In anticipation of Earth Day, which is set to take place next week, Google has revamped its Earth application to include new features, it has been revealed.According to a company statement, with Google Earth 4.3, the search engine provider has "completely rethought how [users] might interact with the 3D world".
Google said: "We've redesigned the navigation to make it much easier to fly from the heavens down to the streets of your town. And with all of the great user-created buildings in the 3D Warehouse, we wanted to make it easy for you to get right up close to see the rich detail."
Among the new features of Google Earth are improved navigation capabilities, including a better zoom control which enables users to travel from images of outer space to street-level views in a "single seamless motion".
Additionally, new 3D content has been added, such as photo-textured cities and towns in the US and elsewhere.
Web surfers will also be able to find Google's Street View feature on the application as it makes its Google Earth debut.
Meanwhile, the service is now available in 12 new languages, including Danish, Spanish, Indonesian and Romanian.
In related news, Google announced earlier this week that it has expanded its Maps application by adding a feature which showcases embedded YouTube videos. Such videos have been available in Google Earth since October last year.
