Great alternative to Google Earth

Google Earth has many practical uses for lawyers and law firms (such as measuring the radial distance between any two points to determine whether particular contract or statutory provisions apply, real estate searches and litigation, etc.).  However, Google Earth can be slow to load and is fairly resource intensive, especially on an older PC.  And what if you are using a borrowed computer on which the software has not been installed?

Try Flash Earth instead.  It provided the aerial views of Google Earth, Microsoft Earth, and others in a Flash-based web page that loads instantly, and you can toggle from Google Earth to Microsoft Earth to determine which view is preferable (or more current).   It also works perfectly on the Xandros Linux powered Asus Eee mini-notebook PC.