Just for fun the opposite day, I pretended to be Jesus in His Ascension and Second Coming. I Google Earthed my flights each from and to the Church of the Ascension, simply East of the Temple Mount on the Mount of Olives. Fascinating experience.

It isn’t precisely groundbreaking technology — in truth, it only a marries two existing applied sciences from Chrome and Google Earth. But the sheer number of terrains on show, from the schematic avenue-view of downtown Chicago to a frozen mountain vary in Antarctica, makes opening a brand new tab an oddly hypnotic experience and opening dozens of tabs practically irresistible.

Layers hold the key to many of the content material you see in Google Earth and, since there are such a lot of, its not all the time easy to remember which layers to toggle on or off to get the knowledge that you want. In search of the identify of a road? Make sure you’ve turned on the Roads layer. Cannot dive under the ocean? Likelihood is, it’s because your Terrain layer is turned off. Typically, the layer you want is not fairly intuitive: If you happen to’re having trouble viewing the Titanic, it is … Read the rest