Effects: Create special effects with fog and other atmospheric effects.Color Themes: Choose from different color themes for your wallpapers.Clouds and Lightning: View clouds, hurricanes and lightning storms in real-time.Beautiful Photos: Enjoy beautiful photos of Earth from various angles.Automatically Changes: Wallpapers change automatically at regular intervals.Adjustable Settings: Adjust wallpaper settings and customize the look and feel of your desktop.This screensaver can display the Earth as either a 3D sphere (a globe) or a flat-view of the Earth's surface.Īlong with acting as a PC screensaver, this application can also be configured to work as a live 3D background in place of your desktop wallpaper. With this cool screensaver, you view a 3D image of the Earth which includes live clouds and weather and displays the time of day, depending upon where you're viewing the Earth from. Here's an example of a Fly-Over of a route from plotaroute.Provides high-detail views of the Earth at day and night.ĮarthView displays high detail views of the earth at day and night.ĮarthView is a 3D screensaver application which converts your Windows desktop into a view from space looking down on our planet.A viewing distance of around 300m usually works quite well. You can alter the viewing angle and viewing distance in the Touring tab in Google Earth Settings/Preferences - a viewing angle of 70-80 degrees will give you a good view of the hills and the route comuing up.You can view an animated Fly-Over the route by clicking on the 'Fly-Over Tour' item in the left panel (arrow 1 below) and then clicking the Play Tour button (arrow 2 below).Once the file has downloaded, simply click on it to open the route in Google Earth.Then select KML as the GPS download file format and choose whether you would like to include mile/km markers.Select Download from the menu above the map.You can also download the Google Earth app for mobile devices from your app store and view the route in Google Earth on your smartphone. You will first need to download and install Google Earth if you don't already have it.You can even watch a fly-over the route! Follow these instructions. You can view any route from in glorious 3D using Google Earth.

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