One of the sections of the Google Earth and Beyond course that I run for the GA currently has a brief look at the OPTIONS (or Preferences on a Mac) that can be accessed from within Google Earth. These affect the user interface and there are some (like the vertical exaggeration of terrain) that are quite useful.
A recently tweeted post on the Google Earth blog, provided a link to a post providing a few tips for making your existence of Google Earth as 'realistic' as possible (although it may require more computing power and slow your computer down a little)
One of these relates to the atmosphere which can be made more photo-realistic and therefore allow you to sink the sun down over the sea....
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Showing posts with label Google Earth 8. Show all posts
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Tour de France routes
You can download various KML files for the route from a number of places.
Map my Ride have created some kilometre by kilometre versions, and there are also some nice video tours of the route that can be accessed, such as the one below.
Similar tours can be created using Google Earth...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
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