christie tyler. online maps are searchable databases that can display various map data on a web...

Christie Tyler

Online maps are searchable databases that can display various map data on a web page.◦ Google Maps Live Search Maps (now Bing Maps)

MapQuest National Geographic

Satellite imagery consists of photographs of Earth or other planets made by means of artificial satellites. Virtual Earth software uses satellite imagery.◦ Google Earth MS Virtual Earth (now

Bing Maps for Enterprise ) NASA World Wind TerraServer-USA

3D software model or representation of the Earth or another world.

User can freely move around in the virtual environment by changing viewing angle & position

May be geographical features or man-made ◦ Roads & buildings ◦ Population & other demographic features

–Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_globe

Go to the Google search page or iGoogle at http://www.google.com/ (or earth.google.com)

Click the more menu, then even more

Click on Earth to download the latest free edition to install on your computer.

(Note Picasa Google’s free web album also)

First offered as Google Earth in 2005

◦ Originally released as Earth Viewer by Keyhole, Inc.

◦ Keyhole Inc. bought by Google in 2004

◦ Commercial Edition Google Earth Pro - $400

◦ Runs on MS 2000, XP, Vista, Mac OSX 10.3.9+ ,

Linux

◦ Since 2008 available for iPhone OS

◦ Browser Plug-in for Firefox 3, Safari 3, IE 6 & 7

◦ Available in 38 languages

Uses satellite images, aerial photography & GIS 3D globe superimposed on maps

Historical Imagery

Explore the Ocean

Touring

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=GoogleEarthVideoHelp

Tours >Student Presentations

Search & Placemarks >Illustrate setting

Geotagged Photos>Field Trips or Studies

Layers, Add-ins & Special Features Lit Trip Environmental & Science Studies 3D model of Ancient Rome

Search same as with Google Maps

Placemarks icon to mark the spot

Geotag add latitude & longitude coordinates to photos in Google Earth

o Use Picasa Google’s free digital photo album

◦ Photos are only on your computer in a KML file

Panoramio online photo upload

◦ Geotag photos that will show up with a Google map on a web page

◦ Submit photos for review (monthly) to be added to Google Earth’s (public) Panoramio layer & Google Maps

Picasa Web Album

◦ displays map of photos that have been geotagged in Google’s free photo album Picasa and uploaded to the web album

Movie of My Google Earth