google earth

[Mr-H]

I know that you type a destination and google earth 'flies' you to that place - can you do that in reverse? i.e. can you find a place on the globe, then ask google earth 'where am I?'

[ACtheTROLL]

how do you find it if you don't know where it is?

[ACtheTROLL]

right click - what's here?

[ChuckFickens]

zooming out should give you a hint as to where it is!!

[Mr-H]

What I mean is surf to somewhere and then ask 'where am I?'

[Mr-H]

Sorry - to continue - lets say that I find a town (or whatever) that I like the look of; if I can't ask google earth where I am, how can I find out? Can I get the names of towns, villages etc. displayed?

[SpodoCommodo]

If you turn on the sidebar, then there are a lot of layers that you can turn on that give you all that type of info.

[ACtheTROLL]

as I said before right click - what's here?

just point at the area - right click - from the menu - what's here?

[Mr-H]

Sorry AC, but if I right-click I get what might be called a target - a circle with 4 small lines - one at each compass point. I don't get any form of menu whereby I could then click on 'what's here'. Am I (once again, no doubt) being thick?

[ChuckFickens]

and what happens if you left click to "aim" that target and then right click?

[Mr-H]

Left click zooms in, right click zooms out