Google has announced the release of Google Earth 6. The latest version is available for Windows, OS X and Linux

Google has announced the release of Google Earth 6. The latest version is available for Windows, OS X and Linux.

Google Earth 6, which incorporates a more seamless Street View experience and adds 3D trees.

Google added Street View to Google Earth in 2008, but to see the Street View imagery, you’d have to click on a camera icon layered over the Google Earth imagery. Now, Street View is fully integrated with the product, so users can zoom in and see 360-degree, street-level images automatically.

Pegman, the orange icon used to navigate Street View, is also now docked alongside the Google Earth navigation controls.

“Just pick up Pegman and drop him wherever you see a highlighted blue road to fly right down to the ground. Once there, you can use the navigation controls or your mouse to look around,” Peter Birch, a Google product manager, wrote in a blog post. “And unlike our earlier Street View layer, you can now move seamlessly from one location to another as if you’re walking down the street by using the scroll-wheel on your mouse or the arrow keys on your keyboard.”

Hit the “exit” button to return to the aerial view.

Also new in Google Earth 6 is 3D trees. “While we’ve just gotten started planting trees in Google Earth, we already have more than 80 million trees in places such as Athens, Berlin, Chicago, New York City, San Francisco and Tokyo,” Birch wrote.

To see the trees, turn on the 3D buildings layer on the left side panel. One location that has the 3D trees is the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. “Click the zoom slider, [and] you’ll then be taken down to the ground where you can use our new ground-level navigation to walk among the trees,” Birch said.

In October, Google added WWII images to the historical layer on Google Earth. Version six makes it easier to discover these and other historical images.

“When you fly to an area where historical imagery is available, the date of the oldest imagery will appear in the status bar at the bottom of the screen,” Birch wrote. “If you click on this date, you’ll instantly be taken back in time to view imagery from that time period.”

Google Earth 6 is available now on the Google Earth site.

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