google Earth Plugin for Google Maps, Still Eat Lot of Resources

May 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Headlines, Internet, Travel


As you know, Google Maps for now has a new facility called “Earth View”. Earth View is facility from Google Earth as an add-on for Google Maps, in addition to get the 3D perspective view where we can see the objects on the map in three dimensions perspective.

Google explains: “Earth view uses the same technology that powers the Google Earth desktop application. It allows you to view the same high-resolution imagery, terrain, and 3D cityscapes, all from right within your browser. We built the new Earth view on the Google Earth API and browser plugin, which make it easy for web developers to include Google Earth in their own websites.”

To be able to run this facility, you are required to download and install the Google Earth Plugin which is hosted by Google. But if you already have the latest version of Google Earth, you no longer need the Google Earth Plugin.

But in fact, the use of 3D effect on Google Maps, reaping a variety of criticism, even from Google blog itself, the commentators tells the effects of Google Earth Plugin on Google Maps with their PC. The first thing that is criticism by them is a fairly large memory usage. In addition, some of the web browsers also have a problem about the Plugin to work.

The following are few quotations from Google Blog Comments:
Google Earth plug-in uses a lot of resources

it slows down your browser

Open your operating system’s task manager and you’ll notice that geplugin.exe uses at least 100 MB of RAM. Chrome’s plugin is just a bootstrap.

Since there’s no Linux version of the plugin, I can’t even try it.”

Nevertheless, we still remain and fully supports about the implementation of Google Earth Plugin for Google Maps 3D effect, because this is a new breakthrough in digital mapping world.



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