Zoom out (up) from your image using the scroll wheel, the trackpad, or by clicking the button in the “-“ upper right: If you had the 50mm lens, zoom out to an altitude” (lower right hand of screen) of about 100 “eye miles: If you had the 180mm lens, only zoom out to about 27 miles: and drag to rotate the (North) on the compass until it looks about like this: “N” Center and adjust the zoom for the image in google Earth so that the image looks very much like your EarthKAM image. It helps to have them side by side on your computer screen: Finally, click the Pin” button to save your location on the computer that you are using. Change “Push the name from Placemark” to your name and the image number. Example: “Untitled Re-check these four blue buttons: “Layers” Doing this will allow you to see what named areas you have in your image Finally, save that Push Pin location from Google Earth to your CRSD google drive. Click to highlight your pushpin that you just saved, then under the menu, choose place as” and save it to your “File” “save computer and then drag it to your google drive while you are still logged in to google classroom. You can also right-click it and select Place As…” “Save The file you save should have a file extension as the last three digits in its name: “.kmz” You are now ready for EarthKAM Step III!
Zoom out (up) from your image using the scroll wheel, the trackpad, or by clicking the “-“ button in the upper right: If you had the 50mm lens, zoom out to an “eye altitude” (lower right hand of screen) of about 100 miles: If you had the 180mm lens, only zoom out to about 27 miles: and drag to rotate the “N” (North) on the compass until it looks about like this: Center and adjust the zoom for the image in google Earth so that the image looks very much like your EarthKAM image. It helps to have them side by side on your computer screen: Finally, click the “Push Pin” button to save your location on the computer that you are using. Change the name from “Untitled Placemark” to your name and the image number. Example: Re-check these four blue “Layers” buttons: Doing this will allow you to see what named areas you have in your image Finally, save that Push Pin location from Google Earth to your CRSD google drive. Click to highlight your pushpin that you just saved, then under the “File” menu, choose “save place as” and save it to your computer and then drag it to your google drive while you are still logged in to google classroom. You can also right-click it and select “Save Place As…” The file you save should have a “.kmz” file extension as the last three digits in its name: You are now ready for EarthKAM Step III!