Google Earth Pro Fundamentals and Advanced Features Course

hello welcome to the introduction for my course on Google Earth Pro in this course we're gonna cover a couple of very simple projects including planning a road trip zoning a city and then sending our plans for that zone city and that road trip to someone else so there's a lot of features in Google Earth that are very useful like these two you know basic concepts that I you know just covered and a ton more you may look at it and just see oh this looks like a giant globe what can I really do with it there's a lot of things that we can do we're going to learn about km ELLs and km Z's which are Google's specific file formats that they have for mapping points and areas inside of Google Earth and you can send and share those with people and they're widely used we're going to teach you about the satellite imagery that is actually in the software and that has been archived and how to get more current versions of that how to see borders how to see even Google's archived version of the Moon the Stars the solar system and also Mars so there's going to be some exciting content here that you may have not known about and I am excited for you all to be here with me so stay tuned I will post links and you know files to the table of contents and everything you need for this course so stay tuned happy to have you here okay so in this first video of this course I'm going to give you an introduction to how the software works and just some basic features just a kind of an overview so that you all understand sort of where to go for certain things that we're gonna look at when we're doing this course okay so just to start out when you download Google Earth Pro from their site it's just you're gonna open it up and it's gonna look exactly like this so I'm just going over some basic controls if you take the mouse wheel and you scroll in then that will zoom you down like you're falling toward Earth and then if you move it in Reverse you're gonna come back out all the way out as far as as far as you can go if you hold down the right mouse button then you can manipulate there if you can turn it and you can kind of actually grab it and let go and sort of throw it and spin it around like this in this way that will make you pretty dizzy so another thing you can do is if you hold down the mouse wheel like a clicker right here you can if you move right or left it will give you this sort of tilting view where you're moving the earth like this okay so that's something to look at too and if you hold down the right are the the right mouse button sorry people down the right mouse button and then you move in or out it will zoom us in and out but it will also give us this tilt so once again just left mouse button it's kind of sort of click and grab that's sort of our go to control where we want to move around and look at things and then the wheel will let us tilton and the left will zoom and tilt or the right will zoom in tilt so over here we've got in the top left hand corner just some basic functions that you're gonna have and pretty much every other piece of software right here so you're sure your save function your edit function your views like currently being shown you just go over here add adding folders to keep points in and we'll go over how to make a point here in a minute and just your general help and documentation that's in here in the top bar here we have our tools so if we want to make a point that's there if you wanted to make a polygon or something that just sort of highlights a general area line if you wanted to add images over something if you want to measure something and then if you want to send something that you are working on here to somebody you can do that through this top bar over here just to let the search bar is where you can search for generally any name of anything inside of Google Earth so if I wanted to search for Paris right it would give me all these different options and that I clicked on it I can just go and zoom right over to that and you can actually this moves really fast and I can give you that's too fast for you I'll show you a way to take this and make it move not as fast so it doesn't give you like vertigo of while you're working on the software as some people you know I like to slow things down a little bit alright so I'm going to clear that out so down here it places right so this is where you can keep different places that you want to note right so this this could be any place mark any polygon any thing that you've made which those are the two main items that will be creating those and also like lines so if you want to show like a routes for road and we would keep all that and then all the folders inside of here so if we wanted to put a folder in here to keep a certain type of project for points we'd put it in here and now we're here we down here lower we have our layers area and so this is all sorts of layers there is a ton of stuff to cover over here but these are built in to Google Earth and they can show you borders places different things like we're you know seeing here many many features inside of that over here on the right we have the North Area which is shows are how we are oriented at the time and then this right here is Street View and you can you can drop him down anywhere and you can go industry view if it's available it's not always available in certain places but here is a street view of this location and here it is Wow pretty cool we'll go over that a little bit more we also have this right here this bar right here you can use if you hold down the left mouse button you can move around and that will that's pretty cool it also gives you a grabby grabby tool right here gives you this glove what you kind of already have so you don't really you don't really need it this just indicates that you can move with this and then this bar right here it allows you to zoom in or out and it just gives you kind of a a measured way to do set and if you don't want to use your mouse so that's a general view in the next video so stay tuned we'll get right into that all right so we're gonna get started with our first project where we are going to plan a road trip now we're going to do a very small road trip we're not going to take a whole lot of time but I'm going to hit on the fundamentals of how to do this really quick and just follow along and you can definitely scale this out once you've learned how to do these basic fundamentals here so what we're gonna do is just use the mouse wheel to zoom in and we're gonna go over here just in Washington but we wanna figure out where we're at so I'm gonna turn on inside the layers section you know want to turn on the borders and labels so we can see where we're at we're going to turn on the roads and we can also turn on the places cuz why not and I see over here when I tilt this down I can see 3d you got this nice Mountain over here so let's say I want to take a road trip over here from Tacoma to this nice Mountain so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to take a placemark and I'm gonna make that my Start button and you could go zoom in and find your actual house or you could search for it and you know pick that actual spot but however you want to do it and I'm just gonna put Start just for for fun all right we don't really need to mess with any of this other stuff in here these are some advanced settings and we don't need to worry about them too much but what I can do is give this a fun little starting thing little icon right here so I'm gonna give it this little guy right here okay so that's gonna be my start all right and then oh sorry I made a throw around a little bit I'm gonna go ahead and then draw a path so I'm gonna go ahead and you can kind of move this box out of the way cuz sometimes it does get in the way we can start making a path along this highway and we don't have to be super exact with this alright and we can zoom in to find the routes that we we actually want to take so if you're planning a real road trip you're gonna want to have a rough idea of you know like how many miles you're gonna be going right you don't want to be completely off but you don't need to get every single Bend in my opinion right depends on how particularly you want to be so you're you're clicking every time to drop these points right if you like change one of these points remove it you can kind of just adjust it like this just left-click it and move it right and we're gonna call this path route right and we made this a 5 a 5 wide width but we could also make it like a 20-wide right we change the color to blue right so that's pretty cool and then we're gonna just do a placemark at this mountain right here that says destination and we're gonna put a whole green star for the icon they're just thick just for the sake of looking kind of cool so now that we have these three items alright like our start destination we're gonna do is we're gonna add a folder right and this is going to be called road trip so this this road trip folder right here what we're gonna do is we're going to put all of these other items in here right so this is a align and two points that we've named and now we have them in a folder it's important to have them in that folder because that's the way that you actually save the KML and the KML is the file type and you can export so you can put it into they're Google products and lots of other software right so we're gonna right-click on the folder and we're gonna hit safe place as which is how we get to do this so road trip die KMZ kml right we'll go over the difference of those later but just really either-or right so BAM so now you have your KML file of your road trip so now that you have that you have successfully planned out a road trip and there's that so in the next lessons we're going to cover some other finer details and some other projects including zoning a city so thanks for watching see you in the next one alright in this video we're gonna do a simple project inside Google Earth Pro where we're actually gonna sone a city we're going to pick we're gonna make like a new proposed zoning areas for a locality right so if in theory you had to do this you know because you work for a city or state government and you're you know whatever you could you could do this so I'm just gonna pick a random City I'm gonna pick Nashville Nashville Tennessee and searching go right over there and we are going to rezone some of Nashville and I'm gonna make it kind of crazy so we're actually gonna say you know we don't you know the airport we were thinking of tearing it down and we were gonna put some new we're gonna make it residential we want to put houses there instead people really like this whole airstrip vibe it's really in the real estates really high let's say that that is the case in so we're gonna basically bulldoze the airport and make it a residential zone so it's no longer gonna be a you know commercial airport area we're gonna build houses on top of the airstrip so we're gonna go ahead and this time you know I'll start will make a folder I'll be like new zoning proposal we're gonna try to make this like a like something we could present to somebody and explain they would understand so this would be kind of cool so we're going to tilt this over and we're going to take a polygon and we're gonna put that over this airfield so we're gonna say proposed residential zone for 2020 which is right now when I'm making it I'm going to do is I'm going to start dropping dot so I'm gonna select starting right here I'm gonna select around this airfield alright I was gonna paint this zone kind of broadly just using these points skim around and as you can see what I think I have by default is just white area alright and this looks really ugly right now so we're gonna get into the style and the color so the lines are a certain color in an area is a certain color with a certain transparency so for residential I'm gonna take that and make that like a nice like baby blue and then I'm gonna make the lines like a similar color and then the opacity I'm going to take it I'm gonna crank it down to be like 20% is a little bit light so we'll do like 40% and you can kind of see what's going on there so I'm gonna do that what's cool to note about this too you can actually see the measurement in here so you could say hey here's our proposed zoning change and the perimeter is 10 you know 10 miles in perimeter and it's almost you know it's four point five nine square miles right so there we go we have that area right there and so now obviously we have to pick a new place to put the airport so we're gonna take another section right here and we're gonna hold on to all these houses and we're gonna put the airfield over here actually let's put over here with this this is like a golf course or something so we'll put the air Airport over here so we'll do another polygon and start selecting that I'm gonna say we're gonna turn this and do commercial so when you and you finally oh that's a path I'm so sorry so when you want to do a polygon different different than a path good to point out so when you've selected one color already you're gonna tend to have to change that so we're gonna change this over to like red okay and we're gonna keep the same opacity but since Reds may be a little bit more of a intense color width we're going to take that and we're gonna say rename okay so that's our proposed Airport Zone and our proposed residential zone right there so you could do this you could stone out every area in every capacity that you want now here but now that you have that we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna save this save as BAM so the default comes up as KMZ understand that KMZ has a smaller file size but kml is more compatible with other softwares most of the times you're gonna want to save as kml the majority of the time unless you're going strictly google earth to google earth right so now that we saved that kml of this new zoning proposal we can go ahead and send that to the mayor and then he can present that to the City Council and there we go so that is how did you that type of project we just made two polygons and pretty simple I hope this was helpful and see in the next video so this lesson on Google Earth Pro is going to be all about KML and kanzi's and we're really quick we're just gonna go over the basics so a KML or KMZ can be made of any collection of points polygons paths image overlays whatever you have anything that you can create with inside Google Earth you can then export as a KML or KMZ so KML should be your primary item that you want to export because it's more compatible with other versions what if you have like a really really big set of data then you could use a cam sheet it would be better on file size essentially that's the difference between the two of them but let's say that someone has sent you a KML right and you want to open it the simple way to do it is to literally just double click on that and it should open up and here we have a stoning proposal that we made in another episode this course so that opens right up to where it is if you click on that and then just hit delete on your keyboard boom gone right same with our road trip right our road trip was over in Washington and you can see how the maps flies right over to that so there we go so to go over making one of these and saving one of these really quick just to give you some more context of that if I go ahead I'm gonna drop a point and I'm going to make a polygon and then I'm going to do a path it's gonna make this path like that those are three items right there and then I'm going to make it folder right here I'm just gonna add a folder right and I'm gonna put all these items into that because that is the only way to save or save your KML or KMZ you're gonna want to right click on this untitled folder and hit save place as and then you can be then you can save it as that's one BAM there you go so now we look at our folder there it is right and if we do it you do all this out of there and open this up there it is there is the KML that we just made and if you drop this down you'll see all all the stuff so we can manipulate and change these items resave it and then send back the same kml or the same project piece that you're working on with somebody else back to them as a kml and you can modify it right here you would just right-click in this and be like i want this to be a place that i want to go alright and and then this right here will be a 5k route that'd be a crazy 5k route yeah it's definitely way more than k anyhow right that would be how you do that so that's all that's everything you really need to know about camels and kmt's on a basic level how to open them how to close them how to make them how to save them thanks for watching in this video we're gonna go over the measuring feature or the ruler feature inside of Google Earth Pro we're just going to do it really quick so I'm just gonna show you the different options you have when you're using this tool so to click it like I just did we're gonna click on the ruler icon up here in the top and we have several different options for how to measure and we also have different units of measurement so the first one that's going to be pretty clear-cut is going to be line so we're just gonna see from point A to point B that's the only option you have point A to point B just click and drag and drop and so we have all of these different so like a miles that's one and a half miles right so path we have this we change this mode it actually allows it to between the line and path because it stays about the same no never mind it stays stays right there anyhow if you want to do path so this is you know we're trying to see you know this could be an entire route that we're manipulating changing this path however we want all right we can see how long that path is so I can be like a running path all right we're gonna go ahead and do polygon so this will be perimeter and area and we can change those to be separate so if you want perimeter and miles and you want the Aryan acres there you go all right circle and drop a point in the middle and then just pull it out and you can see the radius area in circumference right so 3d path similar to a path right so you can measure the height and width of 3d buildings in the distance of points on buildings from points on buildings to the ground so we don't have any buildings in here and these features are not super commonly used but you can use these and then you provide perimeter and area so that's overall the basics of the measuring feature and you can also see that when you make a normal path you can see the measurement right here in this tab when you are editing the properties of that path so when you go to properties and go in here and you can see that right in there all right so that is the basics of measuring and Google Earth throw thanks for following along and see in the next video all right in this section we're gonna go over how to print a certain view or a like a basically a digital map of what you've made to somebody so we're gonna we're gonna figure out how to print that we're gonna figure out how to send a a basically a JPEG just an image to somebody via email we're also going to get into checking what we're doing against Google Maps and that's it so we'll just jump right into it then I'm gonna open up a zoning proposal that we made in a previous course and we're gonna go over to that and so basically our task is going to be that we are trying to propose we're trying to send this proposal to somebody in the City Council so they can decide whether or not they want to make this zoning change so this could be any any type of project ever that you want to share with somebody but in this case this is what it is that we're gonna try to send somebody so over here if you go up to this section of four buttons here so we have email print save image and viewing Google Maps so if we hit save image that allows us to create this legend of sorts we have a legend here and we have also a like map title that we can make and we have a North arrow and we have a legend that shows like how wide of an area we're looking at and you see as we zoom out it shows you know what is relative we can also add in places roads right we're gonna because we want to know about the zoning change we're gonna go ahead and build this out so that the City Council can decide here so we want to put in all of the things that would be that would add to our overall product if you will so I'm gonna say zoning change for Seoul Airport switch so this is a 2020 Airport switch we're switching where the airport is and we're putting that or putting the airport up here I'm putting residential stuff over here so we're gonna try to change this legend we're just gonna hit refresh from view and we're gonna see if we can get it to line up the way that we want so right now it looks like we have a bunch of stuff that we don't necessarily care about so we're gonna kind of remove everything from this legend because we don't want to have too much stuff that we don't want so we're gonna do a legend we just want the proposed residential zones to show the airport to show will leave the Convention Center and we'll leave that'll be it okay so we'll just do these areas right here and we'll leave those alright and then actually would really kind of like it if those could slide up but I don't think we can get them to slide up so don't worry about that so now we have a title here and we have a legend so this is something that we can actually basically take a snapshot of and take it over so we're gonna pick the resolution that we want so currently we have this resolution but let's just say for the sake of when whatever we want our 720 HD right we're 4k Ultra HD or 1080 all right so let's pick 1080 so this shows you what it would look like in 1080 all right so we're gonna say that's the size of the TVs that they have in the city hall meetings and this is what we want to display it on so we want it to be a full nice wide display so this is what we're going to pick right so with that we have these map options so if we want to turn off anything over here like the compass or anything like that we can do that right and then the styling we can we can style these to be a little bit different right you see how the we kind of dulled this out and actually I like this one so this kind of doled out the the map a little bit so that it's kind of more focused on those colors there instead of giving it the colorful map we don't really need to see all that grass right so in this case we're gonna save image right and then we're gonna call this zoning change BAM and we just save it as a JPEG and it'll process it over and you see we have it right in here and if we pop that open this is gonna be pretty big but you can see right here this is something that you can very clearly see and say okay so this red right here is a proposed airport zone for 2020 and this is a proposed residential zone BAM there you go really easy to do really convenient if we want to email that to somebody so let's say we want to go ahead and do that we're gonna say a renaissance screenshot of the current view all right and when you're just gonna hit email and then I'm not gonna login to it but if you log into these space gonna be like okay where do you want to send it and send it over so that's something that's like built-in integration to Gmail or Microsoft Outlook so you can just by default start sending your stuff that you need to send over right in there cool let's go and look at print so print is very much the same as what you would what we just did except for this is where you're gonna be able to save like a PDF so PDF zoning change right we're gonna be able save a PDF from this just like we did looks like we made the JPEG right but you have to go over here to print to be able to get that to work so super easy it'll take a minute and that'll turn it into a PDF for you and good to go on that if you go over to actually print alright then you can really just print just the view straight off the way it is right there and there's also some other printing options and map options in here as well I would let's say we want to get rid of the compass we just click that and the compass goes away in the bottom right hand corner right there okay cool so if you toggle one of these on or off that's how you get rid of that view and that is the basics to seeing and sending and creating those type of like you know products that you would actually send to somebody so you can show them exactly what you mean if you wanted to cross check this with any Google Maps information cuz Google Maps it does in fact have different stuff than Google Earth on some level it's basically all the same stuff but there's some different features then like the convention center maybe we'll look at that Convention Center and we'll see some some feature about this we need to maybe look at for our research that is pretty cool to have right here that we can inside this area quickly click on Google Maps and see what's going on inside that other data source that Google has linked for us there so very cool I hope this is informational and this helped you out and stay tuned for the next video in the course in this video we're going to go over the options section in Google Earth Pro and we're going just give you a brief overview of some useful things that you can use for when you're working inside of here so one of the most useful things in here if you're actually trying to get points on a map changing your decimal degrees degrees minutes seconds mg RS UTM all these different lat long variations these will change the default view that you see when you drop a point and you view its properties so let's say that we drop a point here right it'll show and lat/long currently but if we change that item then we will have that different a different option there whatever you pick so for a couple of these different items right here if you change these these will make basically make everything maybe a little bit faster for you same with terrain if you get rid of some of these like a 3d imagery or high-quality terrain then you'll get quicker resolution and faster rendering so these are just quality features in here okay units of measurement feet miles meters kilometers basically metric or standard you can change that over you can do your map size you can change that and then also your zoom relation so cash if you want to clear this this will basically free every up all of your space just kind of a different feature in case it starts running slow try this we're touring right here so this kind of gives you some options to do with your tour filming which we went over and then the previous video so this gives you just a couple different things you might want to change right here like the speed of how fast the tour is moving right let's see navigation fly to you all right so this is where your so if I changes from slow to fast or my mouse wheel from slow to fast so this has just changed a scroll speed with the mouse wheel and then the fly to is like if I search for Nashville and if it moves the whole map over there when it flies over there and it can make it slower or faster and this is preferable because sometimes stuff is too fast it makes people busy or something like that right over here in general we have just language the email program if you're for whatever you're sending and then your error handling but basically we just went over all of the useful items here are the main items really quickly so yeah thanks for watching see you in the next video showing you how to record a tour inside of Google Earth Pro this is something that you can do if you want to show off a specific area over time kind of if you want to do like a visual screencap of what you're showing like them yeah like a video pretty much as opposed to a screenshot what's been covered in another video you can go look at that one if you wanted you're still but for the tours what you're gonna want to do is just go up here to the top bar and just click on it record it to her right and then that will pop up this bottom at the this this button panel at the bottom here which gives you an option to record just this screen right here the visual area that we can see it will not record the sidebar right so we're just gonna record one right now I'm going to record on them and then if I hit this mic button then it's going to enable that as well and so let's see I'm going to zoom in on Indiana I'm just gonna sue min on the annapolis now any of the different layers I want to change them they will be inside of the tour okay so right turn off like what places or a 3d building or just whatever I've got labels on everything yeah I take those off you see they go away ready okay so when I'm done with that should stop recording and then when I hit play on it you can see I'm not doing anything right now the tour is just playing so this is what you get right the whole thing it recorded every movement that I had made and if I save it then I can name it whatever and it will save in my places and it just we're functions from there and that is how you make a tour and inside Google Earth pearl thanks for watching I hope this helps you have a good work in this video I'm going to show you how to activate a outline around all of your bodies of water so that could be rivers streams like whatever if you want to just know where those are a little bit better I get you is in Google Earth Pro just go over to the left hand side to your layers tab and then you're going to go down to where it says more right and under more you just gonna expand that and then you're gonna want to click on water body outlines okay so we're gonna give that a second to populate here we're going to look down and how that's working out for us okay so you can see this coming through here all the data is being outline for all of our bodies and water so this does help us get a clearer picture of where that actually ends so if you're a developer or something like that and you need to know specifically where the boundary stops some you know in some situations coastlines and things and the way that land has developed nearby bodies of water can get a little bit tricky and sometimes things can move so it's good to overlay the imagery with the actual boundary lines of record that exists for these bytes of water and then there are some that you just maybe don't quite notice because they're running through some sort of forest or something like that where it's a little bit harder to catch right but then you know that is how you activate the water body outlines layer inside Google Earth Pro thanks for watching support my channel in the description and I'll see you in the next video what's up everyone in this video I'm going to show you how to populate the location and some details of hiking trails that are in every trail every trail has a database of hiking locations and we're look at this today so if you go over to your layers tab inside Google Earth Pro it's on the left-hand side here and you go down to where it says gallery right and you click open gallery you'll see a box for every trail and you just click that and as you can see my map here right now starting to populate with some of these locations for hiking and I'm going to go over here and just look at some of these trails and just sort of click on them see what comes up yep so this is the Mount Elbert trail just how long it is pictures from it you can click on it you get in there and you can see more of the details from the trail right there this is a cool way to plan out different treks that you might do different hiking trails you might take on just depending on where you're gonna go if you'd like doing a road trip or something like that it's pretty cool and definitely something that's really useful in terms of you know just exploring the world so I hope this is useful to you and thanks for watching this tutorial how to do it in this video I'm going to show you how to enable the roads layer inside of Google Earth Pro which will show all of the roads over this map so if you would need right here do down in your layers tab under the photos right next to it actually you click on this box right here this is roads really simple then that will enable your roads okay so if we zoom out and we go over to somewhere Europe right the roads will populate over here as well as you can see they're kind of drawing themselves out it's a lot to draw they're tons of roads everywhere so you're gonna have to give it a little bit of time on your first loading it or you're gonna want to be zoomed in so that you can see specifically where you want to see now you may be asking why would I do this right you might find this useful in conjunction with some other layers like borders and counties other other things of that nature it might help you in terms of what you're trying to build okay they could just show you you know a good way to get somewhere but for that I would probably use the directions Society Google Maps or any of the other Maps tools you have because we have a lot these days so anyhow that is how to show all the maps in the world inside of Google Earth Pro thank you for watching support my channel in the description and I'll see you next time in this video I'm going to show you how to use Google Earth Pro to actually view the moon so what you're gonna want to do just go up to the top here click on this little planets button you can also see just planets the sky just other universes telescope imagery here Mars and the moon you're gonna click on the moon there and give it just a second and it'll load into moon so basically this is just compiled of satellite imagery telescope imagery that we have and you can view it as a whole planet to be honest not 100% sure how we got the dark side but I assume it was probably with one of our probes that we've sent out we probably just shot pictures of it on the back end I don't really know if that's possible but it has all of the different areas of the moon laid out for you in the shows landing spots and all the stuff some of the imagery is rather good so you can you see a lot going on it's and these craters are completely freaking massive that's kind of insane anyhow yeah that's how you see the moon inside of Google Earth pearl I hope this is helpful it's a pretty cool educational tool for those of you who are teachers or you just want to explore look around to things so I hope this video helps you and having order in this video I'm going to show you how to enable all of your country names inside of Google Earth Pro so that you can show where all of the countries are okay so this is a good geography tool use it how you want to use it here's what you do you go over to the layers tab which is on the left hand side here and then you're gonna have under your under your layers you're gonna have something that's borders and layers right here and then you're just gonna pop open layers sorry you're gonna pop up my borders right and then you're just going to click on country names right and then that is going to populate all of your country names now if you want to add the borders to use the international borders and that will show you the borders of all of these countries right so there you have it that's how you enable the country names overlay and the international borders overlay inside of Google Earth Pro thank you so much for watching I hope this helped you a lot and have a good one in this video we're gonna show you how to find shipwrecks inside Google Earth Pro so what you're gonna want to do is go to ocean in the layers tab on the left side and then just click on shipwrecks what that's gonna do is populate shipwrecks they'll come up here you'd be able to see all these different ones so when you click on them it's gonna give you details about why it's sunk or whatever details that they have there's actually a surprising amount out here it's actually pretty cool so if you ever want to go and search for sunken treasure and this is probably a pretty good layer for you you can see you know get over here toward Bermuda yeah that's a pretty cool later I just wanted to show you all that real quick thanks for watching check out the links in the description and I'll see you in the next video in this video I'm going to show you how to populate Wikipedia into your Google Earth Pro interface so that when you're looking at areas you can actually see a link to some of the wikipedia information to it which is really cool you're exploring areas so if you go over to your layers tab you're just gonna want to go down to where it says more there's a little yellow sticking out there and then you're just gonna want to slide down to the Wikipedia button and now you're gonna click on that you know take just a second but then it'll start to load everything up for you and as you can see here you're gonna have these little Wikipedia art i conce come up for these different areas I'm just in California and I'm just gonna click on this right here and it's going to give me all the Wikipedia links right here there's going to be some images if they have them same over here yep really cool stuff so definitely helpful whenever you are exploring places and you wanna know more about them very cool this is the Redwood National and state parks very neat so just a very cool educational tool and the way to use Google Earth Pro and a really helpful learning resource all around so I hope this is helpful to you and that this tutorial was easy enough for you just go ahead and like this video if you liked it and it helped you out and subscribe my channel for more tutorial videos thank you for watching in this video I'm gonna show you all how to select and show your counties right so all of your counties or your second level admin regions as it's considered and Google Earth Pro this is a really cool tool if you were trying to teach your class about counties or you just want to know where something Falls like in terms of a building on your map or whatever so which we're just gonna go down this random area I don't even know where at and then you're gonna go to your layers tab here and Google alright good kuroh and you're gonna do the following path in your porters and labels click that open you know borders and click that open and then you're gonna check second-level admin regions counties and then you will begin to see all of the counties populate right so it'll take some time it's not the fastest thing in the world but you can see all of the counties populating and drawing out yeah that's a really cool tool and I just want to share that with you that is how you can see counties inside of Google Earth Pro thanks for watching in this video I'm going to show you how to see real-time clouds and storms inside of Google Earth Pro so we have all of Google Earth up right now and you're just going to go over here to the weather tab under your layers right this should automatically load for you and you just want to click the box next to clouds and then what this will do will allow you to see a real-time picture of what sort of cloud movement we have going on okay you can also go down here and you can click on storms it's right here bam storms there's also store got here as well and that's how you do that thanks for watching in this video I'm going to show you how the sunlight feature works in Google Earth so the sunlight feature you can go ahead and just click the little Sun button up here in the toolbar and then what you can do is you're gonna drag the slider to show when the Sun is up at different times right so what we're gonna want to do is take our time zone right so I'm just gonna go ahead and do a eastern standard time North America and then just do this then I'll go and I'll see alright so eastern standard time it's roughly like right here in this whole area and I'm gonna go and I'm gonna make it be yeah 8:00 a.m. they're getting summarized all the way down to yep right now eight o'clock within these dates right so you know usually gets dark like four so alright so there you go that's really how you do it this is good if you want to see potential if you want to try to estimate shade or just kind of know where the Sun is at in a certain part of the world and your time which is kind of cool but anyhow thanks for watching what's going on guys we're gonna talk about how to drop a point to save a place or location inside of Google Earth Pro so what we're gonna want to do is figure out where we want to drop our point and we can do this by looking around on the map and finding a physical area that we want to drop a point on or we can search for a place so that's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna do Montana and I'm just gonna go to Montana okay and it's zooming in right here and up here in the top area it's gonna say add place mark which is where we chopped our points so this box will come up for you to name your point I'm going to just name it a place in Montana right and then I'm going to yeah maybe I don't want to put it there maybe I want to put it over by this lake so I'm going to say actually a lake and you can name this anything this is just what I want to paint it so I've decided where I want my point to be right I've placed it physically on the map I could also put in the latitude and longitude of that location you can also put in some other coordinate options we'll talk about those in a later video this button right here will allow you to change the icon which is a preset bunch of icons that are in Google Earth Pro you can't add custom icons though so we will go ahead and use this arrow just because that's the one I feel like I want to use I'm going to zoom in here a little bit using the scroll wheel okay we can go over here and we can change the color for our label if we want so we can change the text and then also the scale a couple of other cool things there you can see our view information which makes just a lat/long and then talking us over a little bit we can change where this actually is relative to the ground sea for cetera et cetera so I believe if I do relative to ground and then I move this slightly and it will actually raise it up in the air so that is actually hovering over that lake so this could be clearer for your specific points if you would like one thing you can also do is you can add links so I want to add a picture of Montana which I happen to have a preset link to and I added that link in there and hit OK so now when I click on this point right here it will show me that link and give me an option to give directions to here or from here and then it'll also show up in my places and I can say that if I want I can say that place that's the basics of setting a place mark or what's commonly known as dropping a point inside of Google Earth Pro thanks for watching check out my links in the description and see you in the next video

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Published: Thu Jan 02 2020