What can I do with Google Earth?
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You can obviously see a satellite image of just about everywhere on the earth. You can see it at many angles and heights. You can also see streets and get directions in ways similar to MapQuest, and you can watch a flythrough of your route. Google Streetview is also now integrated. You can turn on/off extra content that is geotagged (labeled with GPS coordinates so GE can display it in the right place). This means pictures, youtube videos, news articles, features, etc. You can also save your OWN placemarks and come back to them later easily.
Thats only the beginning. You can download special files that let you display weather radar images in specific areas. Kinda useful at times. I use this to determine what areas get a lot of rain, so I can plan kayak trips on the rivers that will be flowing instead of scraping bottom. You can also get info on river levels from the USGS. It's really great for camping and kayaking.
You can plot your own route and measure it with the ruler tool. I do this for river trips so I don't plan a trip thats too long or short. When I'm done, I zoom out and reframe the whole route, and save a JPEG file with the river route. Easy to email to trip participants or people we notify of our float plan (who could help out if we get in trouble). They can look at the printout from Google Earth, see the in and out points I've marked, and see alternative river access areas. Really good stuff.
Perhaps the best thing about GE is that you get to explore the world remotely. I've been known to pick a random place on the glove, and browse it's features for hours. Though I've never been to Kauai (one of the Hawaiian islands), I've seen the beauty of Waimea canyon through the eye of GE. Thoroughly impressive, and highly recommended. Happy browsing :-)
Personal experience.
Planned MANY a float trip with the help of Google Earth.
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M$I can "walk around" the neighborhood where my grandparents used to live when I was a kid. My grandfather used to manage a store in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, New York and I can see that the sign on the store--and many of the signs on its neighbors stores-hasn't changed in all this time.
See the sign yourself--it's older than I am (40): http://tinyurl.com/3yozs9c
Freaky thing is that my grandfather passed away over 30 years ago, and I live about 1000 miles from there. My grandmother moved out of Bensonhurst about 25 years ago and I haven't been back since
I can also bring back memories of my first job out of college:
I've also looked at a building where I used to be on the management team in Washington, DC. When I was last there, they were talking about some type of exterior renovation, and it looks like they did it. I see one of the retail tenants finally moved out and it's now a Caribou Coffee.
Doorway through which I walked every business day for over five years: http://tinyurl.com/3x2tr7r
I left DC just over ten years ago. But from the comfort of home in The Midwest--or anywhere, for that matter--I can still "walk around downtown" and see the buildings where I supervised staff.
PS: Your quick tour of DC from former concierge: Go up the cross street on the right in the picture- L St NW--which if you zoom out, you'll see, and walk up the block from 17th St NW to 16th St. NW. Make a right and "walk" three blocks to 16th & L NW to 16th & H NW. (There is no "J" Street in DC--don't remember why). Straight in front of you is Lafayette Park, just a few square city blocks or so--and a great place to sit and have lunch while you look across the other side of the street is the building on the even side of the blocked-off and well-secured worldwide-recognized 1600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue Avenue NW. I was there during The Clinton Years, 1993-2000. This is exactly the view I got in the park, with snow added.
The photo is not from Google Maps but this is: http://tinyurl.com/395v2qj
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