Filed under: Google Earth
Google is just everywhere. We all know it. Some love Google’s everywhereness. Some definitely do not. It’s clear that they own a lot of businesses and they’re buying more all the time. So when you’re anti-”The Man” the name “Google” can cause feelings of discomfort, much in the way that “Starbucks” can.
But there is definitely more to Google than just a giant game of Monopoly.
Filed under: Google Earth
As you probably already know, Google Earth 5.0 has now added features which allow you to look at the world UNDER the water, using the flight simulator, as well as above it. This is really fun and exciting, and creates a lot of wonderful possibilities for scuba divers, archaeologists and historians, to name a few.
The Washington Post, just yesterday, published an excellent article about some of the bodies of water which Google now features, as well as a lot of other great information that I could reword here. But I thought it would probably be smartest to just have you take a look at that original article. There are a TON of amazing links within that article as well. I definitely suggest you look around there, click on the links, watch things, read things, download things, find out things.
Posted on April 15th, 2009 by EarthGirl
Filed under: Google Earth
Over the years I’ve read countless complaints about imagery that’s years old in various locations on the Earth when viewed in Google Earth. While Google Earth is always working to update its imagery, increase the resolution of images, I thought you might like to know how the whole procedure works
Google Earth acquires and licenses its satellite images from many different sources, including government organizations, directly from satellites, and from companies who sell their imagery to clients such as Google Earth.
Posted on March 31st, 2009 by EarthGirl
Filed under: Google Earth
In looking around blogs and Google Earth’s website, I decided I hadn’t given you enough information about Google Mars. Also I found a Youtube video from Google Earth, which shows you exactly how to use Google Mars, its features and more.
So without further ado, here is the link to Google’s Google Mars video:
And the link to the official Google Mars page. You can download Google Earth right from that page:
Hope this helps!
Technorati Tags: google earth, google mars, satellite imagery, 3d globe, satellite maps
Posted on March 17th, 2009 by EarthGirl
Filed under: Reviews
Before Google Earth, we rely on aerial photos when we want to see specific places from the top view. These aerial imagery data are collected while riding an airplane. However, the height that the airplane can fly is very much limited. It’s very dangerous if the photos would be taken from a higher position than usual. The sky is the limit, but just figuratively speaking.
Posted on February 5th, 2009 by roselyn
Filed under: Reviews
It seems the Internet will never run out of cool and interesting posts about the usefulness of Google Earth. This amazing software is really a product of pure ingenuity because it continuously creates and develops new innovations and applications to keep its users hooked. Who would have thought that almost all places on Earth would be visible to the naked eye someday? Even the photos of global maps when the Earth was still young are now displayed by Google Earth. Everyone can view satellite images and global maps through personal mobile phones these days. Through use of old map overlays on modern maps of today, people can learn about the many changes that mankind had inflicted to our world. Just read on to know more about Google Earth.
Posted on January 20th, 2009 by roselyn
Filed under: Google Earth, news
New cars, not yet released and still getting tested, are good sources of money for spy photographers. Photos of these hot cars are really in-demand, even those that were taken from afar, or a bit blurred, or covered with misleading camouflage.
Car manufacturers always test their new cars on public roads in different parts of the world. And these car companies have different strategies to avoid getting ’shot’ by spy photographers. They used every technique they could think of to hide and disguise their new car models when they go testing. The Mercedes had been known to use decoy cars to screen the prototype from any camera.
Posted on January 6th, 2009 by roselyn
Filed under: Google Earth
Are you one of those children who never forgot to hang a Christmas sock? You really believed that there’s a Santa Claus so you always wrote a letter to him as a child. And when you finally discovered that Santa Claus is not a real person, you did not get angry or frustrated. A bit disappointed and sad, yes; but since you love Santa very much, you carried on with the tradition. You tell fond stories about Santa and the Christmas gifts he gave you to your young nieces or nephews; if you did not have your own kids yet. You may have a secret yearning to be the innocent child who believes that Santa Claus will bring you a wonderful gift once again without knowing it.
Posted on December 29th, 2008 by roselyn
Filed under: 3D Satellite Imagery, Google Earth
Google Earth knows no end on creating new goodies to offer the world. The latest offering is an upgraded version of Google Earth Pro (v4.2.0206.5731), which combines well-known Google features (such as satellite maps, satellite imagery, and Google Search superior capability). The main goal is to put the information on world geography at the users’ fingertips.
Through Google Earth Pro, your secret dream to fly like Superman or to swing from building to building like Spiderman may come true by just clicking your mouse. One minute, you seem floating in the outer space and looking down the Earth. Suddenly you find yourself swooping downwards to a location and at a speed of your choice. Type any address on the search field and pound on ‘enter’ key–whoops!–you’re able to zoom in at once.
Posted on December 28th, 2008 by roselyn
Filed under: Google Earth, Satellite maps
In 2005, British scientists were using internet maps by Google Earth to find a future location for a conservation project. And it was quite by accident that they discovered an unknown and unmapped territory in the middle of Africa.
Several years before, only the local villagers in north of Mozambique knew about the location of a lush and virgin forest in the vicinity. No maps had ever featured this place. Not in any scientific collections or literature. However, large satellite photos shown in Google Earth’s website had divulged the existence of the secret mountain forest, locally known as Mount Mabu.
Posted on December 28th, 2008 by roselyn
Posted on April 22nd, 2009 by EarthGirl
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