ADDITIONS You are watching " Google" a great deal more today that you did short time ago, even if you don't have a computer.
You may not have been aware of the change, but often, now, when you see an aerial TV shot of a city or of a specific building or geographical feature there will be a small credit line in the upper right corner of the TV screen telling you " Google - Earth" has brought you that dramatic bit of visual information.
The change has been b brought about about by Tangle's rather recent gift to armchair travelers such as myself. You can see fly over any area of this old planet which has ever been been subject to the prying lens-eyes of photographers on the wing. The TV newsrooms are now doing what you can do at home at your PC keyboard. Install "Google-Earth"';ask for any location you might wish to see and you can be on your way to that spot right away. You fly there and see your goal ahead of you and then fly over it at whatever altitude you select. You can go higher to take in a wider range or you can zoom in and skim toward rooftops to take closer look a specific building features, or activities on the streets below You can slant the view you get to see the sides of buildings, walls or towers. You can go around the subject in a circle other right or to the left. You can you can stop and stare if you like, too.
Controls are simple. If I can do it - you can!
To this moment the TV news show are using the aerial shots mainly as an introductory phase of a particular news item about a place. The film would not, of course, picture destruction and death now taking place on some of those very streets in so many of the towns and cities.
You will want to add "Google Earth" to our computer. We have found it to be a wonderful addition to our family enjoyment are re-visiting places we saw - places we lived many years ago and seeing some others we never got to visit in person. There are a number of prepared "Tours" available, too, so waste not another day - get "Google -Earth" and go!
Andrew McCaskey amccsr@adelphia.net 7-23-06 [c403wds]
