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Google has added an entire new layer in its software that displays the New York Times News in it. This is in connection with the region one is viewing with the geographic software. New York Times provides with the geo coded news and Google earth provides the platform to read that news in a 3 dimensional browser. If you want to experience this novel way of getting your dose of regular news, you will have to launch the latest version of Google earth. In it, you have to turn on the folder named as “Geographic Web”. Then click on New York Times placemarks and you will be provide with the recent updated news as well as features related to that particular geographic location.

Microsoft introduced 3 new enhancements for their mapping solutions such as Live search Maps, Virtual earth Map control 6.2 and Virtual earth Web Service, Microsoft virtual earth 3DVia and 3D. First we will discuss about new features of live search Maps such as community collections” contributions included after submission. In addition to this, they are making use of this information expanding search results in the scope of business results.

Google Street View is one of the dynamic features of the Google Earth and Google maps. It provides you with the 360 degrees panoramic views of the street level that permits the users to observe the parts of the selected locations of the cities along with their surrounding metropolitan areas at ground level. It was launched on 25th May in the year 2007. Now, it has expanded a numerous locations in Japan, France, United States, Australia and Italy.

If anyone interested to get knowledge about geographical features of beautiful planet, then using world wind 1.3 is best for them. Like any other software such as Google earth, world wind is also free software. We will found the difference between these two soft wares in terms of focus like the chief focus of google earth is on human components of world like it provides you directions to search your favorite places. Google earth also gives you chance to view parks, shops and some famous places of the world. NASA world wind also does the same work, but only the difference is it much focuses on political as well as natural aspects of our earth such as borders, weather patterns, countries, borders, and tectonic plates.

If you want to create driving directions then first we have to design a pop up menu to set the start and end points for our journey. Creating driving directions require certain tasks to be performed like discovering the process for building the code through which we are able to retrieve the directions for journey and then design the route on map. For starting out work first, we require a basic HZTML page, which displays a virtual earth map.

If you want to control the accurate scale and resolution of a specific image then for this there are certain factors, which should be taken into account like the latest latitude and longitude. The scale is also depends upon the screen resolution. With the help of this article, you will get some factors, which affect scale, resolution, and you will get some formulas for calculating approximate values.

The very first problem with resolution and scale is the world is neither flat nor sphere-shaped. Therefore, any flat depiction of the planet is a compromise between exactness and convenience. There is one traditional map projection called Mercator projection, which provide some compelling benefits, which are as follows

Organizing places data: Your saved data can be easily organized in places panel that is similar to how you organize folders and files on your machine's hard drive.

Creating Folders: It is possible to create folders and then move other placemarks, shapes, or folders to them. In order to create folder:

1] Right click on any folder in places panel

2] Select Add option and then folder from pop up menu. Folder that you have right clicked is set automatically as container for new folder. Once the new folder dialog box becomes visible, you can set the fields:

Reordering Folders or placemarks:

What is the minimum configuration that a computer have for installing and running NASA World Wind?

The minimum configuration for installing and running NASA World Wind is as given below. The important thing to note here is that the functionality and performance may be lesser that what it should be.

Your computer should have a CPU working at 500 MHz or more

It should have 128 MB RAM

Besides this it should also have a free disk space of about 500 MB. Note if you have only this much free disk space, you should reduce the cache size of NASA World Wind. This is important as the default size of NASA World Wind is about 2 GB by default and so you need to reduce it.

Earth browser application is a marvelous representation of the globe suture together from satellite images. The globe itself takes turns on a starlit or on a black background, which is zoomed to expose substantial surface detail. Co-ordinate Plate boundaries, political boundaries, country labels and co-ordinate grid boundaries provide various functions of a conventional atlas and earth browser provide more than this. When earth browser is connected with internet, this program actively updates itself from several online databases, which permit it to provide actual-time and complete information about earthquakes, icebergs, active volcanoes, tropical storms and precise weather station data. Much of the data is hyperlinked with proper website.

It is very easy to share placemarks, folder data, and shapes with other people with both non-users and users of Google Earth.

Emailing an image: On Mac, you can email a Google Earth image through Mail application. You can email current view of Earth displayed in Google Earth 3D viewer as:

1] KMZ files for Google Earth users

2] Image files to people who don't use Google Earth

When an image is emailed, a JPEG file is attached automatically to any outbound email message. When the view is emailed as a KMZ, KMZ file is attached automatically to an outbound email message. For emailing an image, do any one of the following: