This KMZ file was created by Dale Witte to show the location of the 12 Tribes of Israel.
A KMZ file from Sacred Destinations can be downloaded from their website so you can explore interesting religious places in the world ( ).
You can find interesting features and places on the Google Earth Community website or search for KML/KMZ files by “file type” in Google’s Advanced Search. You can use these files to share places and information with other users. KML (Keyhole Markup Language) and KMZ (Keyhole Markup Zipped) is a file format used for modeling and storing geographic features in Google Earth. Remember to zoom in on a region to see if an icon appears. Check out 360 Cities, 3D Buildings, and National Geographic Magazine.
Interacting with the various layers in Google Earth is fun and educational.
Panoramio community members share their photos of travel locations and Google Earth selects images to embed in this layer.
Turn on Panoramio images in the Geographic Web layer to see photos from all around the world.
Some of the maps fit perfectly in Google earth while others reveal interesting geographical misconceptions of their time period.
In the Rumsey Historical Maps layer, you can view overlays of maps from historic period that represent the cartographic art of that time period.
You can visit sites such as the Roman Forum, Colosseum and the Forum of Julius Caesar.
In the Ancient Rome 3D layer, you can fly into Rome as it looked in 320 A.D.
Elevation is limited to natural geographic features, like mountains and canyons, and does not apply to buildings.
Turn on the Terrain layer to show 3D elevation of your current view.
Turn on the Borders and Labels layer to see outlines of countries and names of locations.
You can spend hours learning about the world by exploring this information. Layers content is created by Google (or its partners) and can be turned on or off by checking or unchecking various layers in the Layers Panel. The Layers feature in Google Earth provides a variety of points of interest that you can select to display over the map. The tour begins playing in the 3D viewer, which flies to each location and stops for a period of time before flying to the next place in the list. You can tour items in your Places listing by selecting the check box next to items you want to tour and clicking on the Play Tour button at the bottom of the Places panel. You can also share placemarkers with others on the Google Earth Community BBS website at. To permanently save this point of interest to the My Places folder, right-click on the placemark in the viewer and select Save to My Places. You can then name the placemark, write a description and choose a position and altitude for the placemarker icon. Use the Places panel to save and organize places that you visit, addresses, or natural features by zooming in on your location and clicking the Placemark icon on the toolbar menu. Another option to better see variations in geography is to go to Tools > Options and the 3D View Tab – change the “Elevation Exaggeration” to 2. There are also many keyboard controls for navigating Google Earth (for example Ctrl+Up=tilt up or try holding down Shift and use scroll wheel on mouse). Here you can tilt the view, move around, or zoom closer to view your location or better view the geography. Move your cursor over right corner of your screen to use the navigation controls. Google Earth will rotate the globe to the location and zoom in. You can “fly to” any place by typing the name of the location into the search bar and then press enter. When you first open Google Earth you will see a large globe of the world.