The Google Earth plugin is free. It can be downloaded with the free version of Google Earth (they're bundled together) or by itself from Google's website (see link below).
UPDATE: Google Earth Plugin has been deprecated as of December 12th, 2014.
The Google Earth plugin is free. It can be downloaded with the free version of Google Earth (they're bundled together) or by itself from Google's website (see link below).
The Google Earth plugin like the client is a free download. If you download Google Earth client, the browser plugin is installed automatically if supported on that platform.
I guess it is free to use however, you cannot distribute it on your own. In free version you cannot integrate your GIS data but there are another versions like Google Earth pro and Google Earth enterprise.
Some websites use the Google Earth plugin and visiting such a website would prompt you to download the plugin from Google if you don't already have Google Earth plugin installed. This is installed when you install the Google Earth application.If you want to download the Google Earth application it can be download for free from the Google Earth website, whose URL can be found in related links below. Otherwise just search: "Download Google Earth" and the first result with the website from the domain earth.google.com is the one to use (after the ads).
You need to download Google Earth installer then run the installer to install. The basic program comes as a desktop application. Google also provides Google Earth as a web browser plugin. Like Flash or similar plugin when you visit a web page using this plugin it prompts you to install the just the plugin. Installing Google Earth desktop client requires administrator privileges and the web plugin does not.
A Google Earth plug-in is a plug that automatically brings you to Google Earth.Answer#2Actually, the Google Earth plugin is an embedded version of Google Earth that runs within the web browser.
You must either download/install the desktop version of Google Earth on your computer or visit a website using the Google Earth API and download the web browser plugin when prompted. In both cases you must download some software to your computer to run Google Earth. The browser plugin, however, doesn't require administrator privileges, which the desktop install does. Googles Maps on the other hand does not require any software or plugin downloading. You can try out the web-browser plugin version of Google Earth visiting the URL in related links below.
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Flightgear is an open source flight simulator you can download. Likewise, Google Earth provides a free flight simulator with choice of two aircraft: F-16 and SR22. The only good online in-browser flight sim I have seen so far is a google earth-based flight simulator that uses the google earth plugin. See related links below.
You can download google earth for free from the 'google earth' main page. Click on the 'download google earth' button in the top right of the screen.
It can run google maps which is basically the same thing.Answer #2There are a number of significant differences between Google Earth and Google Maps. Earth is a desktop application (also available as a browser plugin) for advanced 3-D views while Google Maps is a web-browser based application for 2-D views. Google Maps also has a 'Earth' view for those clients that support the browser plugin and Google Earth API.See related links below to download Google Earth onto a mobile device. If phone is not supported then you simply won't be able to install it.
You can download the free version of Google Earth at the site in related links.
Yes and no. The out-of-the-box desktop version of Google Earth only has a flight simulator, but there are some demo applications using the Google Earth API as a web browser plugin to simulate driving a car from one destination to another.