Google Earth Miyuki Akasaka HTM304 3/1/07 IS Presentation

What is Google Earth? Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.

How do you use it? Just type in an address, press Search, and you’ll zoom right in. You can find your home. Search for schools, parks, restaurants, and hotels. Get driving directions. Tilt and rotate the view to see 3D terrain and buildings. Save and share your searches and favorites

Here we are!! CSUSM campus

For Business Purposes…. 1. Commercial Real Estate Evaluate sites using the built in Google search for competitor locations and existing sites. Take clients and colleagues on aerial tours of any property

2. Residential Real Estate Market properties Give buyers dramatic fly-through tours of your properties' neighborhoods, showing everything from retail to transportation. Find homes You can fly through your market area, identify homes from the MLS, and check criteria like schools and shopping. Prospect for new customers Which potential buyers are ready to trade up? Now you can prospect from the air, saving valuable time in your car

3. Insurance Is a multi-unit residential building near an earthquake fault? Is a commercial development located on a flood plain?

4. Media Google Earth gives the media critical tools for understanding and relating the story in real time. (For example) -Google Earth solutions to show satellite imagery of Baghdad on air -Google Earth received national attention during the Iraq war when CNN and other broadcast media utilized

Other Businesses are… Architecture and Engineering State and Local Defense and Intelligence Federal/NGO Homeland Security

Limitation of Google Earth The picture is not the newest Microsoft is trying to compete

Google Earth 4 is released!!

Any Questions?