Google Earth

Google Earth

This is a great download.
I have been "flying" all over the world with this. Type in a location and you fly there. You can come down as close as you want and there are pictures to click on or links to Wikipedia to tell you about what you are looking at.
I've been in Tibet looking at Taktsang Monastery today, one of many this afternoon.
You can bookmark spots, go to Google Maps with the location, or see the night sky of this location.

One more way to burn away hours of your life.

Im going to look at that now, it sounds really cool.

I have burned way too many hours of my life on Google Earth and now someone has mentioned it again I am going to be all addicted again

I've also lost quite a few hours to it myself. For some reason though when you put in my address, it comes up with my next door neighbors house.

Im going to wait to download it to my PC instead of the laptop .......

Karen thats what happens to me with all of those interactive maps, this house and the house before us is/was actually showing a neighbors house

I've had google earth for a while now. I can see my house and my nextdoor neighbour had an extention built 3 years ago, but it hasn't been updated yet because it's still showing his house before it was done.

It's great though

I've been on another forum, they have a Google Maps Scavenger Hunt, they post an image from Google Maps and give a few obscure hints and you have to find it. It can be addicting. It's easier to find things in Google Earth and then display it on Google Maps.

cool a chack it out

yeah, I love google earth and have been using it for some years now. I also like their street view one but it's not available for very many cities or areas.

Here are some other earth viewers that I like too:

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/download.html

http://www.gold-software.com/download2521.html

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/40155

I am at work right now, so I don't think they will want me to download anything!! I hope I remember tomorrow so I can check it out then! Sounds really interesting!

Oh it's awesome! I found the site where they still have Hobbiton in New Zealand! I even marked my parent's place, lol, that was how I found out that they got rid of their old RV!

Hobbiton is still in NZ - it is now a tourist site.

I love love love google earth - it is SO much fun!

I LOOOOOVE Google Earth! And I just updated my version so now I can see the sky too! I love astronomy so it's helping me learn consetllations and it even shows you where planets are and you can sort of set them in motion on there! It's awesome!!!!!

Originally Posted by StacyD1987

Oh it's awesome! I found the site where they still have Hobbiton in New Zealand!

I even marked my parent's place, lol, that was how I found out that they got rid of their old RV!

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What did you search for to find "Hobbiton"? I tried that and end up some place in Minneapolis, MN.

One day, I actually followed my path going to work, on Google Earth. I can see my apartment Bldg, as well as my car, in the parking lot. It's very cool. I like to zoom all the way out from where I live until you can basically see the map.

Google Earth can't zoom in on my house for some reason

Uh oh! I see many more hours on my computer in my future.

Originally Posted by Natalie_ca

What did you search for to find "Hobbiton"? I tried that and end up some place in Minneapolis, MN.

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I got the directions from some site. Maybe I can PM you the coordinates.

Oh wait! I got them on my site now!
I even found another one that had ALL of the lotr sites!

When you click on the links, it'll automatically try to open up Google Earth.
Hobbiton
All LOTR sites

Originally Posted by StacyD1987

Oh wait! I got them on my site now!

I even found another one that had ALL of the lotr sites!

When you click on the links, it'll automatically try to open up Google Earth.
Hobbiton
All LOTR sites

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Thanks

They used pretty much all of New Zealand!