Street View, google's high-res panoramic view, can be enabled in Google Earth v6 by dragging the orange "pegman" icon (found near the navigation controls) onto the map.
Google Earth has a 3D buildings layer (including 3-D trees as of Google Earth v6.0) that you can turn on in the Layers panel. If for example you visit Mt. Everest and terrain apears flat then open...
Street View provides users 360° horizontal and 290° vertical panoramic street level views within Google Maps and Google Earth. Google collects these photographs using special cameras and equipment...
When you add a new placemark to your saved places these are saved in a file 'myplaces.kml' on your computer. You can right-mouse click a given placemark and select 'Snapshot View' to save the current...
To clearly see the ocean floor in Google Earth first turn off the Water Surface layer from the View menu, which shows animating wave for effect. Next expand the Ocean layer in the Layer panel in the...