I thought about installing this program, but have a hard time understanding the purpose. What exactly is Google Earth for? What can it do?

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Google Earth is exactly what it sounds like. It lets you roam around the Earth searching areas you want to see, you can see parts of France and what not. You can search or just scroll around while zooming in. I believe you can get directions as well to these places from any place.

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I thought about installing this program, but have a hard time understanding the purpose. What exactly is Google Earth for? What can it do?

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That's probably an off-topic question, but it is a satelite image viewer. You can see pretty clear pictures of most neighborhoods, as well as various sightseeing places. You can download it for free, but you need Windows 2000 or XP and a broadband connection to use it (it downloads a ton of images; and by the time you start adding all the layers such as streets, buildings, etc. you have downloaded around 50 MB in just one run of the program).

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well ive only uses Google earth and i think its fantastic and yes it would be awsome if it was live but 3 problems would be is:
1:A load of lagging
2:ilegle [sorry is i spelled it wrong]
3:Provoking peoples privacy

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Lol yeh, I have found lotza neat stuff all around the world wiuth google, the microsoft 1 is terrible, I wood say google is the best, or they just are too lazy to cover everything up

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I haven't looked recently, but some Google Earth imagery of the Washington, D.C. Area was deliberately obscured, presumably so as not to give information to potential terrorists. If you have a current Google Earth image database handy (I don't at the present moment), see if you can see the Vice Presidential residence at the Naval Observatory in N.W. Washington. It is where RICHARD (defeating obscenity filter, which did not like his commonly referred-to first name) Cheney lives when he is not at his "undisclosed location."

 

 

 

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Google Earth is great program like a computer program, but it is not mucn useful if you try do do a serious job with it. Like my dad. My dad is a sport pilot, and we figured out that Google Earth is giving a wrong information about a cordinates. I tried to type cordinates I got from Goole Earth in my Dad's GPS and it was show to me info on screen like I am in a different country, in a different place....

So, this is a program for fun, and to view satelite pictures of every part of the planet, but I recomend to you all, do not take informations you get from google earth, it is worthless...

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If I want to see my house very closer without pixelating and blurring anormally, what should I use? Google Earth Blurs the hell out. : /

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Well, this is basicly what Google has been doing for ages and will keep doing in the far future, keeping the power to its user so they have full control of what they want to do, while Microsoft obviously wants to have a much more "Big Brother" like position if you get what I mean. I rather take Google's example because less control to the user is more control to the company, which is allways a bad thing in my humble opinion.

I prefer Google tools like Google Earth and Google Talk much more that Microsofts Mappoint and MSN Messenger. I don't like mappoint because you have to buy it, which is something I won't be doing to a microsoft product ever

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