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Googlearth

Bolzano 9. 02. 2007

Have a look at your home town from the sky!

In June 2005 Google Team invented a new software: google earth was born. At the beginning it was used only to look for streets, mainly for work. (http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html)

In June 2005 Google Team invented a new software: google earth was born. At the beginning it was used only to look for streets, mainly for work. (http://www.google.com/corporate/history.html)
This software was so appreciated that now all the world employs it for many reasons: to work, for fun, to discover new places, to plan a new holiday, or just to watch and to imagine how sites we never visited are.
The software is built on satellite images, maps of the streets, downloaded photos and the geographical structure of the place, so we can easily imagine how the site we wish to explore looks like. When you find the image of the specific site you wish to browse or maybe know, there you find all the hotels, the name of the streets, museums, cinemas, and more...
Google Earth uses satellites that are all over the sky, and for a good image you can be linked with more then ten at the same time. Unfortunately some places are not covered so we can't have images for entire areas on earth, the places that are not covered feature photos of maps, not from the satellite. (www.googlearth.com)
There are many versions of GOOGLE EARTH http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,172621,00.html,
the most downloaded is the free one, because we don't have to pay anything for the service, but there are other versions, like GOOGLE EARTH PLUS, which cost 20 Dollars, or PRO, that cost 400 Dollars.
These other services are more complete, they are more precise in finding places and in providing information, they are linked with more precise satellites that give a better image with more information of streets, hotels, museums, etc....
The better version is Gogglearth PRO, it's faster and it gives the best resolution of the shown images. (http://earth.google.com/showcase/)
With Google Earth everyone can have fun because it's quite easy to use. The first page is the satellite image of the earth, then the user can focus his search until he reaches the place in which he is interested. Sometimes the satellite cannot find the site.
The Indian government was worried when Google earth became known because the software showed images of the parliament. People thought that this could be a risk for terrorist attacks, but fortunately the images of many Parliaments all over the world are photos of a few years ago. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,172621,00.html