How data from Google Earth helps us understand the world, and ourselves

This, Moore says, is an example of Google Earth helping keep people safe, and making that really accessible to people through products like Google Maps, that a billion people use.

As Moore says, Anyone can go in and use it as a canvas you can capture and document something you think is important for people to understand. One example she gives is indigenous communities, which have used Google Earth to map the places they care about which have come under threat.

As Moore puts it, Google Earth benefits the ordinary person to by feeding insights to their policy-makers in addition to helping them see the world for themselves.

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