Google Earth Now Has 80 Million Beautiful Trees [Video]

Say Hello to Google Earth 6 , complete with 80 million freshly planted 3D-modeled trees. I never really pay much attention to real life trees, but for some reason this strikes me as indescribably awesome.

I really can’t put my finger on it, why exactly I’m so impressed by all of the new flowers in Google Earth-the updated software has roughly 80 million ofin 50 different species in San Francisco, Tokyo, Athens and other cities-but impressed I am. The buildings and streets and topography of Google Earth-all those things are pretty essential, I’d say, whenever you’re looking to recreate our planet. But something about mapping nearly 100 million trees seems delightfully superfluous, Google at its most obsessive and bizarre and awesome.

Anywho, Google Earth 6 also allows you to dive seamlessly into Street View mode, further blurring the line between the important world and the only Google has meticulously recreated with pixels.

Google Earth 6 is available for download now . And what do we expect in the end of these trees? Probably leagues of 3D-modeled conservationists. [ Google via TechCrunch ]

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