They included them simply to increase the popularity of Google Earth and the number of people using Google products.Īlphabet Inc./Google has an entirely separate agenda from what most people are aware. They never intended to leave in such empowering features. To put it quite simply, Google is in the process of removing all features (from all of their products) which give ‘too much power to consumers’. See the the announcement thread for more details. You can also use the Google Maps API to make the parcel outlines more visible in Google Maps. Parcel outlines can be seen in Google Maps, but the associated data is not available, nor is the ability to search using an Assessor’s parcel number (APN) as you can in Google Earth Pro. However, a number of sources are mentioned in the comments of the announcement thread. The information associated with each parcel varies considerable depending on the local authority.Īs far as we know there is no single alternative source for free parcel data for the whole of the US. The Parcel Data layer includes outlines of ‘parcels’ which are pieces of land with a unique identification number used for things like ownership records, tax assessment and zoning. There appear to be quite a lot of people who use it on a daily basis and before Google Earth Pro was made free of charge, they paid for it specifically for access to the Parcel Data. There is also a link to this page which explains that the Parcel Data depends on Google Maps Engine which was deprecated in January 2015 and is set to be shut down on January 29th, 2016.įrom what we can tell based on comments on the announcement thread and emails on the subject that we have received, it is the US Parcel Data layer that will be most missed. If you open a popup for the Parcel Data layer a notice appears stating that all three layers will be removed from Google Earth on January 29th, 2016. As the names suggest they only have data for the US. They are “US Demographics”, “US Parcel Data” and “US Daily Traffic Counts”. Google Earth Pro has a set of three layers that are not found in the standard version of Google Earth.
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