Before the Internet, planning meant buying an informative guidebook and map of your destination.Use the Internet to get as much information as you can about what to see, how to get around, when attractions open and shut.Speak to someone who knows your destination: you may have a friend who has recently been, or better still know of someone who has lived there.It is not just about deciding what to pack – although this is important– it is also about knowing what to expect, especially if you are going somewhere that you have not been to before. Good planning and preparation before your departure is vital to getting the travel photography you want. Click through our gallery to see some of the pictures already on Google Earth.Travel Photography: Using Google Earth to Plan Your Photography Tripsįor so many of us, a short holiday or city break is the only chance we have to travel, and photography provides the proof and memories of times well spent.įrom the biggest cities to the sleepiest villages, nearly every location has a well-known landmark, or a favourite view that every visitor wants to photograph. You can manually geotag pictures, but a number of cameras now have GPS built-in, including the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ10, Sony Alpha SLT-A55 and Samsung ST1000, all winner's of our prestijus Editors' Choice award. To get involved, all you have to do is take a panoramic shot and submit it to one of the sharing sites, geotagged with the location it was taken. Other layers on Google Earth include weather, roads, 3D buildings and ' global awareness', a layer that allows charity and non-profit do-gooders to illustrate the work they do. Kinda.ģ60cities features the same fantastic 360-degree scrolling around the panoramic shots right in your broswer, making you feel almost like you're actually there. Click again to go into full-screen 360-degree viewing mode to zip round the high-resolution photo and feel like you're actually there. Clicking on one brings up an info bubble telling you who took the shot. Panoramic shots are marked with a red square icon in Google Earth. Turning on the layer allows you to see user-submitted photos from location-based photo-sharing sites Panoramio and.
Google's incredible multimedia mapping software now has a new layer to display the geotagged photos. Google Earth has added panoramic photos to land you right in the middle of the world's most beautiful locations, without shelling out a fortune on an airfare.
0 kommentar(er)
