Applies to: Anyone interested in Google Earth/maps. Works on most devices and browsers (not Internet Explorer).
Google Earth is a way to explore the world from your computer/tablet/phone in 3D. It used to require a download but after years of development, Google Earth is now in the web browser…
The new version works in all modern web browsers. MS Edge, Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari (not on Windows). It does not work in Internet Explorer (any version).
Watch the introduction video here:
More details:
If you want more details you can read the full announcement from Google here: https://blog.google/products/earth/welcome-home-new-google-earth/
Dive right in:
If you want to dive right in and press some buttons (which is what I did) you can find Google Earth here https://earth.google.com/web/
Or to head to some kind of tower place in a famous city, click this link here.
Navigation Explained:
Down the left (on a PC), you get a menu which looks like this (on a tablet swipe the menu on the left to show/hide it)
- Opens an extra menu.
- Is a search box (search for a place)
- “Voyager” (not like in Star Trek), but this highlights some amazing places to ‘visit’ around the world
- “I’m feeling lucky” this takes you to a ‘random’ place on the earth!
- “My Places” allows you to import KML files, these were files exported from the desktop version of G Earth
- Share the place you are now, click on “Get Link” then “Copy” if you want to share a location with a friend (or paste it into a post below to share with us all)
Other navigation.
On a PC click and drag, Shift+Click+Drag, CTRL+Click+Drag, ALT+Click+Drag
On a tablet/phone, pinch zoom, pinch zoom with 2 fingers, 2 fingers scroll
Bits and bobs
Here is the screen shot I took from Google Earth in full which is used as the thumbnail, you can find that location here.
Music to use maps to:
Cheesecake – Teo
Which you can play from The Inner Circle Music to use Technology to playlist here
The lyrics go: “I look over all the maps trying to escape” although the original (before Eurovision) said “I look at Google maps trying to escape”
If you find anywhere interesting on Google Earth then share a link with us below!
Thanks
Mike 🙂
June 16, 2017 at 11:18 pm
Every now and then an email goes into the outbox on my iPad and there it sticks. How do I retrieve it to resend it? The only options that seem to come up are Edit and Delete but I can’t seem to edit, though I can delete! Have had to rewrite my email from scratch before now.
The other problem I have is saving photos that are sent to me by email. Before the most recent update when pressing the ‘arrow’ there was the option to save. That no longer comes up – just print, delete or something equally unhelpful.
June 19, 2017 at 2:25 pm
Hi Caroline
Let me see if I can help…
Saving photos
I think you need to tap an hold on the image then a menu should popup with a save option in it… if this doesn’t happen let me know and I will try and find another way.
Stuck Emails in Outbox
Please could you let me know which email App you are using, are you using the built in “Email” app from Apple or are you using the Gmail App which you can get from the App Store?
I would suggest you try the Gmail App from the App Store as you have a Gmail address, this should solve the problem, it’s a bit of a pain to do the initial switch but things should all just work a little better once you have it. All your emails should show up in both places once you have it installed so if you don’t like it you can switch back to the Email App…
If you already have the Gmail App let me know as this could be another problem.
There doesn’t seem to be a fix for emails getting stuck in the outbox, maybe Apple will fix this in a future update.
Thanks
Mike 🙂
April 18, 2017 at 2:40 pm
Also good map listening music is Aqua – Around The World! Also on The Playlist https://www.pcinnercircle.co.uk/index.php/music-to-use-technology-to/
April 18, 2017 at 2:34 pm
This is where we work…
https://earth.google.com/web/@54.22336228,-3.24457189,3.76573392a,8507.66233139d,35y,2.41731019h,69.83897866t,0r/data=CksaSRJDCiUweDQ4N2NhZTJkMTQ1MjFkYzE6MHhhYjcwNzgwYjM0YWEwMTQwGZ7n9GFiGktAIRmS7kLOBgrAKghMQTE4IDRKUxgCIAE