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maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your
fingertips.
- Fly to your house. Just type in an address, press Search, and you’ll zoom
right in.
- Search for schools, parks, restaurants, and hotels. Get driving directions.
- Tilt and rotate the view to see 3D terrain and buildings.
- Save and share your searches and favorites.
Featured Content in Google Earth
This layer contains highly informative, multimedia-enhanced data about
various places around the planet, overlaid on Google Earth imagery. So now you
can not only see high-resolution satellite imagery, but also read detailed
information from various sources. See this animation to learn how to use the
layer. Overlays in this release of Featured Content for Google Earth include:
- United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) – includes
successive time-stamped images illustrating 100 areas of extreme environmental
degradation around the world.
- Discovery Networks World Tour – enables you to take a
virtual tour of major world landmarks, cities, and natural wonders through
Google Earth.
- Jane Goodall Institute – you can visit Flirt and the other
Gombe preserve chimpanzees and follow their daily exploits with the Institute’s
"geo-blog" in Google Earth.
- National Geographic – this features articles, pictures,
live webcams and more around the world from National Geographic.
- Tracks 4 Africa - Community generated map data across part
of Africa along with photographs and interesting snippets about various places.
- Spotlight on Africa - Flags and snippets of information
about the 53 sovereign nations of Africa
- Rumsey Historical Maps - Historical maps around the world
spanning from year 1680 to 1892, including a Map of Africa from 1787.
- European Space Agency – More satellite imagery of beautiful
places and phenomena around the world
The following is a very interesting and informative video for those interested in using Google Earth in the classroom. It also displays some of the amazing utility of the software.
The Geographic Web layer contains similar content contributed by various user
communities around the world, such as Wikipedia and Panoramio.
   
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