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"Google Earth's Got a New Web Site"

This post was written by Tara Calisham: "With Google Instant taking up all the search nerd bandwidth on the Internet last week, you'd think Google didn't announce anything else. But it did. Google noted last week that it had launched a new Web site for Google Earth. The new site is currently English-only (more languages to come) at http://earth.google.com/.

The new site has a link to download Google Earth, of course, but has other content as well. There's a featured content section that goes beyond Google Earth to show highlights from several properties, including Mars and Earth's moon as well as the ocean. There are over a dozen video tutorials that range from the very basic (Searching for Places) to the more advanced (Importing KML, KMZ and GPS Data) to Google software that's related to Google Earth (several SketchUp topics.) There's also a huge gallery that holds all kinds of content: 360 city panoramas, ancient maps, outdoor trails, castle models... you could be exploring just the galley for hours..."

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Source: Research Buzz, 13 September 2010. © 2006-2010 ResearchBuzz, reproduced with permission of the author.

P.S. I love Google Earth. It's great when travelling to know exactly what your destination will look like and to check out the neighborhood.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on September 13, 2010 (boomark / email).