Google Earth

by Lloyd Braun 13 Replies latest jw friends

  • Lloyd Braun
    Lloyd Braun

    How many of you use Google Earth, and what do you think of it?

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  • JK666
    JK666

    I use it on occasion. It can be handy looking at aerial views of maps to see landmarks. I was going to an away soccer game, and I had no idea where the soccer field was, and located it with G.E.

    JK

  • SacrificialLoon
    SacrificialLoon

    I'll play around with it from time to time. I like looking at far off places like Kamchatka or at some of the strange features in the Sahara.

  • BrentR
    BrentR

    I use it to scope out hiking trails or if I am going somewhere that I am not fmiliar with. It's handy to use google maps and sat images together.

  • startingover
    startingover

    I have a GPS and I save my tracks when I ride my motorcycles both on and off road. Then I import them and overlay them on google earth. It's thrilling to me to see where I have ridden on a real picture of the landscape.

  • Leolaia
    Leolaia

    Today I discovered Sketchup....very very interesting tool.

  • Leolaia
    Leolaia

    When North Korea had their mini-nuke test, I logged into the USGS website to check their earthquake monitoring and within an hour they posted the latlong coordinates of a "quake" in North Korea so I applied that into Google Earth and instantly had the image of the location of the test -- a half hour before CNN posted it on their "breaking news".

    BTW, it is revealing to explore Pyongyang in Google Earth....quite a dreary place from all appearances.

    I was also doing research once on Patagonia and sailors in the 19th-century who would either "Round the Horn" or go through the Magellan Strait in order to go into the Pacific. So I used Google Earth to simulate the journey and familiarized myself with the landmarks and islands and got some idea of what it was like, at least geographically.

    I also used it to plan my vacation last year in Australia Outback by simulating the road trip. I got freaked out at the prospect of crossing 22 rivers in a single day....luckily it wasn't as bad as it appeared on the satellite image (I guess it was taken during the "wet").

  • RollerDave
    RollerDave

    I use Google Earth a few times a day, dozens of times each week. I find where I'm going, I do searches for businesses, I locate shooting ranges that aren't listed by seeing them from above...

    In writing my vacation post, I used measure to see how far away the shore was from the dome I stayed in.

    I am all over that.

    RD

  • El Kabong
    El Kabong

    Has anyone tried the new flight simulator feature in Google Earth? Awesome!!! (For those who haven't, hit CTRL-Shift-A and you will go into flight simulator mode. You have to have the latest version of Google Earth though).

  • horrible life
    horrible life

    Question;

    I can look at my grandsons swing-set, in his back-yard, in Oklahoma City. But my whole small town is a blur. Why?

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