Google Earth For Dummies 1st Edition by David A. Crowder (PDF)

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Explore the world from your computer! This interesting guide covers all aspects of Google Earth, the freely downloadable application from Google that allows users to view satellite images from all points of the globeAimed at a diverse audience, including casual users who enjoy air shots of locales as well as geographers, real estate professionals, and GPS developersIncludes valuable tips on various customizations that users can add, advice on setting up scavenger hunts, and guidance on using Google Earth to benefit a businessExplains modifying general options, managing the layer and placemark systems, and tackling some of the more technical aspects, such as interfacing with GPSThere are more than 400,000 registered users of Google Earth and the number is still growing

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: From the Inside Flap Explore foreign cities or find every ATM in your hometown!Map historic sites, look for a new home, or analyze traffic patternsWant to see the world? Forget packing, customs, and airport security —with Google Earth, simply click and you’re there. And it works just as well to find school districts and shortcuts in your hometown. This guide helps you install and customize the software, create specialized maps, tour almost any city on earth, and more!Discover how toLocate specific businesses in any cityCreate a tour of homes for saleVisit historic sites in another countryInsert your own 3D modelsFind alternate routes to work From the Back Cover Explore foreign cities or find every ATM in your hometown!Map historic sites, look for a new home, or analyze traffic patternsWant to see the world? Forget packing, customs, and airport security —with Google Earth, simply click and you’re there. And it works just as well to find school districts and shortcuts in your hometown. This guide helps you install and customize the software, create specialized maps, tour almost any city on earth, and more!Discover how toLocate specific businesses in any cityCreate a tour of homes for saleVisit historic sites in another countryInsert your own 3D modelsFind alternate routes to work About the Author David A. Crowder has authored or coauthored more than 25 books, including the bestsellers Building a Web Site For Dummies and Cliffs Notes Getting on the Internet. His two most recent books were both listed as essential for all library collections by the magazine Library Journal. Professor Crowder is equally at home with high technology or with working his way through the backcountry on horseback or in a dugout canoe. When he is not writing, he spends his time with his wife Angela, wandering through villages in the Andes or frolicking in the Caribbean surf. Read more

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐The book was great for a general overview but I was looking for more information on how to crest KMZ files and better use of the tools.

⭐The book is very helpful for a dummy to gain confidence in delving into the wide scope of Google Earth. Even just the plethora of additional resources quoted makes the book a bargain. It provides a springboard from which to dive deeper into KML and the features of Google Earth.

⭐If you weren’t born in the current century, you can still learn to use Google Earth. “Google Earth for Dummies” has the step by step basics, and some advanced techniques, for using it. This particular edition dates from 2007, which means its information is slightly dated, but it should still be a useful guide for beginners. Recommended to that audience.

⭐This book has some good info, but being as it was published in 2007 I would say Google Earth has been updated a lot and it would be great if there were a newer version written. Still a good book to have if you want some info on Google Earth that Youtube may not offer.

⭐I’ve been struggling trying to figure out how to create custom routes in Google Earth (or Google Maps) that I can then share with friends, family, other members of my motorcycle club, etc. I finally broke down and bought this book because it promised to explain all of that.After reading through the first 116 pages (it was actually well written and I learned a lot about how to use features of Google Earth I was not getting the most out of), I got to this exciting bit of news at the end of Chapter 7; “If you want to share your tours with other Google Earth users, check out Chapter 8 to see how it’s done.”YESSSS!! Finally; the holy grail! I read Chapter 8 (‘Mingling With the Community’) with great interest, got to the end without a shred of advice on how to “share your tours with other Google Earth users”, re-read it and read it again. Nothing. Nada. Zilch.The rest of the book delved deeply into arcane technical subjects and some interesting stuff that I might find useful in personalizing Google Earth, but for my purposes, if I can’t share what I’ve done with others, it’s of no use. And nothing in this book explains how to share (unless the author expects me to wade through the archives of Google Earth Community forums to try to figure it out).So, I’m very disappointed in this book because it did not answer the one question I need to have answered; is there a way to share my custom views of the world with others (other than in a forum)?It would also help to have a discussion about the difference between Google Maps and Google Earth and how they are related and when to use each.

⭐Published in 2007. A little outdated perhaps. At least one referenced website is obsolete.

⭐I found this worth buying, as it has good explanations and useful links. It helped me in making maps for several projects, used along with The KML Handbook. With even the free version of Google Earth, and/or map-making tools at maps.google.com, one can assemble, test and make available useful, interactive maps.

⭐I have worked with Google Earth for quite some time, but had a few questions that I wanted a reference for. The Dummies books are not the most in-depth tech manuals but they can usually answer some of the simpler questions and direct you where to go to get more specific information. Good book to start with.

⭐Useful

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