{"id":248,"date":"2005-06-30T00:03:38","date_gmt":"2005-06-30T00:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/30\/earth-calling-google\/"},"modified":"2005-06-30T00:03:38","modified_gmt":"2005-06-30T00:03:38","slug":"earth-calling-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2005\/06\/earth-calling-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth calling Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The subject of the email from GoogleLabs was enticing.&nbsp; And the contents even more so :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Want to know more about a specific location? Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world\u2019s geographic information at your fingertips.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the beta site <a class=\"offsite-link-inline\" href=\"http:\/\/earth.google.com\/\" target=\"new\">earth.google.com<\/a> :<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Fly from space to your neighborhood. Type in an address and zoom right in. <br \/>&#8211; Search for schools, parks, restaurants, and hotels. Get driving directions. <br \/>&#8211; Tilt and rotate the view to see 3D terrain and buildings. <br \/>&#8211; Save and share your searches and favorites. Even add your own annotations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The idea is simple. It\u2019s a globe that sits inside your PC. You point and zoom to anyplace on the planet that you want to explore. Satellite images and local facts zoom into view.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The best part?&nbsp; Google Earth is free for personal use. No registration required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The subject of the email from GoogleLabs was enticing.  And the contents even more so&#8230; The best part?  Google Earth is free for personal use. No registration required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-technology"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}