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16 October 2008
Holy Cow, Google Earth. I had no idea and I just downloaded it. Good gravy! What are some cool things I can do with this program?
It's kind of a replica of the actual Earth. It's a 3-D map you can manipulate. You can enter a location, "travel" there with an animated satellite map moving under you, and then see points of interest noted there, connected to pictures of the places and comments from people. You can search for points of interest and geographical features and businesses wherever you want to look. It's kind of like Google Maps but a lot more sophisticated and with pretty pictures of places.
Check out googlesightseeing.com if you're not familiar with it, you can use it with google maps but google earth is better. I've wasted a lot of time there.
I am here! (google maps; you can click "view in Google Earth" in the blue bar)
Sky Walker shows our standard dog walk route. The important thing to know is that she usually does a peepee on Logginou, and then a poopy on Meletiou Piga, or Sorvolou. The corner of Kosma Mpalanou and Miniati is a very important Pee-Mail spot, and two mean house dogs on Meletiou Piga want to bite her; one time they got out, and one did! Many cats where M. Piga meets Sorvolou, but they know she's not a cat hater, and remain chill. On Sorvolou between Miniati and M. Piga, we can see the Acropolis; also, at twilight, I keep seeing a small bat flying around here (or several, one at a time). Sky hasn't noticed this. Just past Miniati on Sorvolou on the way home a new dog has moved into the 'hood; he is very pretty, maybe a young golden lab mix, and unlike almost every other dog in the area, very quiet, just like Sky. He usually silently watches us pass from his/her balcony, and Sky hasn't noticed him yet either. This is because she always has her nose a millimeter from the ground, sniffing around like a maniac. She hasn't seen him, but I'm sure she has his vital statistics on record in her Wee Files.
(You may need to click on one or both of these in the left menu, probably under "temporary places" once you are in Google Earth. Or maybe they take you directly - not sure.)
Go to Socotra! Remember those pics from a while back? Go see it, I spent an hour there on an imaginary vacation, tracing the coasts, looking at the villages...
I like beachcombing with Google Earth, pretty much any coast is fine.
Go to Arthur Kill Road, on Staten Island, find the ship graveyard.
I love Google Earth. There are lots of oil fires in the world, I mean LOTS. And they are massive and all over north Africa and the ME, and I would never have known about any of them if not for Google Earth.
Wow, we just bought a new MacBook last weekend to replace our almost-dead Windows machine. I'm just getting comfy with the Mac and beginning to realize it's awesomeness compared to our 8-year old Gateway tower.