Google Earth…..Fly to any place in The World
New York Times described Google Earth as “For anyone who has ever dreamed of flying” From your house to Great wall of china to railway station Google Earth gives imagery or geographic information right on your desktop. You can satellite image of you city or can search for article from Wikipedia. Without any registration or subscription fees for annual use!
Revisit search results: Save your search results to the My Places folder with custom icons and description, also you can share them with your Google Earth using friends. Saving searches is helpful because double clicking on saved place will fly you back to that location.
Rich Multimedia content: Rich multimedia information from the web communities and sources like National Geographic are available on Google Earth.
3D Buildings and Terrain: One can see 3D buildings from many places around the world. Terrain is also mapped in 3D means you can see mountains, valleys and canyons in detail.
3D models: If you are Google Earth user, Google Sketch Up allows you to place your models using real-world coordinates share them through the Google 3D Warehouse, one can view these 3D models in Google Earth. With this you can Dream, Design and Communicate.
Google Earth Plus: Google Earth Plus is must for mapping enthusiasts. For personal use Google Earth Plus is a $20 annual subscription upgrade to Google Earth. It has enhanced network access for faster performance. Real time GPS tracking and track/waypoint import- fro upload of data from selected GPS devices. It provides greater than screen resolution printing for impressive hardcopies. It gives customer support via mail. Google Earth plus comes with Spreadsheet importer to import location from CSV Flies.
Google Earth Pro: Google Earth pro is for professional and commercial uses, with this its easy to research location and present your discoveries. You can import site plans, property list or client sites and can share the view with colleagues or clients. An annual subscription fee for Google Earth pro is $400.
Featured content of Google Earth: This contains highly informative, multimedia enhanced data about various places around the world. Along with high resolution imagery now one can read detailed information about various sources. Featured content for Google Earth include, United Nations Environmental Program ( UNEP); includes successive time-stamped images illustrating 100 areas of extreme environmental degradation around the world. The Discovery Networks World Tour contains virtual tour of major world landmarks, cities and natural wonders. Jane Goodall Institute is also one. Viewers can visit Gombe preserve chimpanzees and follow their daily exploits with institutes “Geo-blog”. National Geographic, Featuring articles, pictures, live web cam and the world from national geographic, Spotlight on Africa, Rumsey Historical Maps and European Space Agency are from Google Earth’s featured content category.
National security and privacy issue: Number of special groups, including national officials has expressed concerned over the availability of high resolution pictures of sensitive locations like military or other critical installation that could be used by terrorists. Google subsequently agreed to censor such sites.
Some citizens may express concerns over aerial information depicting their properties and residences being disseminated freely. As relatively few jurisdictions actually guarantee the individual’s right of privacy.Google, Google Earth, Google Earth features,
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