I think we can all agree that our planet without trees would be a pretty desolate place. If you want to visit somewhere farther away, simply click the “exit” button and you’ll immediately return to an aerial view where you can easily fly to your next destination. And unlike our earlier Street View layer, you can now move seamlessly from one location to another as if you’re walking down the street by using the scroll-wheel on your mouse or the arrow keys on your keyboard. Once there, you can use the navigation controls or your mouse to look around. Just pick up Pegman and drop him wherever you see a highlighted blue road to fly right down to the ground. Now, you’ll notice that Pegman is docked right alongside the navigation controls-an ever-present travel companion ready whenever you want to get your feet on the street and take a virtual walk around. In Google Earth 6, the Street View experience is now fully integrated, so you can journey from outer space right to your doorstep in one seamless flight.
We took our first baby steps toward bringing the Google Earth experience to street level with our implementation of Street View in Google Earth in 2008, which enabled flying into Street View panoramas. While flying over rooftops gives you a super-human view of our world, the ground level is where we experience our daily lives. When Google Earth was first introduced, people were wowed by the ability to virtually fly from outer space right down to the roof of their house. Over the next several days, we’ll be digging deeper into these great new features, but here’s an overview to whet your appetite. We’ve also made it even easier to browse historical imagery. In Google Earth 6, we’re taking realism in the virtual globe to the next level with two new features: a truly integrated Street View experience and 3D trees. Now you can explore your childhood home, visit distant lands or scope out your next vacation spot with even more realistic tools. Today we’re introducing the latest version of Google Earth, our interactive digital atlas. The length of a path drawn around the ring road of MRU is 1.55 km (see yellow path on image).(Cross-posted from the Official Google Blog) Figure T5: Using the ruler tool to measure the length of a path, rather than a simple straight line. Click clear to erase the line or path you measured. Notice that you can change the unit of measurement by using the drop down menu. Figure T5 shows a measured path along the ring road around MRU.
You can also measure the length of a path, rather than just a straight line. This example shows that the length of two soccer fields at MRU is 151.47 m (see yellow line on map). The dialogue box will tell you the length of the line you are measuring. Figure T4: Using the ruler tool to measure distances in Google Earth.
What distance did you measure? In Figure T4, the length of the line measured represents a real distance of 151.47 m. Click once to start measuring and click again to stop. Let’s use a line to measure the length of the two soccer fields at MRU. A dialogue box should pop up (see Figure T4). In Figure T1 below, the entire length of the scale bar represents a real distance of 230 m, and each division along the scale bar represents a real distance of 57.5 m.Ĭlick on the ruler icon in the toolbar located at the top of the screen. A scale bar helps you determine the actual, on the ground, distance between points or along lines. The bar in the bottom left corner of the image shows the scale bar (inside the orange box in Figure T1).In Figure T1, north is toward the top of the image (in the direction of the blue arrow). In the top right corner, the compass shows which direction is north in the current view.The red place marker shows the name and the exact location of the place you typed into the search bar.Let’s point out a few things you should know about Google Earth. From what altitude are you looking down on MRU? Figure T1: Annotated Google Earth map view of Mount Royal University (MRU), highlighting where to find the location marker for MRU (red box), the scale bar (yellow box), and north (blue arrow and compass in upper right corner).
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