An App a Day10: Google Earth
Not to be mistaken representing Google Maps, Google Earth can be a fabulous initiative representing students and teachers in any training where having ???the world’s geographic knowledge at your fingertips??? might build a distinction.
While this entry could at no time do fairness to Google Globe (I suspect the time that might be spent smooth beginning with Google Earth is much closer to STI extent than what we would pay out smooth in an Beforehand Bird), some links strength start to propose the possibilities:
From Google
http://earth.google.com/
http://globe.google.com/gallery/index.html
http://globe.google.com/featured_content.html
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/
Others
http://gearthblog.com/
http://www.ogleearth.com/
http://www.juicygeography.co.uk/
The image of Scarsdale seen above shows sole a extremely few of the features that you should be capable to discover on your own in a small period:
I navigated straight to Scarsdale using its zip law.
After finding a historical map of the village on the spider’s web, I placed it (and the placemark) as an overlay above the Central Institution neighborhood.
I saved the likeness as a drawing to join to this page.
What else could I possess shown you?
Directions to or from another location.
Navigating between locations.
At all-increasing layers of content (images, map annotations, factual, demographic, organized, local information…), both within the application and at from a growing Google Globe community.
Adding explanatory notes to a map.
Google Heaven.
3D Buildings.
and so on…
In reality, Google Globe is a wealthy enough use to back a revolve-away to our App a Daytime series (an applet a daytime?)!
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