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Google Earth – Geography making History

by Prakash Rangarajan on May 16, 2007

There are no two doubts about the fact that Google Earth is one of the coolest things on the internet right now. There are not many in the web space who dont know about Google Earth now. From kindergarten to commerce, the Google Earth fever has left none untouched. GE is one new age tool that awaits further exploitation.

Start clicking, zoom, hover and pronto, you just reach where you want to be.The first thing that I did and I presume that every one does when they log into Google Earth is to search for their residence location. Thanks to the data collected by NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, the digital elevation model (DEM) was made possible. And this means fantastic views of anyplace on earth, anywhere, anytime, and that too in 3-Dimensional format. Fantasies can’t get any better.

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