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Google Earth
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:58 am
by luvbugin
Has anyone heard of this? My hubby told me about it and I thought I would check it out. AWESOME! Google Earth shows you a satellite view of everything. We saw our car out in front of our house! It's freaky!
Check it out!
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 1:38 am
by deepdiver32073
I've got the browser and it IS awesome. I even checked out Area 51. My house is real blurry, but my brother's house is very clear. You can see his old truck in front of the house. The site is basically a compilation of satelite and recon airplane photos from all over the world. Type in an address or coordinates and it'll zoom you right there.
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:35 am
by Bandyta
the one by microsoft will let you connect ur gps to it and u can blink right on the map.
pretty sweet shit. i hope they fix up all the other places also, they only did the major places.
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:55 am
by emanon
NASA (as in the space program) World Wind is another such project. The difference being this one is open source and has been around longer I believe. The NASA project does have some interesting plugins for weather tracking and other environment monitoring features that make it an interesting (if you asre into that kind of thing)way to burn through some time.
worldwind.arc.nasa.gov
for those interested
-emanonononon
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 3:08 am
by Bandyta
thanks emanonononon
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:36 am
by WAY
Also, World Wind is open source, so you can develop your own applications around it..!
LMAO @ emanonononon
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2005 6:40 am
by AYHJA
Damn, I made a post about something that Google earth did that was cool, but I can't remember it now...Dammit...One of the satellites captured a really neat image of some spot in South America...DAMN..! I hate when I can't remember shit...Let me see if I can find it via search...
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:29 am
by emanon
the "jesus likeness" off of the western coast just about where it bulges out a little along the coast of chile might be what you are thinking of
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 6:19 pm
by bd55
World Wind is really great. Google Earth has some better resolution in many places, but World Wind has every single village in the world marked. It's very impressive.
Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2005 8:45 pm
by WAY
They only have better resolutions and sat images, simply because Google can afford to buy em of the satellite owners.. If NASA gets around to it, I'll probably use that instead..