Thanks once again, Betty, for sending valuable information to the lists. But it should be noted that you have to have a fairly new computer and software to make this work. Currently you can't do this on a Mac as well. Someone recently steered me to maps.google.com as a far superior way to get driving instructions. And that too wouldn't work on my aging Mac. Lois > From: "Betty A. Pace" <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 07:44:51 -0400 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [RowanRoots] Google Maps -- Worldwide > Resent-From: [email protected] > Resent-Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 05:45:23 -0600 > > 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." > > ______________________________ > > > ==== ROWANROOTS Mailing List ==== > The list administrator can be reached at [email protected] >