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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 118763" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Nancy - the cell phone part was a joke. Google Earth is a program that you can download to your computer. Once you download it, you will have an icon on your desktop that you can click on to get in to it. </p><p></p><p>Google Earth is detailed satellite photo images of pretty much anywhere on the earth. But they ARE NOT LIVE IMAGES. You will see a picture of the earth, and when you type in a location, even a precise street address, it will zoom right in on that place. The image starts out a little blurred but it clears and you can control it to zoom up or down and move from side to side. You can set it to show the street names and use it as a map - makes it much easier to actually find something when you can see what's around it.</p><p></p><p>It's a tremendous amount of fun to play with. The first day I downloaded it, I was up till 1:00 a.m. checking it out. I've "visited" the pyramids in Egypt and Ground Zero in New York City. I "explored" the old neighborhood I lived in as a kid, and I now know that the people who bought my parents old house have put in a pool! And I saw my daughters house in S. Carolina clear enough to see their black car in the driveway and the trees in their back yard! What you see is rooftops because the view is from looking straight down, but it's all kinds of fun.</p><p></p><p>If you google "Google Earth" (and now they have "Google Earth Plus") there will be a link that will take you to the site to download it. You'll LIKE it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 118763, member: 1883"] Nancy - the cell phone part was a joke. Google Earth is a program that you can download to your computer. Once you download it, you will have an icon on your desktop that you can click on to get in to it. Google Earth is detailed satellite photo images of pretty much anywhere on the earth. But they ARE NOT LIVE IMAGES. You will see a picture of the earth, and when you type in a location, even a precise street address, it will zoom right in on that place. The image starts out a little blurred but it clears and you can control it to zoom up or down and move from side to side. You can set it to show the street names and use it as a map - makes it much easier to actually find something when you can see what's around it. It's a tremendous amount of fun to play with. The first day I downloaded it, I was up till 1:00 a.m. checking it out. I've "visited" the pyramids in Egypt and Ground Zero in New York City. I "explored" the old neighborhood I lived in as a kid, and I now know that the people who bought my parents old house have put in a pool! And I saw my daughters house in S. Carolina clear enough to see their black car in the driveway and the trees in their back yard! What you see is rooftops because the view is from looking straight down, but it's all kinds of fun. If you google "Google Earth" (and now they have "Google Earth Plus") there will be a link that will take you to the site to download it. You'll LIKE it! [/QUOTE]
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