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A little Google Earth 5.0 anyone?
Has anyone uploaded the new Google Earth 5.0 released on Monday? I'm pretty hyped. I loaded it with my daughter last night before she went to bed, but then she got really sick with a 102 degree temp. Plus I had a tortuous late-night meeting with a Harvard oncologist (oh, the woes of a freelance medical writer) and so I haven't had a chance to peep the amazing new Earth yet. But Google says it's stacked with new features.
Previously you couldn't get any GPS on the free Earth upload. But now you can upload tracks from satellites including Magellan. This is a godsend for me. I can now strategically personalize my geologic and geographic searches and actually visualize my hiking routes (my daughter and I are hiking nuts). I can also route my favorite bodies of water on the east coast (the Patapsco River, the amazing Susquehanna, and the glorious Chesapeake Bay--the biggest estuary in these United States).
Earth 5.0 also steps up its oceanographic capabilities: put on your scuba gear because you can now dive underwater with the new upload!! You can even use its historic mapping to track old shipwrecks. I'm going try and find the location of Henrietta Marie--the old British slaveship that sank off the Florida coast in 1700. (Several years ago, members of the National Association of Black Scuba Divers (NABSD) went 25 feet down into the Gulf of Mexico and explored the scattered wreckage and artifacts of Henrietta Marie.)
Earth 5.0 is also linked with NASA. It has Mars imagery so that you can now tour the red terrestrial planet--the fourth planet from the sun, named for the Roman God of war--and check out its arid and mysterious terrain. Sort of like your own personalized Mars Rover. (My 5-year-old daughter is in love with the earth and the night sky. She's gonna get a real kick out of this! Plus she just started Pre-K. I'm already having visions of "show-and-tell" with Earth 5.0! Her teacher will be bringing HER an apple!)
Also, for you fellow traveling enthusiasts out there, check out Earth 5.0's new cinematic feature. You can click onto a "camera" and basically track your personal travels across the Grand Canyon or the Philippine Islands or the Seregenti or the sacred Ganges River in India, and then, now get this, you can use the microphone feature to narrate your journey. Again, I'm thinking show-and-tell here! Can she get two apples!? Others may be content with simply loading an aerial documentary of their travels on Youtube.
In any case, I'll be toying with Earth 5.0 over the next few weeks. And I'll stop back later to let you know what I really think.
Has anyone else loaded it yet?
Previously you couldn't get any GPS on the free Earth upload. But now you can upload tracks from satellites including Magellan. This is a godsend for me. I can now strategically personalize my geologic and geographic searches and actually visualize my hiking routes (my daughter and I are hiking nuts). I can also route my favorite bodies of water on the east coast (the Patapsco River, the amazing Susquehanna, and the glorious Chesapeake Bay--the biggest estuary in these United States).
Earth 5.0 also steps up its oceanographic capabilities: put on your scuba gear because you can now dive underwater with the new upload!! You can even use its historic mapping to track old shipwrecks. I'm going try and find the location of Henrietta Marie--the old British slaveship that sank off the Florida coast in 1700. (Several years ago, members of the National Association of Black Scuba Divers (NABSD) went 25 feet down into the Gulf of Mexico and explored the scattered wreckage and artifacts of Henrietta Marie.)
Earth 5.0 is also linked with NASA. It has Mars imagery so that you can now tour the red terrestrial planet--the fourth planet from the sun, named for the Roman God of war--and check out its arid and mysterious terrain. Sort of like your own personalized Mars Rover. (My 5-year-old daughter is in love with the earth and the night sky. She's gonna get a real kick out of this! Plus she just started Pre-K. I'm already having visions of "show-and-tell" with Earth 5.0! Her teacher will be bringing HER an apple!)
Also, for you fellow traveling enthusiasts out there, check out Earth 5.0's new cinematic feature. You can click onto a "camera" and basically track your personal travels across the Grand Canyon or the Philippine Islands or the Seregenti or the sacred Ganges River in India, and then, now get this, you can use the microphone feature to narrate your journey. Again, I'm thinking show-and-tell here! Can she get two apples!? Others may be content with simply loading an aerial documentary of their travels on Youtube.
In any case, I'll be toying with Earth 5.0 over the next few weeks. And I'll stop back later to let you know what I really think.
Has anyone else loaded it yet?
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Permalink Reply by White Lion on -
Here's what PC Magazine has to say about Google Earth 5.0
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2340760,00.asp?kc=PCRSS02129TX...
Here's the link to download Google Earth 5.0, warning it takes up a tremendous amount of space on your hard drive.
http://www.download.com/google-earth/
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Permalink Reply by Shaman on -
White Lion, I use an 8-year old dinosaur with only 80GB and still have about 60% free space on my HD. But I do avoid trying to multitask on the Internet while running science software or other monstrous programs. It's suicidal to run a science package like Earth 5.0 while dabbling on email, cropping pics on Picassa, and executing Adobe Acrobat. Also, I tend to run a bunch of medical science software with massive graphiccs and national databases (CDC, HHS, NCHS, NCI, UNOS, etc). Just running UNOS alone (the national organ donor database) can crawl along at glacial speed. And so I basically shut down everything before I pour a cup of peppermint tea and "play" with Earth 5.0.
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Permalink Reply by White Lion on
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Must suck viewing videos. Do you get that sputtering effect?
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Permalink Reply by Shaman on
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Yeah, I still get the sputtering effect that I got with last version. Definitely not a flawless package. But keep in mind: all technology is "in progress."
BTW, speaking of video and science software, here are some amazing samples below of cutting-edge interactive 3D imagery of the human heart and other body organs and systems. Not cheap stuff. The full anatomy series here will set you back $1,100. But it's truly impressive imagery with remarkably fine detail of both form and function. It reminds me that there's a Higher Intelligence that man-made technology doesn;t fully capture:
http://www.heartworks.me.uk/index.php
http://www.primalpictures.com/Complete_Human_Anatomy_Series.aspx
Also, check out the free medical science downloads at the site below. An especially practical one is called Nut 14.3 (just click and scroll down a bit). Nut 14.3 is nutrient management software that lets you analyze and manage your nutritional intake with keen precision (fats, calories, protein, carbs, fiber, vitamins, etc.). Its database hold over 7,000 foods but you can also personalize it so that you include your own unique dishes and recipes: http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Science-and-Engineering/Medical-Scie...
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