ICantSpellDawg 04:07 09-04-2005
Zalmoxis 04:09 09-04-2005
It seems useless to me.
ICantSpellDawg 04:14 09-04-2005
do you have it?
Kongamato 04:19 09-04-2005
ICantSpellDawg 05:34 09-04-2005
il download that too and tell you the differences.
ICantSpellDawg 05:58 09-04-2005
google earth is better.
unless you are into the weather
NASA's program is really laggy on my comp
The Stranger 09:18 09-04-2005
eh zoom in on my school.
Montesori Lyceum, Rotterdam, Holland
you can see how it sucks Yihaa
Dutch_guy 11:22 09-04-2005
I have it , don't use it allot - never actually.
ICantSpellDawg 20:49 09-04-2005
oh well, i think that it is amazing.
i mark all of my trips by the hotels i stayed at.
i mark my friends houses, favorite places to eat, travel destinations for the future, anything at all, really.
Dutch_guy 21:49 09-04-2005
well the reason I stoped using it , was that my home neighborhood was so low-res.. just some green with the red line's.. nothing exiting, were I live
But zooming in on New york was cool though.
It has its moments. It will get old after a while, though.
I found a large burning something, who knows what it really is, while zooming in on the location where the 70's horror flick The Wicker Man was filmed. It's near Stein Head on the coast of Galloway almost directly north of the Isle of Man. That was interesting. It still makes me wonder. I had heard that a pagan cult had sprung up around the idea of burning huge whicker men as a result of the movie; but this seems to confirm it. You can see the flames and the smoke rising up from it. I hear a remake is being done next year, starring Nicholas Cage. Probably won't be as good as the original with Edward Woodward and Christopher Lee. Here are the coordinates if you want to check it out: 54°40'50.83"N 4°24'35.08"W
Mouzafphaerre 23:40 09-04-2005
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Precisely shows our neighbourhood but doesn't zoom in enough onto my mother's village (never actually). Shows the most crowded places in much detail I guess:
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ShadesPanther 00:49 09-05-2005
My village is just a blob
It seemed amazing if you are interested in the USA - it looks like you can see individual houses. But you could not even make out streets if you were interested in the UK (London was ok, the rest not) or the other countires I tried (Australia, Uganda, China).
The variance in detail is because of the variance in satellite images and technology used. Google Earth is composed of a patchwork of different satellite images, from older KH satellites to declassified military satellites to the older lower resolution earthsat images. A lot of the areas with lower resolution, which is really most of the world, are from older earthsat environmental studies. Most of those were meant to study things like plant coverage and such that doesn't really need high resolution. Very little of the images are from actual Keyhole satellite imaging. Those will tend to be much higher resolution. As more of the Earth is studied with the higher resolution satellites, more high resolution imagery will be available. The images are blended, so it's hard to determine which are older other than by resolution. Also, you'll notice that many images have a set of numbers for cloud coverage. The image slices often say 100% cloud cover for that image date. This means that the actual image you're seeing for that area has to be older, from when there was no cloud coverage.
Mouzafphaerre 04:34 09-05-2005
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ICantSpellDawg 05:40 09-05-2005
check out the grand canyon
and where i work
40°49'20.68"N 73°24'37.65"W
discovery1 06:29 09-05-2005
Originally Posted by TuffStuffMcGruff:
check out the grand canyon
and where i work
40°49'20.68"N 73°24'37.65"W
Some huge building with a white roof?
Urbana is a blob.....
Vegas is in high res though.
Ironside 07:05 09-05-2005
Man, I love The Onion. Best satire on the web.
Mikeus Caesar 19:38 09-05-2005
Originally Posted by :
A year ago, Google offered to scan every book on the planet for its Google Print project
Every book? Even dirty nude ones?
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