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Google Earth
Google Earth is a virtual globe that offers aerial, satellite, and geographical information of the Earth. it also includes a map of Mars, a flight simulator and a constellation map.
538 Questions
How can read UTM coordinates for area from Google Earth Pro?
In Google Earth Pro you can change the coordinate format to show in UTM. Under Tools / Options menu change "Show Lat/Lon" choice to Universal Transverse Mercator. You also need to make sure the Status Bar is active which can be selected in the View menu.
Can you use Siri with Google Maps?
Yes, simply ask for directions as you normally would but add "in transit". For example: "Give me directions to Walmart, in transit." A screen will come up with all the available navigation apps you have installed, find Google Maps and tap Route. Siri will then show your route in the selected app.
Is Google Heart a feature of Google Earth?
It is not a feature of the latter, it is simply another page to search for web but with an animation/ gif with a heart bouncing around and that it could follow your mouse pointer. You could also click on the heart and there would be color coming out of it, "i love you" in different languages are also shown.
How do you get ancient Rome on Google Earth?
Unfortunately, the 'Ancient Rome 3D' layer isno longer available as a Layer in Google Earth.
The following was the original answer when it was available in 2008. For more details see the related links section below the answer including an article with screenshots of what it looked like and a YouTube video tour.
Original answer:
- Check 'Ancient Rome 3D' layer under Gallery found in layers panel.
- Suggest to turn off '3D Buildings' layer otherwise modern buildings will be mixed in with the ancient ones.
- Double click on this Rome Layer to fly to Rome and start the tour.
- Next click on any of the Yellow Rome building icons to bring up the balloon pop-up.
- From the pop-up window, click on the link 'Ancient Terrain (**Load First)'
- Finally click on link 'Ancient Roman Buildings (5000+ buildings)'
Now you can "virtually" walk through Rome as it looked in 320 A.D to tour famous buildings in 3D such as the Roman Forum, Colosseum and Forum of Julius Caesar.
Are there any Easter eggs in Google Earth?
Easter eggs (e.g., hidden features or messages) continue to be found in Google Earth.
Flight simulator, for example, was one such "Easter egg" introduced in Google Earth version 4.2 that once became known was so popular it became an officially supported feature in version 4.3.
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This is obviously a joke answer,but my question was serioüs,what are they?
Answer 2These satellite images are a montage made up of literally hundreds, if not thousands, of individual photos taken in "strips" [a series of photos taken in a straight line] as a satellite passed over an area.
This one image may represent dozens or more satellite passes which occurred over a period of days or months. Later, all the individual images were merged by computer into the one which we observe.
Although I'm a layman in this field, that black rectangle appears to me to be the result of a "glitch" in the multiple images taken, and thus "missing" picture data, and as a result of NO data, that part of the final image is rendered in black by the computer system that combined the strip photos and created the final image.
Answer 2 - Additional info resulting from a comment.For miles in all directions I see no red, EXCEPT for a round red DOT to the west on the coastline. THAT red dot is a marker link to a file created by a group that made a visit to the Eqi Glacier.The only other not white or black object is a blurred panel of images to the north and slightly east of the subject black panel(s) which appears to me not red, but instead reddish brown which is either the earth showing through the the ice, OR, it appears to me that that area was not totally covered with ice at the time the photo(s) in that section was/were taken.
What are a list of Google Maps privacy issues?
Satellite imagery viewable in Google Maps or Google Earth has some privacy concerns but the largest privacy concern is typically over Google's high-resolution street view imagery, where you have the potential to identify individuals.
Google applies "cutting-edge" blurring technology to blur faces and licenses plates on all Street View images but that is not perfect and people have to explicitly opt out to blur images further assuming they can find themselves in a given image.
Google claims that "an individual or the vehicle cannot be identified" but then has this disclaimer "if our detectors missed something, you can easily let us know".
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How do you access Google Earth through VB?
Google provides a COM interface for Dot-Net or VB apps but there is not a lot of documentation and its for advanced users. See related links for documentation and developers forum.
Note that the Google Earth COM API is being phased out in favor of the new JavaScript API that was released in 2008 along side the Google Earth Plug-in.
How can you get NOAA and USGS on Google Earth?
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) provides a real-time earthquake feed in KML (along with other data) that you can see in Google Earth.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) provides online access to a vast collection of weather-related data also in KML/KMZ format for Google Earth.
See related links below.
Is Google e different than Google maps?
Yes, it is separate. The maps section is dedicated strictly to finding and getting directions. The general website is more commonly used, but the maps section is important and very trustworthy.
What is the difference between Google Earth download and plugin?
Google Earth download installs both a desktop client application and a web-browser plug-in.
The Google Earth desktop client runs locally from your computer and saves its saved places or favorites to a local file. The desktop client provides many options for the user to turn on or off such as historical imagery or showing latitude/longitude grid lines.
The browser plug-in provides Google Earth as a core framework within the browser, but web sites that invoke the plug-in use the Google Earth API (JavaScript based) to customize the user interface and interaction with the data. The Google Earth plug-in will often have layers and features "hard-coded" so some options available in Google Earth desktop client are disabled or can't be turned off -- those are at the control of the author of the specific web page using the Google Earth API.
Can Google Maps read a newspaper?
The highest-resolution satellite imagery available in Google Maps cannot yet read print in a newspaper but Google's Street View could possibly read the headlines.
License plates, for example, can be seen in Google's Street View imagery so there is a detection process in place to identify and blur license plates to prevent identification of vehicles and individuals.
Newspaper print the size of license plate lettering or larger in all practical sense could be legible in Street View from Google Maps or Google Earth.
See here to see an example where you can read magazine cover titles at a newsstand in Google Earth Street View.
What are the coordinates for the book of the dead on google earth?
Coordinates can be found in related link.
Which is better Google earth or Google latitude?
They're both different software with different usages.
Google earth is an earth visualizer, as well as a map, direction finder, and general combination of several useful google map utilities.
Google latitude, however, is a software commonly found on the new google phones that allows you to reveal your current location to your friends and family and to find out theirs.
It really depends on what you want to do.
What are the controls for the flight simulator in Google Earth?
For help, go to the below link. Or, in the menu at the beginning, click help.
The link below explains the keyboard shortcuts for the flight simulator mode of Google Earth.
Could the image be displayed faster in Google Earth if data compression was used?
too a certan degree it will. the downside is, when you compress a immage the data is often lost. you are in other words not able to get the hi definition. it might be posible to do it and improve the vieving. but it is a lot of work.
Is Google Linux free to download?
To the typical user, the answer is yes. The kernel would simply be included with the standard application. The kernel in used in many applications and is not a specific download for the typical user.
What happened to the Google flight simulator?
The Flight Simulator has been a feature of Google Earth since version v4.2.
Press Ctrl+Alt+A (Command + Option + A on Mac) or go to the Tools menu and click "Enter Flight Simulator" to start it.
How do you integrate data with polygons in Google Earth?
To show polygonal data with a series of points in Google Earth you need to convert the series of points for each Polygon into a Polygon geometry in a KML file.
Here's a simple polygon defined as a series of longitude-latitude pairs:
-122.431939,37.801984
-122.431564,37.802033
-122.431499,37.801715
-122.431872,37.801663
-122.431939,37.801984
See related link below for more details.
How can I get a Street View image for the day before?
Google's Street View imagery is typically no newer than 6 months and often older. Because of the high quality of the imagery many people think the imagery is "real-time".
For the day before you'd need to look at ATMs, banks, stores, etc. near the location that have surveillance cameras but most look inside rather than the street and also it's not common to get access to such security footage unless police or court order are involved.
How to save images from google earth on iphone?
To save images from google earth on iPhone simply press the image and you will get the save option.
Can Google Earth be downloaded on Windows 8?
Google Earth can be downloaded on Windows 8 but more important question is whether it will run on Window 8.
In most situations Google Earth will run on Windows 8 but there are some reports of users with problems running on Windows 8 so best to try to install GE and see if it works correctly or not. Note that Google has not officially listed Windows 8 as a supported platform for running Google Earth.
If the normal download page fails to download Google Earth then try the direct download page (found in the related links below).
Also at present Google Earth is a 32-bit application so it doesn't take advantage of the all the computers memory. 32-bit apps are limited to 2 GB of memory. A future release of Google Earth v7 will most likely be more stable on Window 8 at which time Google will officially announce Windows 8 is supported
How do you get Google earth- panoramic view?
Street View, google's high-res panoramic view, can be enabled in Google Earth v6 by dragging the orange "pegman" icon (found near the navigation controls) onto the map.
