{"id":40,"date":"2009-06-11T19:00:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T23:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nathansonweb.com\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2021-09-18T08:10:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T12:10:28","slug":"google-earth-what-could-be-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nathansonweb.com\/blog\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Google Earth; What Could Be Better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Google Earth &#8211; <a title=\"http:\/\/earth.google.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/earth.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><em>h<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><em>ttp:\/\/earth.google.com\/<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Find where you are living now.<\/span><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Mark it with a push pin<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Find where you used to live.<\/span><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Mark it with a push pin<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Find where you were born.<\/span><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Mark it with a push pin<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Find your schools.<\/span><\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Mark them with push pins<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Getting the picture? \u00a0You can search for locations or just roam around looking for places you&#8217;ve been or places of interest, etc. \u00a0You can mark them with push pins, then you can write or copy descriptions of that place and much, much more!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Then you can set up your &#8216;places&#8217; into a &#8216;tour&#8217; and &#8216;fly&#8217; around the World stopping at each spot!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>People upload photos of <em>thousands <\/em>of places, and so can you!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can view the bottom of the oceans!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can soar around through Space, seeing the \u00a0stars!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can travel around on Mars!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can look at a location, and see how it has changed from the past.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There is free software available so you can work on a building anywhere on Earth and make it a 3D depiction of the real thing! \u00a0There are already <em>thousands <\/em><\/strong><strong>of them to view, done by individuals or groups.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can email locations to friends!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just so you know in advance, some of the map locations are not current, and some are much clearer than others. \u00a0My house is being shown as it was <em>before<\/em><\/strong><strong> Hurricane Wilma on 10\/24\/2005! \u00a0I know, because I have cut the grass since then. \u00a0*<\/strong><em>ha-ha*<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Sorry, the intended map image is no-longer available. 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