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An interesting feature of the product is that it allows you make "fly-throughs", even in the free version. The method is pretty simple, just create placemarks of the desired tour locations and save them in a new folder. Re-arrange the placemarks in the order they should appear before playing the tour. Such tours can also be shared between users of Google Earth. There are a lot of virtual tours available for download. You can find a very good collection of them at http://www.googletouring.com/index.php.
The box in the top left corner of the Google Earth window allows you to search for any location on earth quickly and pain free, just type in the place you want to see and press play to have the camera go straight there. If you want a more precise search, enter in the place followed by its approximate location i.e. Las Vegas, USA. The program also allows you to search a given location by its latitude/longitude coordinates. Just enter them in the search bar. London, for instance, is 51°30′25″N, 0°07'39"W or if you prefer decimals 51.506, -0.127.
The Layers panel on the lower left side of the screen contains a detailed list of points of interest (POIs) that you can turn on to display in the 3D viewer wherever you are. This listing includes different businesses, like banks, restaurants and gas stations. It also has a wide variety of restaurants, parks and recreation areas.
If you have a GPS device, you can connect it to your computer and import your waypoint and track data into Google Earth. When your GPS data is imported into Google Earth, it is categorized into three possible folders, depending upon the type of point. These folders are Trackpoints, Waypoints and Routes. |
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Trackpoints are the points automatically recorded by the GPS device periodically along the recorded route. They can be imported into the Google Earth application as paths. Waypoints are points entered manually by the user and typically marked with a name. Route points are those that the GPS device uses for creating the route, such as when you instruct the device to "go to" a recorded point from another recorded point. Route points can contain multiple connected "go to" instructions. They can be imported into the Google Earth application as paths.
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