Thursday, February 5, 2015

Google Maps... So Much More Than Just a Map!

Google Maps for Education
Google Maps is an application providing a fun and visual way to help students understand and learn about the world. Use Maps to teach geography concepts, map reading, location and distance measurement. Learn more at Google Maps Training.


Google My Maps (previously Google Maps Engine Lite )
Quickly and easily make and share custom maps. Whether you’d like to visualize protected forest areas, food drive drop-off areas, or the locations volcanos, this tool gives you the ability to draw and style points of interest, lines and shapes, import data from Google Drive spreadsheets, or as CSV files, Excel files and KML files and hare your map with colleagues and embed it on your website


Google Maps Street Views
Explore world landmarks, discover natural wonders, and step inside locations such as museums, arenas, restaurants and small businesses with 360-degree images on Google Maps with Street View.How does Google get those views? Check out About Google Maps Street View.

Google Maps Gallery
Google Maps Gallery, a new way for organizations to share and publish their maps online. Maps Gallery works like an interactive, digital atlas where anyone can search for and find rich, compelling maps. Teachers and students can access diverse mapping data, such as locations of municipal construction projects, historic city plans, population statistics, deforestation changes, up-to-date emergency evacuation routes and more.

Journey beyond the road
Select a Google Street View Trek to take students on a virtual field trip to far off lands such as Venice, the Taj Mahal, Churchill - Polar Bear Capital of the World and the Galapagos Islands.