Archive for December, 2008
Google has recently announced that Google Earth Plus is to be discontinued. Google Earth Plus (which cost $20 per year) had the added functionality of being able to import directly from GPS units as well as spreadsheet data.
Google has recognised that the GPS functionality is the feature of Google Earth Plus that most users want and will be incorporating this into the free version of Google Earth.
For other features, users will need to purchase a Google Earth Pro license ($400 per year). Educational users of Google Earth should see the previous post about the Pro grants scheme for schools. If you work for a non-profit, you should contact the Google Earth Outreach team.
For more information about the change, see the Google Earth site.
For those of you wishing to use the free and excellent GE Graph program in schools, there are a couple of technical notes to point out. These have been kindly provided by John Watson the IT technician from Wildern School who helped with the two Southampton Google Earth courses.
These may mean nothing to you, but pass on this information to the people responsible for installing GE Graph on the school network and it should help with most glitches.
The .ocx file needed registering. Oddly enough installing the suggested app was enough.. we didn’t even have to run it.
GE graph needs read/write access to the Drive it is installed on. For networked machines this may be a problem as most administrators restrict access to the local drives. Allowing read/write on the GE graph folder was enough for it to run unaffected on our network.
