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Hi Folks: Today Google Earth unveiled a Web Site called Google Earth Outreach to support people and organizations who are interested in bringing awareness to outreach efforts around the world. According to Google: “Outreach gives non-profits and public benefit organizations like yours the knowledge and resources you need to reach their minds and their hearts”

This article on the All Africa News Web Site gives a nice view of the story.

In the Layers window of Google Earth, where you check and uncheck layers, you will find a box titled global awareness. When you click on the triangle to the left of the global awareness layer, you will be able to reveal many layers you can check and view. All of these are layers created by Google to increase global awareness about a number of issues.

You can add images directly into your placemark popup boxes in Google Earth

To get a picture to appear in your popup box, you have to use a little bit of programming code in your popup box. If you do this, you can officially call yourself a geek! Here’s how to do it.

Every image on the Internet has an address. Only images already on the Internet can be displayed in a placemark, you cannot place images on your computer into the placemark popup box.

To display an image, you have to click on an image on the Internet and copy the address.

Here’s the step-by-step:

1. Copy and paste the line of html code into your popup box.

<img src=”image_address”>

The image_address is the full http:// address of the image you want to display. The easiest method for getting this address is to right-click on the desired image on the web, and choose ‘copy image address’.

2. Paste the url (web address) of the picture between the quotes.

To create a hyperlink instead of posting the actual address of a Web Site in your popup box, you follow the same basis steps you followed for the image.

1. Copy the following line of code into your popup box.
<a href=”website_address”>clicked_on_text</a>

2. Paste your website address between the quotes. The website address is the full http:// address of the page you want to send someone to. Replace the line of code that says clicked_on_text with the visible text you want to appear in your popup box.