Serious degradation in view quality. Is fake poor imaging the future here?
New is definitely not better. The new version currently has gone from photo image quality of chosen location to a poor quality laughable blocky, splotchy, poor color VGA resolution image of the same location. I dont care about all the new fluff that now gets in the way of the location I am looking at. If I am looking at Portland, Oregon, the Columbia River, the University of Washington or the Rose Bow, I do not want to all of a sudden be looking at the Sahara desert with tourist trap blabber boxes. And no return capability without re entering the chosen site from scratch. I want the old version back where I could actually see the chosen area I was looking at instead of a poor animation cartoon rendering. There is no resolution choice in the settings panel. If this is going in what appears to be the direction of other google apps, it looks like it will just turn into another advertising page full of spam with an occasional ability to see what your actually searching for.
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Google Earth, v9.0.79