NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2026 Jul 9, 17:31 -0700
Google has created many great products. Google is also famous for shutting down those products, killing them off with casual indifference, when they have eliminated the competition in a product category.
Google Earth, the high-quality desktop product, also known as "Google Earth Pro", is now officially in hospice before they kill it off. The disingenuous notice from Google's "corporate corner" suggests that users can migrate to Google Earth on the web or on mobile. These are low-quality map "viewers" --toy products. I'm mentioning this here because some NavList followers have created tools and custom maps in Google Earth which you may need to replace soon.
If you use Google Earth on a Mac, there is yet another reason to worry. Google cannot be bothered to compile the app for new Macs running on "Apple Silicon" (so-called). Instead Earth is built for Intel processors only. The ability to run old Intel code is being phased out on Macs, as expected. Google could certainly compile Google Earth for newer Macs. This is a small task. But why would they? They're far too busy paving the road to Our Glorious A.I. Future to bother with such trivial things...
