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*Google maps
its basically an online map.
in Google maps you can see pictures of places, also terrain or weather of a place. also you can see how it looks from a satellite. the cool thing about this is that you can zoom in you can choose a country or even a city and zoom in until you can see the roads in that city. you could use this in a project about a country because for one it tells the location you can see the climate the cities and you can even look at pictures.  Google maps has something very interesting, at the left there is a picture of a little person you can drag that to any place in the map and it will show you pictures of that place. also in Google maps there is a search tool bar in which you can search any city and Google will take you directly to that city ans show you the map of that city. if you put satellite version you can see the buildings in a city but it different than Google earth because they are not in 3-D and  you cant zoom so much.
 Google earth
its not a map but more like a globe. in my opinion Google earth is  a more advanced app.  you can see 3-D images of terrain and of buildings. you can see parts of  cities and their surrounding  areas at ground level. with Google earth you can also zoom into water. you can see under water terrain of the great lakes and lake Baikal. two things that in my opinion are very cool and useful are: the separate globe of mars and that you can see satellite images of the moon. i think this is very good for school when we are researching about other planets or the moon because it gives us a  realistic view of this places. this two can be very useful for clases like science because with this maps it allows us to view the tarrain and other things of mars and the moon. eith google earth you can meke tours. i think this is super useful for projects and school pecause when you ar researching somehing you can go to google earth and look at where it happened. for example world war two i can make a "tour" of all the places in which they are concentrattion camps or where they are memorials now a dayetc.