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Parks, rivers, roads, borders of countries

Google Earth is a 3D graphics application enabling the viewing of aerial photography and satellite images to show views of the Earth from above in great detail.

Google has taken the features Google Maps and merged it with the capabilities of Keyhole, an application built by a company acquired by Google in 2004.

Google Earth enables the user to not only view these images, but also to view many layers of data provided by Google and by the Internet community at large.

Such things as parks, rivers, roads, borders of countries, locations of national monuments and many thousands of other places.

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How does Google Earth work?

The globe-imaging software Google Earth has become a cult web product . Using the web-based tool, users can fly around the globe and zoom in on both natural features and whole worlds of information added by other users To slash the amount of data they have to transmit across the Internet, virtual globes such as Google Earth approximate the sphere of the planet's surface with a polygon made up of flat tiles. The further away your viewpoint is from the surface, the fewer tiles are needed to create the illusion of roundness, and the lower the resolution of these tiles can be. As you zoom in, the computer explodes each tile into smaller sub-tiles, each with higher resolution, and re-forms the

polygon into a ball. The process continues as you zoom. This means that the virtual globe only has to download high-resolution data when the viewer is actively zooming towards it. Virtual globes also use another trick to speedthings up further: a disk cache. Images for places you have already looked at are stored locally on your hard drive, so when you fly over this area again the software does not need to re-download the images, but instead quickly calls them up from your hard disk. EarthStream technology consists of client software (what is used to view the Earth), integration software (what is used to build the Earth), and server software (what is used to stream out the Earth).

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Google Earth Related Sites

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Google Earth Community: You will find us to be a friendly and welcoming group of Google Earth users from around the world who learn and share facts about our planet using the Google Earth client software.
Google Earth Blog: All about Google Earth...
Google planet. Genesis.: Google Earth projects
Cutting edge uses! of GE
An Excellent site
Some GEC Collections: This is a file that will download and then load into Google Earth.
NOTE: You must have GE installed for this to work
Virtual Google Earth: Virtual Google Earth has a combination of features not found anywhere else, presented in a convenient interface.

* View side-by-side maps
* Record settings with Save
* Create markers with a right double-click.
* See your location on the ma
Google Earth Tutorials: Excellent,latest official tutorials
Google Earth Help: Official support group pages
Google Earth: From Space to Your Face%u2026and Beyond: Would you believe the inspiration for Google Earth was a photo flipbook?
Google Earth Videos: A collection of Google Earth related videos: Find and share videos at Google Earth Videos.

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Nanaimo, British Columbia

The City of Nanaimo, British Columbia, recently started using FME's KML support to provide residents with access to some
of its geographic information in Google Earth.
The City's web site now provides
links to KML data, including a virtual tour of the downtown
core, 3-dimensional building models, and links to downtown
businesses as well as orthophoto data for the Nanaimo region.
Visit the Cityof Nanaimo's web site (earth.nanaimo.ca) for
more information and to check out these examples.

So what's next? Or, rather, what would we want to be next? What kinds of information about the planet, or human activity on the planet, would be enhanced by a digital world display? The ability of Google Earth to display multiple overlays at the same time -- the key information difference between Google Earth and the satellite view in Google Maps -- suggests that we might want to start thinking in terms of combinations. What pieces of global information would you find useful to compare & contrast?

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Maya 2 Google Earth | Eyebeam Production Tools: Maya2GoogleEarth is an open-source, cross-platform tool developed at Eyebeam for exporting 3D models from Maya into Google Earth.
Google Earth Tools: Tools for Google Earth
GE-Bars: Bars Graph for GoogleEarth Free
Freeware (beta)
GPS Visualizer: KML Overlay input form: Create KML overlays for Google Earth
GPS Visualizer: Map a GPS data file with Google Earth: GPS Visualizer can create Google Earth KML files from GPS data files (tracklogs & waypoints), street addresses, or simple coordinates.
PHP KMLBuilder: Form Based KML Generator
EarthPlot Home: Plotting and graphing program for Google Earth
Google Earth Tools: Google Earth Tools 1. Smooth Path
What it does: "Smooth Path" takes the path you give him to
chew on, performs a cubic interpolation between the successive points in
it and spits out a fresh kml-file with the result. Works best with paths
that weren't intended to be smooth in the firs
GOUILLOU.COM: Google Maps <-> Google Earth Automatic Conversion: Google Earth Automatic Conversion
Google Maps and Google Earth - Nearby - KML - UK and Ireland: www.trigtools.co.uk Dabbling with Google Maps and Google Earth
Here are some pointers to what I've been playing with using
Google Maps
API and
Google Earth [GE]
Coverts GPS Tracking Using Google Earth: TrackingTheWorld.com is the first company to offer unlimited tracking service to customers. Once activated, TrimTrac can be installed anywhere in the vehicle, including trunk, under seat, in the fairing or any other convenient location. Unit can easily be moved from one vehicle to another.

To track a vehicle, simply access the TrimTrac Web site from any Internet active computer, type in the password and a detailed map with tracking information appears. Information includes time, speed of vehicle, street address of vehicle and last stop. Updates every five minutes, to keep a user on target. Unit can be programmed for faster or slower update frequency, if desired.
Google Earth Consulting: "Google is excited to have CH2M HILL Enterprise Spatial Solutions as a partner in the Google Enterprise Professional program. We're looking forward to working with their ESS business to extend the power of Google Earth in the enterprise geographic information system (GIS) marketplace," said Kevin Smith, program manager for Google Enterprise Professional.
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