Earth and Maps Enterprise

Google Earth Enterprise is comprised of two distinct software packages that work together to build and host your private Google Earth and Google Maps layers. End users then view the complete Google Earth and Maps in the Google Earth Enterprise Client or in a browser like Google Maps.

• Google Earth Enterprise Fusion combines all of your imagery, terrain, KML, and vector data into a Google Earth globe or a Google Map.
• Google Earth Enterprise Server Software allows you to host your private or public globe or map for your users to access via Google Earth client or a Google Maps browser.
• Google Earth Enterprise Client is like the familiar Google Earth client – with more than 700 million downloads worldwide – but offers your users an easier way to view geospatial data over traditional desktop GIS software.
• Google Earth API gives your users the best of both worlds - allowing them to easily view your organization's data within a custom browser experience created by your developers.

Google technology for your geospatial data

Google Earth Enterprise uses similar processing and serving infrastructure that's used at Google to build and serve Google Earth and Google Maps to millions of users and brings it to your organization's data, allowing rapid and secure viewing. Web-based maps mashups can be easily built with your data through Google Earth Enterprise and data is securely viewable and accessible through the Google Earth Enterprise client or through a browser using the Google Earth or Google Maps API.

Supported platforms:

• Latest distributions of Ubuntu LTS and Redhat Enterprise Linux

Supported Data:

• Standard vector data formats including shapefiles, tabfiles, gml, kml, and CSVs
• Standard imagery formats including GeoTIFF, IMG, JP2, MrSID
• Standard terrain formats including DTED, SDTS DEM, ASCII DEM, IMG, GeoTIFF

Methods to access mapping content:

• Google Earth Enterprise Client
• Google Earth API and the Google Earth Plugin
• Google Maps API

Serving and processing capacity:

• The Google Earth Server is licensed to support up to 1000 users during the licensing term, and can serve roughly 500 concurrent tile requests
• Google Earth Enterprise communities can vary from less than ten end users to upwards of several hundred thousand
• Google Earth Enterprise can process and serve roughly 100GB of data per day per CPU core. With support for grids and multi-core processing environments, customers can process and publish for immediate access upwards of several TBs of imagery, terrain, and vector data every day