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When I was going to school, geography meant learning about far away countries, looking at maps, and memorizing capitols, landmarks, and mountain ranges. Things haven’t changed all that much in the years since I was in school, but the tools used to teach them have. The advances in photography, mixed with the results of our manned and unmanned space program have made it possible to explore distant lands from the comfort of your own keyboard. Today we look at a site that I discovered that is a real treat for all students.


The name of the site is Google Earth. This site is brought to you by the same people who provide the search engine by the same name. I found out about this site while I was in a training course, and one of the students was from New Zealand. He showed me this program, and how he used it to find his way to the training center that we were at. Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world’s geographic information at your fingertips.
Google Earth puts a planet’s worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, schools, and more. There are three versions of the service available. The basic one is free to download, and will suffice in most cases. There is Google Earth Plus, an optional upgrade adding GPS device support, the ability to import spreadsheets, drawing tools and better printing. For professional and commercial uses, Google Earth Pro is the ultimate research, presentation and collaboration tool for location information. The last two versions have a cost associated with them, and details are available on the site.
When I first downloaded this program, I literally spent two hours playing with it. You can find addresses and zoom into them for a bird’s eve view. There are some buildings that can be viewed in 3-D, so you can tilt the view and look at it from ground level. You can go to just about anywhere in the world to view landmarks. The only limiting factor is the quality of the current satellite photos of the area you are looking at. Download this program and have some fun. I did.
http://earth.google.com/


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