Searching the Internet for Images : key search engines. JISC Digital Media review of search engines for images. http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/stillimages/advice/review-of-image-search-engines/
Google Images • • •
A specialist image database containing over 1.3 billion images . Note copyright on the webpages should be checked before you use any of the images. The main address is http://images.google.com. Help screens are at: http://www.google.co.uk/help/faq_images.html The advanced search screen enables you to restrict your search to particular types of images. These include size, colour, file type (e.g. JPEG, GIF). There is also the option to restrict by usage rights to creative commons
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Free online maps http://maps.google.co.uk/ The maps are dragable, you can use your mouse or the directional arrows to pan left, right, up and down to see areas that are hidden off-screen You can also use the slider to zoom in and zoom out. Get directions - Type in a starting and a destination address – Google Maps plots the route for you (by road), displaying it visually on the map itself, together with step-by-step directions for getting there (or back from there). When you click on one of these steps, you see a floating bubble with a magnified view of the area mentioned in the directions. Not all locations are covered Google Street view http://maps.google.co.uk/streetview provides 360 degree street level views of many locations. Navigate to your desired location .To view street-level imagery for a specific location, click and drag to the location you want. Roads with street-level imagery available appear with a blue border. A street-level view appears for this location with an overview map in the bottom cornerTo close the view, click
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Google Latitude •
http://www.google.com/latitude/
a new service from Google that allows you to send your location to Google Maps and share it with friends via many mobile phones
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search engine for free photos. These come from many sources they include the creative commons area of Flickr http://www.everystockphoto.com/
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You can view a photo's license by clicking on the license icon, below and left of photos. Membership is free, without advertising, and allows you to rate, tag, collect and comment on photos.
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If you become a member you can create collections of images which can be stored online.
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The famous photo sharing website http://www.flickr.com/search/ The default search returns images from everyone’s public photos. Choose the advanced search form to log for keywords in tags or the full text descriptions. The latter will offer more hits. You can also search for still or video images. Look for creative commons.