Google Earth Pro
Google Earth Pro is Google's desktop globe and mapping app for exploring satellite imagery, 3D terrain, GIS data, and historical views on Mac.
What is Google Earth Pro?
Google Earth Pro is a desktop mapping and virtual globe application published by Google LLC. On Mac, it lets users explore satellite and aerial imagery, 3D terrain, buildings, and Street View content in a standalone desktop app. It is commonly used for place research, route and location review, basic spatial analysis, presentations, and viewing custom geographic data. The desktop Pro edition also supports more advanced workflows than the web version, including importing GIS formats, GPS data, and KML/KMZ files, which makes it useful for education, planning, fieldwork, and hobbyist mapping. Users may encounter it as a manually installed Google app in Applications, often after downloading it from Google's Earth site or support pages. It is generally legitimate software, but it can store local settings, cached imagery, saved places, and imported project data on the Mac.
Key features
- Explore satellite imagery, 3D terrain, and 3D buildings
- View Street View imagery inside the desktop app
- Import KML, KMZ, GPS, and certain GIS data formats
- Use historical imagery with a timeline where available
- Create placemarks, paths, polygons, and map annotations
- Measure distances and areas on the globe
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
Google Earth Pro is legitimate desktop software from Google LLC. It is generally safe when obtained from Google's official Earth download pages, but it may store saved places, imported map data, cache files, and usage settings locally.
Recommendation: Keep it if you use Google Earth for mapping, GIS viewing, education, or location research. If you no longer use it, removing the app is usually optional; review any saved places or imported geographic data you want to keep first.
Common paths
/Applications/Google Earth Pro.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.Google.GoogleEarthPro
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/Google Earth Pro
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.Google.GoogleEarthPro.plist
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