Google Earth and Google Maps

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Demos of using Google Earth

If there's anything travelers love, it's a good map. This one is probably the coolest program ever conceived! Watch a spinning globe of our planet and zoom in to detailed satellite imagery of any location. Find nearby stores and restaurants, get directions, attach your photos to the locations where they were taken. Virtual travel at it’s best. A freely downloadable program from Google.

Click on any video linked below to get started. If the video is labeled 'Free', it will play right away. If it is labeled 'Members Only' you need a membership username and password. You will need a good, fast Internet connection in order to view these properly. If you don't have that you can order a CD. You can also download our Seminar Handout.

	Topic	Description	Date Recorded	Minutes
Free	Trip-Planning with Google Earth	Use Google Earth's directions and 'find businesses' to help plan your trips	3/22/07	7.5
Free	Measuring a River with Google Earth	Use Google Earth to get a preview of a river you may want to paddle. Find launch areas and measure your course.	12/29/06	4.2
Members Only	Intro to Google Earth	An overview of Google Earth	3/1/09	4.5
Members Only	Custom Maps with Google Maps	Using Google Maps to create a custom map and add placemarks with descriptions and links.	3/17/08	7.5
Members Only	Latitudes and Longitudes	Understanding Latitudes and Longitudes. Finding the Lat/Lon of a place and, finding a place by the Lat/Lon	9/15/07	7.8
Free	Google Maps: Adding Lines	How to add route lines to your custom map in Google Maps	3/30/08	5
Free	Google Maps: Draw Lines along Roads	Google Map's line drawing feature on custom maps has added the ability to draw along roads, or even from directions.	8/2/09	4.5
Free	Emailing a Custom Map	How to use the placemark and path tools to create your own custom map, then send the image in an email.	1/30/09	6
Members Only	Google Maps: Adding picture URL from Picasa Web Album	If you know how to add a photo to your custom Google Map, and you have photos in Picasa Web Albums - this video shows you how to get the URL needed from the web album to put into the map.	3/30/08	5

Tutorials on CD or DVD

If you're having trouble watching these videos on your Internet connection, you can purchase them on DVD.

And, not just the Picasa Tutorials. If you're somewhat new to computers, the 'Essentials' tutorials are a great help. Want to make a Blog? The Blogger tutorials will show you how.

Other topics include, Wi-Fi, Safe Computing and Google Earth. You can even purchase the complete collection of all the videos on a DVD for $39.