The hand icon in Google Earth can be considered a panning navigation tool allowing changes to the map view. When you left-click and hold the mouse button in Google Earth you pan the viewer in the direction of movement. Upward motion moves the viewer to the North, downward moves to South, and so forth.
google earth 3d is called google earth 5.0
To fetch new imagery you need a persistent internet connection. Google Earth uses a disk cache that allows you to navigate offline in the areas you already visited.When you go offline you can still navigate in Google Earth zoom in/out, but flying to new areas will only show a low-res base map data.
You can change the language displayed in Google Earth. Click Tools > Options then click 'General' tab and pick the language setting. Note the first entry 'System Default' corresponds to the language used by your computer. If, however, the language is changed to one where you can no longer navigate the menus then you can navigate the menus using screen shots of the menus in Google Earth User guide.
Google Earth started as an application called EarthViewer 3D owned by a company called Keyhole, which was acquired by Google in 2004. Google Earth 3.0 was the first public release on June 28, 2005.
Yes, it is called Google Earth. An online version is available called Google Maps.
The word for sailing all the way around the earth is Circumnavigate. From the latin Circum - to encircle and Navigate - to sail.
Google Maps and Google Earth are used in geographic information systems (GIS).
Well, Google Earth is a very popular company to view our world, but there's one called " Microsoft Virtual Earth " as I know of. It isn't as great and updated as Google Earth is, but it is another company. Also, unlike Google Earth, you don't have to download Microsoft Virtual Earth.
Google Earth offers a new feature called Sky Maps. It will allow you to navigate through the images of deep space relative to Earth's Position. You can also overlay a grid for distance and more in depth information of what you are looking at.
Imagery UpdatesGoogle Earth imagery updates usually happen about every 2-3 weeks but the updates are not to the entire globe but to cities and regional areas often in multiple countries. Google provides a KML feed to show where the updates are located and also has a notification service to receive alerts when your selected areas have been updated. See related question for details.Google Earth Software UpdatesGoogle Earth software is usually updated several times a year with a major update (e.g. 6.2 -> 7.0) about once per year.
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