Download Google Earth

Live Search Maps is free global web mapping search service. This is blend of Windows Live Maps and Windows Live Local services. Live Search Maps is powered by Microsoft’s “Virtual Earth”.

Live Search Maps features Street Maps, Satellite Images, 3D maps and Bird Eye View, it also has other features like Terrain details in 3D mode, Finding and viewing, driving directions, Traffic viewing in several major cities and many more.

Street Maps of almost all cities in the world in full details like railway stations, hospitals and other details is available on viewer. Even directions are available just you have to search by location or street name.

Google Earth as we know that is a free Web mapping service provided by Google since a decade empowering many map based services. After knowing about Google earth now lets look at its more expects. Can you even imagine the entire Google map that vast data in your mobile device? Seems impossible, but it’s true and is very practical that’s Google Mobile. Most java enabled (J2ME) mobile phones, Palm devices Palm OS 5, Blackberry devices haves the enhancements to load Google map in them know as Google mobile.

Before going in to briefing lets have a quick look on the features :

We all have searched are native places in Google Earth, but still today many people are unaware of it. Let’s know some of the interesting facts about it. And the good/bad expects of it.

At one side it challenges that just type your address, click for search and you can find any place and zoom out there, tilt and rotate in. 3D imageries, schools, parks and all. Above all you can even tag or save, share your searches.

Let’s be a part of the rein and exchange some of the facts about Google Earth.

Basically it has four headings under which you can do your searches:

Google sketchup is in all a software that is freely available for anyone on Google sketchup. On which it allows to build 3D Models, view and edit your own models share your data with other software, get e-mail technical support and create professional presentations. It is basically designed as a simplified toolset, guided drawing system for professional architects, civil engineers, graphic designers, film makers and other related professionals. Vastly used by the teen group as a source of entertainment and explore there creativity.

Google is enthusiastic about the product's adoption by professional and amateur users. The scientific community really embraced Google Earth from the start and is a key-user in using it efficiently for it’s professional purposes. The product has only completed three years and experienced a substantial amount of use. Because of its new feature installation i.e. Google Earth Sky, now Google Earth is witnessing more use by the people interested in astronomical information and activities. Google Sketch up feature has made Google Earth popular in the creative-minded people. We can make it more interesting and knowdgeable by using it efficiently.

Google earth has many free soft wares so that you can view them for fun and time passing. Google earth gadgets allow you to play, watch movies, listen music and so on.

Google earth gadgets:

Google earth Fun and games:

Juke box is a gadget that allows you to hear music or watch movies. Mp3 is yet another tool that allows you to play any web based play lists. Live TV channels let you watch 66 live TV channels. You can see News channel or any other entertainment channels. Bejeweled is a puzzle game which is more interesting and entertaining.

We normally think that Google Earth is generally used by users like common man who is not expert in his/her geographical knowledge and usually uses Google Earth for small works/projects or just to fulfill his/her curiosity. But, this is not the case. Even epidemiologists, meteorologists find Google earth very useful for their work. We will see now how Google earth is useful to them.

Google Earth’s position marker feature is very useful according to them. Geologists have already used markers to label number of volcanoes. Epidemiologists can use this feature for cases of bird flu etc. Clicking on the markers open a window containing images, information and even a camera shot. Even maps having features such as population density can be layered.

Google earth plus:

Google earth plus gives a stage for enthusiastic people. You can fix any images in a lonely beach. You can print images in a place you plan to spend your vacation. You can get data to do some adventure. Google earth plus provides a superb tool to achieve anything funny and time passing. It is informative also. This is not available at free of cost but it is cheap. All you have to do is just plug in your GPS device and then you can give color to your wings.

Google earth pro:

Google earth gives celestial view: It allows the astronomers to view millions of stars and hundreds of galaxies. You can use Hubble space telescopes to view the night sky. All you have to do is to install Google earth in your computer. Click the button and select a particular place as the world around you flips. Then view the images using Huggle space telescope. Google earth makes the process more simple and fun.

Google earth had launched Google Mars to allow the user to explore the surfaces of the planet Mars. Google moon allows you to view Apollo moon landing. The data is provided to google earth by NASA.

Google Sketch Up is a powerful and user-friendly 3D software tool that combines a simple and robust tool with an intelligent drawing system. It enables you to build and modify 3D models from simple to complex and from conceptual to realistic. Using Google Earth, Google Sketch Up helps to place the models using real-world coordinates and share them with the world using the Google 3D Warehouse. It is easy, fast, powerful, flexible and funny to use it. You can design anything from shoebox, houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects to a skyscraper. You can have your models loose/conceptual or tight/accurate. Hence, you can extend your creativity and imagination and bring your dream designs into reality.