Archive for December, 2012
Tracking Santa in Google Earth
by Google Earth Blog on Dec.24, 2012, under 3D Models, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, California, Denmark, England, Germany, Google Earth News, Google Earth Tips, Google Sky, Google maps, Hawaii, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Natural Landmarks, Netherlands, Sightseeing, Street Views, USA
As they've done for years, Google is once again helping to track Santa's journey around the world tonight! All of the action will be tracked on the official Santa Tracker site at google.com/santatracker. Santa's journey is already underway, and he's currently just off the coast of Japan.
To follow Santa while you're on the go, there is a Santa Tracker app available for Android, which gives you easy mobile access to track his journey.
Also, you can keep up with the latest via the Google Maps page on Google+, Facebook and Twitter.
Learn more about the 2012 Santa Tracker on the Google Lat Long Blog.
Santa to google: You shall not pass!
by StreetViewFun.com on Dec.24, 2012, under 3D Models, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, California, Denmark, England, Germany, Google Earth News, Google Earth Tips, Google Sky, Google maps, Hawaii, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Natural Landmarks, Netherlands, Sightseeing, Street Views, USA
Comments Off :Christmas, funny street view, santa more...British Airways
by lmqp on Dec.24, 2012, under 3D Models, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, California, Denmark, England, Germany, Google Earth News, Google Earth Tips, Google Sky, Google maps, Hawaii, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Natural Landmarks, Netherlands, Sightseeing, Street Views, USA
Comments Off :Airplane, airport, funny street view, Heathrow, London, UK more...All ready for Christmas in Brazil
by fasa on Dec.23, 2012, under 3D Models, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, California, Denmark, England, Germany, Google Earth News, Google Earth Tips, Google Sky, Google maps, Hawaii, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Natural Landmarks, Netherlands, Sightseeing, Street Views, USA
Comments Off :Christmas, funny street view more...Crocodile escaping in Czech Republic
by fasa on Dec.22, 2012, under 3D Models, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, California, Denmark, England, Germany, Google Earth News, Google Earth Tips, Google Sky, Google maps, Hawaii, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Natural Landmarks, Netherlands, Sightseeing, Street Views, USA
Comments Off :Art, Czech Republic, funny street view, Strange things more...Young love in a Chilean park
by momo on Dec.22, 2012, under 3D Models, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, California, Denmark, England, Germany, Google Earth News, Google Earth Tips, Google Sky, Google maps, Hawaii, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Natural Landmarks, Netherlands, Sightseeing, Street Views, USA
Comments Off :Chile, funny street view more...Google crew in Russia
by fasa on Dec.21, 2012, under 3D Models, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, California, Denmark, England, Germany, Google Earth News, Google Earth Tips, Google Sky, Google maps, Hawaii, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Natural Landmarks, Netherlands, Sightseeing, Street Views, USA
Comments Off :funny street view, Google car and crew, Russia more...Christmas Trees in Google Earth and Street View
by Google Earth Blog on Dec.21, 2012, under 3D Models, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, California, Denmark, England, Germany, Google Earth News, Google Earth Tips, Google Sky, Google maps, Hawaii, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Natural Landmarks, Netherlands, Sightseeing, Street Views, USA
Between Google Earth's satellite imagery and the thousands of miles of imagery in Street View, there are a lot of Christmas Trees out there for you to find. The folks at Google Sightseeing have rounded up some of the best, including the following.
One of many "world's tallest lighted Christmas trees", this one in Blue River, Oregon:
Here is a satellite image of the US National Christmas Tree near the White House in Washington, DC:
There are also a variety of tree farms in their list, including this one in Oregon:
For more, I encourage you to read the full post on the Google Sightseeing blog. For a quick look at the full list, you can also grab their KML file and view them all in Google Earth.
Google have hidden Santa’s face!
by Ryan on Dec.21, 2012, under 3D Models, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, California, Denmark, England, Germany, Google Earth News, Google Earth Tips, Google Sky, Google maps, Hawaii, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Natural Landmarks, Netherlands, Sightseeing, Street Views, USA
Comments Off :alaska, Christmas, Famous people, funny street view, North Pole, Santa Claus, Signs, Strange things more...Using Google Earth to teach math
by Google Earth Blog on Dec.20, 2012, under 3D Models, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, California, Denmark, England, Germany, Google Earth News, Google Earth Tips, Google Sky, Google maps, Hawaii, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Natural Landmarks, Netherlands, Sightseeing, Street Views, USA
We love to see ways that Google Earth is being used in classroom settings around the world. Frank first showed some uses for this back in 2006 and we've shown you other ideas over the years.
Most of those ideas revolve around geography, as you'd expect, but today's example is a way to use Google Earth to help teach math! As explained in the Primary Ideas blog, they've come up with two ways use use the "ruler" tool to work on math skills.
Calculating Area and Perimeter
The ruler too can be used to measure the dimensions of the school playground, a football pitch (see below), a child's garden, the courtyard of Buckingham palace or even The Pentagon, anywhere really! This can be either as a whole class on an interactive display, with everyone calculating areas and perimeters based on the measurements taken or as individuals taking measurements on computers or hand held devices.
Converting Lengths
I've usually done this converting between centimetres, meters and kilometres, but it can also be used to practise converting metric to imperial or vice versa. The example below shows how the length of one side of the Pentagon can be measured and then converted into various different units of measure.
They get into more detail on these items in the full blog entry, which I encourage you to check out.