Incredible Birding Tool!!

["John Morgan" <jmorgan480 at comcast dot net>]

[Birders: the following text accompanies all Google Earth Placemark 
emails---see my comments below]

You have been sent a Google Earth Placemark(tm).

If you have Google Earth installed, you can double-click on the attached 
Placemark file and it will fly you to a location. If not, you will need 
to install Google Earth first (available at http://earth.google.com).

Google Earth streams the world over wired and wireless networks enabling 
users to virtually go anywhere on the planet and see places in 
photographic detail.  This is not like any map you have ever seen.  This 
is a 3D model of the real world, based on real satellite images combined 
with maps, guides to restaurants, hotels, entertainment, businesses and 
more.  You can zoom from space to street level instantly and then pan or 
jump from place to place, city to city, even country to country.

Get Google Earth.  Put the world in perspective.

earth.google.com
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To all:
Out-of-the-box thinking is harder to come by at my age. I've known about 
Google Earth for some 3 months now, but all of a sudden it hit me like a 
ton of bricks early this A.M. that Google Earth is an incredible tool 
for us to pinpoint our sightings!

Literally, Google is handing us the world....in lovely 
accurately-photographed, texture-mapped 3D glory. You can go anywhere 
you want. You control your altitude, your angle of view, and the texture 
maps are incredible! Take a tour of the Wasatch Mountains, just for 
starters.

With each placemark, you'll see GPS coordinates. For the 
Photoshop/CorelDraw savy types, you can do a screen capture of the 
Google view, then overlay your own graphics, arrows and notations.

It's easy to download and install, and not too difficult to learn to 
navigate. Each of 3 mouse buttons has a function. A quick click/drag 
motion can get things moving faster, once you get the hang of it. Learn 
how to create new placemarks, then once applied, right-click them to 
enable that placemark to be emailed to others. I haven't yet learned how 
to attach multiple placemarkers into the same message, but the attached 
placemarker is where I saw the SS Hawk attack the Magpie.

Enjoy!! It's really cool stuff. Just for fun I'll send one more message 
with a link to where I think Pomera did the Virginia Reel after seeing 
her Rail.
John
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