Monday, February 6

google earth

Have you guys seen Google Earth? Dan used it a couple of semesters ago to show an archeological site in Israel. Today I was showing two students after school maps.google.com and they asked if I could look up their houses in Mexico City. So I bopped right over, downloaded Google Earth and showed them satellite photos of D.F. Now they spent 30 minutes and couldn't find their houses, but they did seem to think it was cool.

I went home to figure out the program and find out if there was a way to look up street addresses (not available internationally except in Canada and UK), but they do have user added waypoints. There is a whole community you can join to find stuff.

Gotta say this is incredibly cool.

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