Drag the Google Earth icon from your Applications folder to your dock to create an alias (Mac).

Close the Google Earth disk image window, then drag both the Google Earth.dmg and the Google Earth volume (below) to the trash to clear them from your desktop.

Drag the Google Earth.app to wherever you want to install it typically, the Applications (or Programs) folder on your hard drive.

On a Mac, the Google Earth disk image file (.dmg) will automatically mount on your desktop and open.

Click the Continue (Mac) or Save (PC) button to finish the download.

At the end of the download, an alert box will tell you that the.

The Downloads window will show the progress of your download.

Your browser will display a Thank You page while Google Earth automatically downloads in the background. The page automatically detects your operating system, so you don't have to worry about choosing a particular version.

Click here to go to the Google Earth download page.

Advanced versions of Google Earth are available for purchase, but this activity uses the free version. It displays satellite images, aerial photographs, and graphic layers on personal computers by delivering them over the Internet. Google Earth is a freely available virtual globe program. However, be sure to update to the latest version of Google Earth in order to be able to complete this chapter.

These instructions are only necessary if you do not already have Google Earth 6 on your computer.

Desktop version google earth