How Accurate is Google Earth?

Setting off through the desert

Just out of curiosity I opened our GPS track on Google Earth, then monkeyed around with various perspectives (including "Ground Level View") to test how accurate Google Earth is.  I came away from the experiment pretty impressed.  Even when I went down to ground level, the computer-generated image of the landscape was fairly accurate.  Even though I was impressed with Google Earth's capabilities, Becca could care less.


Giant Yucca on the foothills trail












 

Garmin GPS track on Google Earth

Out of the foothills into the lower desert

Google Earth view:  Tortugas (left) and Organ Mountains

Bushwhacking from right, then on dirt road

Back up into the foothills (centerline) then down (foreground)



Google Earth view of the dirt road to-and-from the mountain