martes, 7 de mayo de 2013

GAFE

Journal about Google Earth and Google Maps


Google earth is a virtual globe made by Google which uses different satellite images to make an interactive view of the Earth.  You can rotate the globe and zoom in and out of different geographic locations.  It has features were you can see 3-D buildings, and mountains. To download the program you just have to go in the Google search and type Google earth.  Then that will give you the option to download the program.  It has a very fun feature that is flight simulator.  To get the feature you just have to press CTRL +ALT+A.  Then you get the option to choose one of two planes, and even in what airport you would like to begin in.  Personally I enjoy how realistic it is with the airplanes flaps, and also how interactive it is.  You can fly through Dubai and see the huge hotels since they are 3-D.       


Google maps even though it is a similar program since they are interactive and use satellite images, but Google maps functions more like a free gps.  You can use it to get directions and it has a very cool feature which is street view.  You can take a virtual walk through of cities for example Paris.  It has other cool features like google sky, google mars, and google moon.  In all of them you get different options on how to look at the map.  For example in google sky you can see the historical map which is how people have been graphing the galaxy throw-out time.   Google maps can give you directions to a certain place in different ways, like for example they can show the directions if you’re waking, on a bike, car, or even the bus routes.  The street view is possible thanks to google vans with cameras that would go around the cities taking pictures of everything however they do protect the privacy of cars they find or people by blurring out the license plate. All of these google map ideas came from diffrernt google employee's 20% project   


street view


historical view of the galaxy

interactive moon picture
                

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