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We have spent a lot of this month exploring the features of the now free Google Earth Pro.

Google has continued to add to 3D imagery, with 48 additions so far in February. Oddly though, they have also recently been removing a number of areas. This has happened in the past and usually it is only for a short while, but occasionally it has been a long time before the imagery has been replaced. Apparently Nashville has been removed and added again a number of times. We have not yet made a decision on how to handle this in our KML file. Suggestions are welcome.

Google has continued to update satellite imagery but have not updated their map since December 17th. We hope this is just temporary.

We saw Street View added to Bangladesh and Greenland. The two countries are complete opposites in terms of temperature and population.

Greenland.

Bangladesh.

We also had a look at the Monster Milktruck ported to Cesium and were quite impressed with the performance. Cesium is certainly looking to be a viable replacement for some uses of the deprecated Google Earth plugin.

We celebrated Valentine’s Day with a romantic trip to Venice which received new 3D imagery this month.

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