Google Earth Outreach - June 29th, 2007 - When Google Earth was launched two years ago, a different and more accessible perspective of the planet became available to millions of users, presently standing at 250,000,000. At first, it was a place to go to see your house, explore your neighbourhood and maybe see where you went on holiday. But when Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, a new potential for geospatial information enabling a better understanding emerged. Since then, many non profit organizations contacted us asking questions about how they could integrate Google Earth into their work. Technical help, assistance and inspirational examples were clearly important. We have now launched the Google Earth Outreach program, offering support to non profit organizations, allowing them to provide an extra viewpoint on their work. Please read the Official Google Blog release by program manager Rebecca Moore on this exciting new initiative, which includes a video of the launch. - Thank you, The Google Earth Team

Tutorials Creating a Placemark Go to 'Add' > 'Placemark' to add a placemark to the region you're currently viewing. You can now edit the name and description of the placemark.  You can use HTML in the fields to enhance your placemark. You can change the color, size, and transparency of the label and icon. You can change how Google Earth will zoom in on your placemark when someone double clicks on it. You can change where your placemark appears in relation with the ground. By clicking on the icon in the top right corner of the 'Edit Placemark' dialog box, you can choose from many different icon designs for your placemark. By clicking on your placemark under the 'Places' group, you can view what others will see when they click on your placemark.