Thanks Betty ! That is too cool!! Audrey Fetterhoff Orlando, FL In a message dated 7/11/2005 8:00:44 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, NCRUTHER-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: X-Message: #1 Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 07:44:51 -0400 From: "Betty A. Pace" <bapace2@juno.com> To: NCRUTHER-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20050711.074452.-585105.4.bapace2@juno.com> Subject: Google Maps -- Worldwide Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I use Google maps for addresses and satellite views of addresses. But there is a program that improves on what I have been doing. Even without the download, I tried my own address and with the satellite view, I could see my own house. Try Google maps for area search...New and BRILLIANT, road maps and satellite views with infinite scrolling in any direction. An astonishingly intimate view; see fields and rivers in Greensboro, Liverpool, Iraq, Western Australia as easy as pushing a button, find the highest point on Ararat, find your house (though you have to imagine the garden gnomes), make the earth spin and stop as you choose. Google Earth. earth.google.com for Windows XP or 2000 http://desktop.google.com/download/earth/ to download the application. "The Fly To feature accepts an address, place name, cross street or simple Latitude/Longitude coordinates and zooms you quickly in to the specified location, typically stopping at an altitude of about 3,000 feet above ground. From this point, use the controls to zoom, tilt, pan or rotate the view. Checkboxes next to the navigation controls allow you to overlay lodging, roads, terrain, dining, geographical borders and 3D buildings over the satellite image. Even more overlays are available using the "layers" features. Additional layers allow you to overlay data points of geographic interest over images."