7. Navigating Google Earth

Learn how to use and navigate Google Earth.

If you like the maps you get with Google Maps, you’re going to love Google Earth. Google Earth is a software program that lets you create, view, and save high-resolution, three-dimensional fly-bys of any location on the planet. This might sound like a high-end, expensive piece of software, and you’d be half-right; Google Earth is a program with high-end features, but it’s available free of charge for all users.

Read on to learn more.

Getting to Know Google Earth

Unlike Google Maps, which is a web-based application, Google Earths is a traditional software application that retrieves much of its data from the Web. That is, you run it from your computer as you would a normal ...

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