I discovered a really useful tool at Google Earth blog today.
The Nearby placemark, click to download file adds a link from the current position in Google Earth via an information window to the corresponding location on a Google Map. Alternatively, choose to be taken to the Nearby website and a wide choice of alternative online map destinations.
It might well be that GlobeGlider will perform a similar function, even more efficiently, but I can’t get it to work on my computer yet. There seems to be a consensus view that Google will provide similar functionality as part of Google Earth in due course, in the meantime Nearby is a simple and highly effective tool that deserves a spot in anyone’s My Places folder. The author of the Nearby.org.uk site is a developer at Geograph, and has produced a number of other Google Earth related applications.
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