Google Earth Resources & Plugins - Explore and Enhance

Explore the World from Home with Google Earth

For those seeking to virtually travel the globe, Google Earth provides an unparalleled starting point.

Users can virtually fly across the planet and zoom in on specific locations. It’s possible to view one’s own neighborhood from a bird’s-eye perspective, descend into the Grand Canyon, trace the path of the Great Wall of China, or observe rainforests, potentially spotting exotic wildlife. The experience is truly unique.

Enhance Your Google Earth Experience: Valuable Resources

To further enrich your Google Earth explorations, several websites offer supplementary information, news, adventures, and captivating sights.

• Google Earth Blog - This site delivers the most recent updates, intriguing locations, useful tutorials, technological insights, and general happenings related to Google Earth.
• Google Earth Cool Places [No Longer Available] - A vast collection of extraordinary locations is featured here. Browse screenshots, utilize the random image feature, rate sights, contribute comments, and explore categories to find places to investigate further within Google Earth. Allow ample time for this exploration.
• Google Sightseeing - Discover unusual and remarkable places identified on Google Earth. View recent discoveries or browse by location or category. Each image includes commentary and a corresponding placemark for easy access.
• Google Earth Community - A forum boasting thousands of screenshots, images, and placemarks, alongside articles covering diverse topics.
• GE.findr - This functions as a dedicated search engine specifically for Google Earth.
• Earth Contest [Broken URL Removed] - This was the world’s largest interactive, free-to-play game, challenging players to utilize Google Earth placemarks, decipher clues, and employ the Checkpoint feature to outwit a GameMaster. It offered a thrilling, live adventure accessible from one’s desk.

Expanding Functionality: Google Earth Plugins

Several plugins can significantly expand the capabilities of Google Earth.

Panoramio - Share your photographs with a global audience directly within Google Earth using Panoramio. The plugin allows viewing photos submitted by others for locations worldwide. Account registration is required to upload and share your own images, with up to 2 GB of free storage provided.

The World Wide Panorama [No Longer Available] - Similar to Panoramio, this plugin featured 360° panoramas instead of standard images.

Night Lights of the World - NASA has contributed several layers to Google Earth, including one displaying the Earth at night.

Realtime Weather Observation Overlays - Weather Bonk provides weather overlays displaying data in either Fahrenheit or Celsius, with or without wind barbs.

Geepeeyes - A GPS plugin supporting the NMEA protocol. Geepeeyes plots location, trail, speed, and heading, and provides spoken driving directions on a dynamic map view, even when Google Earth is offline and utilizing cached data.

CBS News Seismic Monitor - Allows users to scroll through or replay worldwide seismic activity data from the past seven days.

Google Moons - This plugin incorporates 34 realistically scaled 3D models of the largest natural satellites within our Solar System, positioned around the Earth inside Google Earth. It provides a valuable tool for size comparisons.