{"id":33,"date":"2006-05-09T14:23:41","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T19:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2006-05-09T14:23:41","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T19:23:41","slug":"google-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2006\/05\/09\/google-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Google Earth\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/googleearth.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/earth.google.com\/\">http:\/\/earth.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you teach geography, this is an application you need to get.\u00a0 Google Earth is a free program that can be downloaded from the URL above.\u00a0 It is available for the PC or Mac.\u00a0 Once you install the program, you are plugged into Google\u2019s database of satellite images and geographic data.\u00a0 You can look at places like Ohio Stadium in Columbus.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Shoe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/theshoe.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some locations have high resolution images.\u00a0 In the picture below, you can not only see that the field says \u201cSeahawks\u201d, but also that the home team is on defense and in a four-man front.\u00a0 The resolution varies from place to place.\u00a0 In Findlay, the resolution is so poor, my neighborhood (30 homes) is not clearly visible.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Seahawks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/seahawks.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a picture of Mount St Helens.\u00a0 From the shadow, you can tell that half of the mountain was blown away during a volcanic eruption.\u00a0 But Google Earth also has altitude information.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mt St Helen 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/mtsth1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By changing the angle of view (a feature built into Google Earth), you can see how tall the mountain is and just how much of the side is gone.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mt St Helen 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/mtsth2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/earth.google.com If you teach geography, this is an application you need to get.\u00a0 Google Earth is a free program that can be downloaded from the URL above.\u00a0 It is available for the PC or Mac.\u00a0 Once you install the program, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2006\/05\/09\/google-earth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-edtech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}