Display regular street map on Google Earth

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Published on 2009-03-06T18:46:57Z Indexed on 2010/05/27 12:01 UTC
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I'm writing an application that displays data using Google Earth. In certain situations, it would be more convenient if, rather than displaying satellite images, the surface of the earth would look more like the 'regular map' on Google Maps.

Is this possible?

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