A whole new way to work #onEarth: Introducing Google Earth’s new professional plans
By Brian Ho & Patrik Blohmé, Google Earth Product Managers
For more than 20 years, Google Earth has helped people explore the world, spark curiosity, and discover new perspectives. Now, as we look to the next 20 years, we’re building on our decades of mapping expertise to help empower the professionals whose work shapes our collective future.
Today, we’re introducing new plans for Google Earth and expanded Gemini capabilities — purpose-built for planners, designers, decision makers, and community visionaries working to create stronger, more resilient places, cities and ecosystems.
Our new Professional and Professional Advanced plans, now part of the Google Maps Platform family, unlock AI-powered data layers and unique information from Google, large-scale project capabilities, and advanced geospatial analysis. With Google Earth’s powerful visualization and seamless collaboration capabilities, these plans help you transform projects into real world solutions faster and with greater confidence.
What’s new in Google Earth’s professional plans
Unique data layers from Google (U.S. only)
Tap into a robust suite of curated data layers like U.S. census tracts and land surface temperature, along with data unique to Google like electric vehicle charging station density and elevation contours. Plus, explore AI-powered data layers from our latest research models — such as tree canopy coverage and rooftop reflectivity. These layers deliver structured, actionable insights right into your project workflow, helping you analyze, plan, and design with greater precision.
Scalable design and site analysis
Expand your project capacity for real estate development, urban design, architecture, planning and clean energy with more designs and larger sites. The Professional plan expands project capacity to 500 building and solar designs per month on sites up to 25 acres and is a powerful option for early-stage analysis and visualization. The Professional Advanced plan supports up to 1,000 building and solar designs per month on sites up to 100 acres and is purpose built for large-scale and complex projects.
Richer imagery and visualization
Bring your projects to life with enhanced 3D mapping, GIS analysis, and advanced visualization tools. Plus, all users — including Standard — now have access to our updated corpus of historical Street View imagery, adding deeper context with a richer visual timeline.
Cloud-based collaboration
Easily add your own KML data into projects, and unlock cloud-enabled workflows to easily collaborate with teammates and stakeholders in Google Drive. By integrating team data from Google Drive directly into Google Earth projects, collaboration can happen as fluidly as your ideas.
Gemini capabilities expanded to all Google Earth web users in the U.S.
Back in October, we launched an early pilot of Gemini capabilities in Google Earth to trusted testers. Today, we’re excited to make Gemini capabilities available to all US-based users on the web.
With Ask Google Earth, you can use natural language to analyze geospatial data and generate insights in minutes, all within the context of your Google Earth project. From identifying potential sites, visualizing boundaries, displaying points of interest and more, Gemini capabilities simplify complex analysis so you can spend more time on the work that matters.
How Gemini capabilities in Google Earth streamline your project workflows
- Accelerate research and analysis: Retrieve results in seconds and build on ideas seamlessly, maintaining context across multiple interactions. For example, you can Ask Google Earth to “Map the five most recently completed skyscrapers in New York City, including year, height, and estimated cost” or “Map U.S. cities with the most heat wave days over the last 10 years” and see instant, actionable results in your Google Earth project.
- Tap into rich insights from Street View imagery: Access Google’s Street View imagery to get insights from a rich set of infrastructure assets in the real world like fire hydrants, speed limit signs, stop signs, storm drains, maintenance covers, street lights, traffic lights and utility poles.
- Visualize data in an easy-to-read table: Generate tables for clearer, actionable results. For example, “Plot all F1 race tracks and create a table showing the distance to their nearest airport.”
Gemini capabilities in Google Earth brings the power of AI directly into your geospatial workflows, helping you simplify tasks, accelerate planning, and uncover insights once out of reach.
Building the future of work #onEarth
With these new professional plans and AI-powered capabilities, Google Earth is evolving from a tool for exploration into a platform for action — empowering professionals to analyze, build and collaborate with a comprehensive, interactive model of our world.
Whether you’re designing a new neighborhood, evaluating infrastructure, or analyzing sustainability impact, Google Earth is here to help you transform ideas into real world solutions
Together, we have the opportunity to shape the future of our cities, our communities, and our planet — and the work starts here, #onEarth.