Try it out!
Our suggestions of tasks to get you up and running.
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Getting started activities
Easy tasks to get started
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Try out the different ways of searching using place names or zooming & panning to navigate to the location. Find your house and find your school.
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What is the length of Loch Ness? Find Loch Ness on a suitable map and use the Measurement Tools to measure the length/distance from one end to the other.
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Use the Drawing Tools to plot your journey to school and add a measurement label to show the distance.
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Search for a school you know and measure the area of the playground using the Measurement Tools.
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Measure the distance between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
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Go to Heathrow Airport, use the Aerial Imagery to find out how many aeroplanes are awaiting take off.
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Find out how many Time zones there are in Russia. Also see if you can find the place that is 8 ¾ hours ahead!
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Find the Grid Reference for the summit of Snowdon using the grid reference tool.
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View a historic map of Happisburgh, Norfolk and use the slider bar to fade between the 1890s and modern map to view how it has changed.
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Save your map, then create a printable PDF of your map.
More advanced tasks
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Use the buffer tool to plot a line with 100m size along the River Tay through Perth to investigate the potential impact of flooding (or any river that you wish).
- Create further buffers of differing distances (e.g. 200m, 500m) to investigate further impact.
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Add photos to any of your maps
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View a historic map of Perth, or anywhere of your choice. Use the Drawing Tools to draw a shaded area around the extent of the town/place.
- Compare the shaded area to a modern map to view the expansion since the 1890s