This recording is a brief introduction to the Geography Visualizer. Now, the Geography Visualizer is a geographic information system, which really means that it is a digital map that we can put data on top of, so we can add other maps which have information on them, so that we can understand our world. Now you can see at the moment that we have a satellite image, and on that is a lot of borders of the different countries. So this is a type of base map. So we can change the base map, which is a background map to have different maps that we can see. But this video is going to concentrate on some very simple things that we can do with the Geography Visualizer. First of all, we want to know how we can move the map around. Now, when using digital maps, we often call this panning, panning the map around. Now, the way that we do this is we can hold the left button of our mouse down and drag the screen across, and it allows us to put something different in the center of the screen. So you can see now that we have India in the center of the screen. The second thing that we want to do is we want to be able to zoom in. So at the moment we're looking at a map, which is showing the majority of the world, but I want to zoom in, so I can see something in a bit more detail. So there's two ways that we can do this. If we have a scroll wheel in the middle of our mouse, we can just move the scroll wheel and it allows us to zoom in. The other way we can do it is we can go to the left hand side and there is a zoom out and a zoom in button, and we can use these to zoom in and out. The third and final thing I'm going to show you here is a way to search for a place and go directly to a place without moving the map on and zooming. So on the left hand side, the top left hand corner, you'll see a magnifying glass, and if I hover over that, it says open search. If I click on that and then I type in a place, so here I'm going to type in London. I can then see there's a lot of different options that I can now click. Now there might be a lot of Londons in the world, but I can see that this is the one I want to go to. London, Greater London, England. It will then take us across the world and then it will zoom in to London, and then I can see it on my map. If I want to zoom in any closer, I can use the scroll wheel of my mouse and I can get a really clear picture and I can go really, really zoomed in so I can see a very clear picture of something that I might want to investigate.