Thursday, April 22, 2010

Google Earth/Google Street

I absolutely love both Google Earth and Google Street. I have used Google Earth both as a time-waster and a tool for a geology course. As a course-tool, Google Earth was able to show me real-word examples of the theories and structures we were studying. The overlays and other tools which Google Earth has available make exploring the Earth easy to do. Upon revisting Google Earth, I discovered that they have integrated Google Street into Google Earth, which is supercool and handy; it's like having peanut-butter AND jam - they're good by themselves, but even better together. I also looked at the Sky, Moon, and Mars images. I was, however, kind of disappointed by the quality of the moon and Mars images, especially at the poles. This is probably due to the fewer number of satellites or something to that effect. Overall, Google gets an A in my books.

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