Goggle Earth
get it - i cant stress this enough
Google Earth: Friggin amazing
Goggle Earth
get it - i cant stress this enough
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
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Re: Google Earth: Friggin amazing
It seems useless to me.
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." - John Kenneth Galbraith
Re: Google Earth: Friggin amazing
do you have it?
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
Re: Google Earth: Friggin amazing
Have you tried NASA's World Wind?
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
Could this be the same thing?
"Never in physical action had I discovered the chilling satisfaction of words. Never in words had I experienced the hot darkness of action. Somewhere there must be a higher principle which reconciles art and action. That principle, it occurred to me, was death." -Yukio Mishima
Re: Google Earth: Friggin amazing
il download that too and tell you the differences.
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
Re: Google Earth: Friggin amazing
google earth is better.
unless you are into the weather
NASA's program is really laggy on my comp
"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
-Eric "George Orwell" Blair
"If the policy of the government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court...the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned the government into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
(Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, 1861).
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
Re: Google Earth: Friggin amazing
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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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Ja mata Tosa Inu-sama, Hore Tore, Adrian II, Sigurd, Fragony
Mouzafphaerre is known elsewhere as Urwendil/Urwendur/Kibilturg...
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Re: Google Earth: Friggin amazing
My village is just a blob
"A man may fight for many things: his country, his principles, his friends, the glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mudwrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a stack of French porn."
- Edmund Blackadder
Re: Google Earth: Friggin amazing
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).
Re: Google Earth: Friggin amazing
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.
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Re: Google Earth: Friggin amazing
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Ja mata Tosa Inu-sama, Hore Tore, Adrian II, Sigurd, Fragony
Mouzafphaerre is known elsewhere as Urwendil/Urwendur/Kibilturg...
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