earth.google.com

**About earth.google.com**
__**Take virtual tours around the world**__

It's the universe inside your PC; an atlas, encyclopedia and flight simulator, all rolled into one. Just point and zoom to any place you want to explore. Cities, mountains, and valleys are depicted in high-resolution 3D, along with related information. Or, fly amongst the stars to see planets, galaxies, and nebulae.

__**Find local information and plan trips**__

Search for local businesses, and get driving directions. Results are shown on-screen. You can easily layer multiple searches, save results to folders, and share placemarks with others.

__**Explore multimedia content**__

Find rich multimedia information from the web community and popular sources like National Geographic. Explore the left sidebar and look for the Geographic Web and Featured Content layers as well as layers for 3D buildings, parks, schools, hospitals, airports, shops and more.

__**Share information about your travels**__

Placemark places you have visited, then share them with friends. Google Earth lets you add tons of information to placemarks, for example – photos, notes, restaurant reviews and more. you could view thousands of such data points created by other Google Earth users, using .KML, the Google Earth file format.

Analysis
earth.google.com is good for finding certain areas in a detailed perspective, than that of a 2D map system. One is able to see nodes and landmarks that they may not see on a fold out map sequence. One is able to see different area and city / country timelines and systems. And are able to explore the universe. This map concept works with the Kensington Market group project in the idea of what the group is looking at the Kensington route system and area (which includes the landmarks and complexes of the area). With the earth.google.com site the group is able to view the market's activities and ranges of complexes. The site is also an influence with the idea of comming up with an interactive map with clickable regions of the market. (Something the grou could think about)

Google Earth. Oct. 22nd, 2007.
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