What I did
I installed Google Earth on my laptop and then played around with this interesting app for a while including viewing my house.I think the resolution was okay.
I then went to Google Maps and selected my planned tour of Math and Science Museums in New York.I selected the KML option,I was then able to open my Google Maps in Google Earth which gave me a more detailed version of the places in my planned tour.
KML is a file format used to display geographic data in an Earth browser such as Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Maps for mobile. KML uses a tag-based structure, to see the KML "code" for a feature in Google Earth, you can simply right-click the feature in the 3D Viewer of Google Earth and select Copy. Then Paste the contents of the clipboard into any text editor. The visual feature displayed in Google Earth is converted into its KML text equivalent nested elements and attributes and is based on the XML standard.
Below is a jing image of my planned tour of Math and Science Museums in New York (Google Earth Version)
The following is a closer look of the Buffalo Museum of Science which is one of the planned tour sites.
Applications
I believe Google Earth will have many applications in the classroom.After a visit to Google Earth for Educators, I found one very interesting and interactive way to use Google Earth to teach a lesson in Polygons in my math class to view this please click here
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