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Google Earth 5 Is Now Available

Google has just released Google Earth 5, which, like most Google products, is free. Most of the images created with Google Earth are also free to use in your projects (get permission before using them commercially -  a few are copyrighted).

This is a great tool for information product producers.

With Google Earth 5, you can document changes over time, tour underwater, and use satelitte imagery that is financially out of reach for all but the biggest corporations.

Think of the possibilities for your business.

Perhaps you are making a DVD documenting the Great Depression, using Public Domain archival photos and sound? With Google Earth, you can take your viewers back from the current look and feel of a location to its 1930s incarnation.

Watch the Great Plains go from farm land to dust bowl to farm land again. See cities rise in the midwest. Travel the endless highways with Woody Guthrie.

You can add a lot of oomph – and professional polish – to a video with a Google Earth fly over establishing shot. Let your imagination loose – this sort of footage is a goldmine!

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