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Google Earth For Dummies

By David A. Crowder
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Google Earth For Dummies by David A. Crowder is a comprehensive guide that helps users navigate and master Google Earth's powerful features. It covers everything from basic navigation to creating detailed maps and custom tours. The book provides step-by-step instructions, making it accessible for beginners while offering advanced tips for more experienced users.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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You might enjoy this book if you're eager to explore the world from your computer, with step-by-step guidance to navigate and utilise Google Earth's vast capabilities. It's perfect for tech enthusiasts interested in geographical exploration or for those who want to enhance their virtual travel experiences through tips and insights offered by the authors.

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Exploring foreign cities or finding ATMs in your hometown, this work also lets you map historic sites, look for a new home, or analyze traffic patterns around the world.

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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 globe.

Aimed at a diverse audience, including casual users who enjoy air shots of locales as well as geographers, real estate professionals, and GPS developers.

Includes valuable tips on various customisations that users can add, advice on setting up scavenger hunts, and guidance on using Google Earth to benefit a business.

Explains modifying general options, managing the layer and placemark systems, and tackling some of the more technical aspects, such as interfacing with GPS.

There are more than 400,000 registered users of Google Earth and the number is still growing.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780470095287

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 February 2007

Country: United States

Imprint: For Dummies

Illustration: Screen captures: 200 B&W, 0 Color

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 188.0mm

Height: 236.0mm

Weight: 508g

Pages: 368

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Computing & Technology David A. Crowder Dummies Education & Reference Non-Fiction Travel & Adventure

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.

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