Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Google Earth celebrates its 10th anniversary with two new functions – The Nacional.com

The popular service that allows you to see the world from a computer or mobile device, is serving 10 years of existence. So the Internet giant wants to celebrate with their fans with two new functions: ‘Traveller’ and Earth View

According to the official blog of Google, ‘Traveller’ is a service that indicates so. Automatic popular places to visit, which are represented by different colors.

It also offers the opportunity to learn different destinations through photographs and historical accounts, to optimize the search experience. Even, you can access images of cities and towns in 3D resolution.

In addition, Google enabled the “Earth View” function, a gallery that collects the best images taken by satellites. You can find representations of landscapes in high quality, they are taken without clouds and without major differences in color or contrast between its components.

These can be downloaded for free and used as wallpapers on cell and tablets.

“For the 10th anniversary of Google Earth, we expanded the collection of Earth View 1500 landscapes from all continents and oceans, making these images even more accessible,” said Sean Askay director Engineering Google Earth.

To access the function ‘Traveler’ must be done from the version of Google Earth for computers. At the moment it is not available for mobile devices.

Also, to access the large gallery of images of Earth View you need to download an extension in Google Chrome or entering your https://earthview.withgoogle.com /

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