The Google Earth Server delivers the Google Earth database to the client software and includes optional supporting services such as geo-coding.

Data is ingested into the Google Earth Enterprise system using Google Earth Fusion. Google Earth Server can be configured as an overlay server (your enterprise data is added to the ASP basemap hosted and delivered by Google) or as a stand-alone server (the entire dataset is locally hosted).

The overlay mode enables you to benefit from Google’s rich, multi-Terabyte basemap without the expense or hassle of licensing this data separately, updating, and hosting it. Yet your enterprise data – vehicle locations, store data, properties, GIS layers – can be viewed in this rich context.

The stand-alone mode enables organizations that possess large amounts of unique geo data to host and deliver these to the entire organization in an easy to use UI (Google Earth).

A single Google Earth Server can reliably support hundreds of concurrent users and many thousands of total users.

Google Earth Server features:

• Efficient design enables fast access to massive datasets
• Supports up to 250 users per server
• Data encryption
• Designed, tested, and proven support for load-balanced configurations supporting many thousands of concurrent users
• Geo-coding module – supports street level geo-coding
• Authentication module – supports x509 certificates or proprietary authentication scheme as well as LDAP director services for access control

System requirements:

• 1 x 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 (or greater)
• 1 GB main memory
• 100/1000 NIC
• SuSE Enterprise 9/SuSE Linux Pro 9