Google earth and Geographical Awareness Program 2006
Google Earth software has various applications in several fields. It is extensively used in the sector of Insurance, media, commercial estate, Non Governmental Organizations and real estate. Google earth helps us to amplify our overall general knowledge. It can be helpful to college students and kids too. Google Earth keeps on adding features for widening its scope and functionality. ‘My Wonderful World’ and Google earth have come together for enhancing the literacy about our planets geography.
Both of them are focusing to utilize Google earth for enhancing awareness about geography of various countries on our planet earth. From 1987, the third week of November is celebrated each year for a geographical awareness program. In the countries like US and Canada, prime importance is given to geographical awareness. Every year the different areas of our mother planet are covered. In the year 2006 this program focused on the regions of Africa. In this article we will have a look at topics covered in this year.
In this awareness program they arranged an Interactive quiz on geographical issues of Africa. The continent of Africa is full of not only wild animals but also beautiful landscapes as well as prosperous culture. Therefore, My Wonderful World and Google earth arranged an interactive quiz on African geographical issues. The quiz was interesting and quite informative. It helped a lot to widen the scope of our general knowledge.
Many of us can have a question in their mind,” Why Google earth and not others were chosen for this awareness program? The answer is simple. This is because the awesome features of this fabulous Google earth program. The rich satellite imagery of fabulous Google earth makes it useful for this purpose. The wonderful satellite imagery can be used to make user fly to the desired destination on our planet earth and discover the whole and sole about that place. If any user is interested in accessing this content for some purpose, she/he has to explore the layer panel located on the Google earth window. After this, just click on the ‘Featured Content’ for the purpose.
The most interesting thing is that the content of this feature are updated regularly on a daily basis. The relevant data is gathered from numerous sources such as United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), Discovery Networks and several National Geographical Magazines. All these layers incorporate several overlays like images as well as live shooting for jungles of Africa, movies featured articles etc. For displaying more details about geography of Africa New content layers are launched.
Spotlight on Africa is on of the above mentioned layers. For this particular layer, each African country is represented with its flag. When one selects and clicks on particular flag, the entire information relevant to that country is shown. With this you can explore the information about history, geography, culture, society and government of that particular country.
Another amazing layer is Tracks 4 Africa. This fabulous layer shows photos, tracks, trails, snippets, roads and points of interest for all African countries. This information can be utilized to map that particular country for your purpose. The relevant data for this purpose is collected by means of several Global Positioning System devices.
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