Google Earth Games
Google Earth is already widely popular among earthlings. Being the market leader in satellite imagery Google Earth covers the entire earth except a few islands. Moreover Google Earth also covers data within the sea, much to the benefit of marine scientists and anyone interested in underwater life and resources. Google Earth is high- tech satellite based imagery software. Developed by Keyhole Inc. it was sold to Google in 2004. In 2005, Google christened it as ‘Google Earth’ from ‘Earth Viewer’ that it was previously called.
Google Earth I extensively popular all over the world. It covers most of the earth’s geographical mass and much of its water area. A wide range of people from students to teachers and from geographers to marine scientists uses Google Earth. Moreover Google Earth’s commercial version Google Earth pro (Google Earth plus is no longer available) is a huge success with companies. Real Estate Companies along with tourism companies and hospitality companies also use the geo spatial technology available through Google Earth successful into their business. Moreover city planners use Google Earth’s technology to plan their respective cities.
Google Earth is not only the emperor of geo spatial technology but also is a king of a completely different sector, which would indisputably make the adolescents happy. Google Earth has sham a number of games using their high tech features and 3D imagery.
Hot Games By Google Earth or Playable on Google Earth
Where in the world- every month Google titillates the brains of inquisitive people and enthusiasts. Google Earth puts out a free newsletter that contains a puzzle game. A screenshot of the earth is taken and Google asks you to get the place where the photograph is taken. It’s a cool game that allows your mind to think and grow. It allows you to think globally and lets your mind wander places.
National Geographic Geography quiz- is a great game-cum awareness program presented by National Geography and that can be played on Google Earth. Since 1987, National Geography has pledged a fixed amount of money to teach kids about Geography and about our planet in general. Google Earth has done several rounds of quizzes including the coverage of all continents. All the continents, Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia, both the America’s and Antarctica have been covered and the kids are given ‘fun information’ about the countries in them, from cultural and geographical point of view.
Fun and Games- A whole forum ha been dedicated to the ‘fun and games’ forum by Google Earth. Though the games have some similarity with the newsletter they are more sophisticated. The games are played within the forum. Like the newsletter, people post a screenshot of a place and ask other s to guess. Moreover the other way is that one players names the location and ask the others to guess the exact spot where it is located at by giving some interesting trivia about it. It is very interesting and makes you think of our beautiful planet as a whole bloc rather than in fragments.
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