Google Earth is my new favorite toy

This post is a bit random, but I wanted to share with you all my current new obsession. So Google Earth isn't new by any means. I used it years ago, I feel like back when it first came out. back then it was mostly satellite data, which was already pretty cool, but it's MUCH cooler now. Now most major cities and geological sites have extremely detailed 3D data.

_{Hong Kong}

You can literally fly around the world and see detailed 3D maps of the entire world. Not every city has 3D data though. I watched a video and found out that the 3D data is captured from airplanes, so I guess Google can't just fly over anyone's airspace, but the ones it does have look great and are amazingly detailed.

_{The Grand Canyon}

_{Hollywood(obviously)}

Over the past few days, I've spent hours just exploring. It's also exposing my ignorance of geography. Since I don't have a globe in my house, I realize there's a lot of places in the world that I know of, but I didn't actually know where on the planet they were. Like Fiji, and to be honest, I didn't even know where New Zealand was in relation to everything else. It's really fun to just fly around the world and explore. Not to mention, all the places where people have uploaded photos to Google, you can see those y clicking on the different sites. I was even able to see some monuments in North Korea.

_{San Juan, Puerto Rico}

So if you haven't played with Google Earth in a while I highly recommend it. It's super fun to get lost and explore a virtual version of our planet!

https://earth.google.com/web/