What is google earth ??

It is a satalite picture of towns, houses, water..ect. You put in your adress and it shows u a satalite picture of where its at








P.S.I cant spell satalite lol
What is google earth ??
Google Earth is where you can look up a place(address) and find exactly where it is and even see how many houses are in the area and stuff like that.
What is google earth ??
google has satallites that show your house from a satalite picture. these pics are usualy old and if you buy google earth pro then you can see weather and live pictures of anything on earth. starry night has pictures of the universe.
Reply:Where you can see your own town, own country, and the real earth. You can search also different constellations and other planets.
Reply:A really cool program by Google, it allows you to explore the world from your PC.





It is a virtual globe program that was originally called Earth Viewer and was created by Keyhole, Inc. It maps the earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS over a 3D globe. ...





Hundreds of millions of people now use Google Earth and Google Maps to explore the world around them. Google Earth Outreach gives non-profits and public benefit organizations like yours the knowledge and resources you need to reach their minds and their hearts..





Advantages:


Fascinating, largely accurate satellite display, 3D pictures of landmarks,Free, Hours Of Fun, Educational.





Disadvantages:


less developed countries poorly presented. Some blurring,slow to load, not all areas covered..








The concept


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Imagine a globe of the Earth. What if you could take that globe and spin it in any direction to look at it at any angle. Now imagine you can zoom in and out as you please surveying the seas and continents. Take things one step further and imagine being able to zoom right down into the Grand Canyon, get a birds-eye view of the Eiffel Tower or even your house. In essence, this is what Google Earth is all about. Part map of the earth part sight-seeing tour it is like the World%26#039;s most interesting Geography lesson.


%26quot;Google Earth%26quot; is another masterstroke from the Internet search giants. Available as a free download in it%26#039;s most basic form it puts the Earth at your fingertips in a way I never thought possible. Want to see Mount St Helens in all its fearsome glory? With Google Earth it is simplicity itself. I should perhaps point out before I start getting too excited that Google Earth is a Broadband specific application. It takes a lot of processing power to run so anyone on dial-up would almost certainly lose the will to live waiting for it to run. However, on our Tiscali Broadband 1MB Broadband it runs no problem at all although it is as I said a memory hungry programme. As such it is not something you can toy with while browsing the net, doing your homework or playing games, not on my 256mb machine anyway as it tends to slow itself and other programmes to a virtual standstill. Saying that the recommended requirements are 512mb+ so perhaps it is more feasible on a more powerful machine.





The programme


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So, the boring bits are out the way so lets boot her up. Double-clicking on Google Earth initializes the programme which presents itself like something out of NASA with a control console to the left and bottom and a large 3D globe of the earth fully navigable via a central console with the traditional arrow keys. Initially the earth is on it%26#039;s traditional axis so we are able to navigate round it the old-fashioned way. Those of us with even the most fundamental knowledge of geography should be able to happily negotiate the continents. However, Google Earth is no ordinary Atlas-style depiction. We are able to rotate, zoom and tilt our Earth to our hearts content. This allows me to further examine continents, countries, cities and even individual hamlets at my leisure. Feeling like some sort of God but longing to see some specific sites (after all my Geography is not good enough to find the Grand Canyon all by myself!) I am able to type in the majority of cities and countries into the %26quot;fly to%26quot; search bar to the left of my globe and it zooms magically to my destination in all its glory. As a working example I typed in Disneyland, Florida as we went their on holiday last year. Within seconds it was located, zoomed in on and rendered in all its glory before my very eyes. Likewise I can type my postcode and of it zooms right over to my house! Feels it bit spooky in a %26quot;they are watching us alien abductiom%26quot; type way but fascinating nonetheless. A local search option also allows me to search for local schools, restaurants and various other things. For the sight seers among you Google has pre-installed some areas of interest so you can zoom along the floor of the aforementioned Grand Canyon, see the Eiffel Tower or Sydney Opera House.





How it all works


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Google Earth is part map, part picture show. Using satellite images from around the world they are overlaid on the Earth itself. As such we are able zoom right in to our back gardens with often perfect accuracy. Whole cities are covered and even smaller areas are given a lot of detailed coverage (we were able to find our friends house in Mallorca with little difficulty). Pictures are not transmitted in real time and can be up to two years old. However, they are still sharp and largely accurate and as such can take a few seconds to display properly when you zoom in quickly. This process is called streaming and once the streaming meter reaches 100% you know your picture is at its clearest possible.





The flaws, whys and wherefores


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Google Earth is a Beta programme which it means it is still under testing (Beta programmers use feedback from their users to tweak things). As such Google Earth is not quite a complete programme and although the USA and United Kingdom are given great coverage in terms of landscapes and landmarks (zoom in on Cape Canaveral) other less developed areas are not as extensively mapped and pictures can be blurry. Particularly, disappointing is the poor coverage of The Great Wall of China which after all is the largest existing man-made structure. If it had been in America it would have been in Technicolor. There can also be the odd dodgy satellite picture too were cloud coverage obscures some buildings. Neither are they complete in terms of place names as illustrated in our example when we found pictures of Japan are great but finding were our friends lived was an impossibility. However, this is a free programme. Though there is a further two subscription options for the casual user they seem to offer little benefit and Google promise the programme is being improved upon all the time. If your house is not listed you can sign up for the newsletter which informs of new additions or reviewed pictures and I can only see Google Earth getting better and better my only fear being that this cannot stay a free programme forever.





The Pitch


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We use Google Earth as a way of researching places we might like to go, reminiscing on past holidays and even as a router finder. The pictures of the UK are particularly clear so it is nice to use in conjunction with say the AA online planner and track your route or an impending journey. It is great for my children%26#039;s geography homework too particularly since its simplistic, console driven interface means anyone can use it. If all else fails you can always while away the hours trying to find a country without a Mc Donald%26#039;s in it. When I do I am moving there!





The extras


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I have recently been alerted to googleearthhacks.com. An excellent unofficial Google Earth add-on site with a variety of monuments, add-ons and tweaks available. I have recently downloaded a newer satellite picture of Disneyland, a 3D reconstruction of the pyramids and a weather forecaster that updates to show cloud formations just like on the telly! This site is constantly added to and makes Google Earth an even more expansive experience.





The ends of the Earth


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Everyone with a decent spec PC and Broadband should download this immediately. It really is if not an essential, then hugely entertaining and rewarding programme. We have and will continue to have endless hours of fun and research and I am sure you will too.





The official specifications are:


Minimum configuration:


Operating system: Windows 2000, Windows XP


CPU speed: Intel庐 Pentium庐 PIII 500 MHz


System memory (RAM): 128MB


200MB hard-disk space


3D graphics card: 3D-capable video card with 16MB VRAM


1024x768, 32-bit true colour screen


Network speed: 128 kbps (%26quot;Broadband/Cable Internet%26quot;)





Recommended configuration:


Operating system: Windows XP; Mac OS X (10.4)


CPU: 1.2 GHz


Free Hard Disk Space: 2GB


System memory (RAM): 512MB


Video RAM: 32MB


Screen Resolutions: 1280x1024, 32-bit colour


Internet: 768 kbps


Available for download at:





http://earth.google.com/








Regards





Bharath Reddy


http://bharathreddypunuru.wordpress.com