On Sept 5th Google Earth Blog (top GE watchdog) posted the news that the license agreement for Google Earth Free and Plus Version 4.2 (released August 22) has been revised significantly, though this wasn’t publicized earlier. Business users can now use the browser for internal communications. This is good news for “business geographic developers”. We can now write customized KML files with internal geographic data which can be distributed within a company to employees, and viewed in the Google Earth browser, the free version as opposed to the costly Pro version. It appears that it is still illegal to use Google Earth for “external business (commercial) applications”, but the internal license opens up some very interesting possibilities! More on this change is available at GEB, and also James Fee.
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