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J Dawg

Post Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:46 pm

Google Earth

Has anyone else tried this?

www.earth.google.com

Its a freeware extension of their existing satellite/ mapping system online now. It got great reviews in the newspaper so I checked it out. It allows you to view anywhere on earth in satellite photos of varying resoultions, then overlay streets, businesses, etc and search for driving directions. It pulls maps off the server as you navigate around the world so its a fairly conservative download. Its one of those things thats pointless, but incredibly cool. Sorry if this borders on advertising, I'd just like to know others opinions of this interesting, yet startlingly free venture on google's part. It mystefies me how then can release all these new services for free, and entertains me to watch MS play catch up at every corner...

Chupa

Post Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:56 pm

its way cool

I can see my house

Ph34r d4 C/-//_/p4c4br4

freighter fighter

Post Wed Jul 13, 2005 11:02 pm

the previous google maps was crap, you couldnt get beyond sattelite view of kent where i live, but you can get pretty close to area 51, and the area surrounding it used for underground nuke tests o_O

H.Q. Victor

Post Thu Jul 14, 2005 4:38 am

See the apartment complex where a I live, just not my truck.

Outcast 1-1 AKA Talon

Post Thu Jul 14, 2005 8:45 am

wow. Pity I dont have enough HD space.

J Dawg

Post Thu Jul 14, 2005 9:54 am

Anyone know how to find out when some of these photos were taken? I've been trying to gauge it based on local construction projects, and I'm guessing my house was viewed in 2000, but I'm not entirely sure. Are the dates listed somewhere?

Striedes

Post Thu Jul 14, 2005 10:35 am

Chupa,

I can see your house too!

Chupa

Post Thu Jul 14, 2005 10:43 am

Ohh, your so funny.

Alpha-Leader

Post Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:05 am

The pictures were taken 1-3 years ago and on the site I believe there is a way to figure the times for exact places. It wont install for me I click the exe but nothing happens

Chupa

Post Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:11 am

My pic was several years old too, I could see the camper of the guy who used to live in our house.

freighter fighter

Post Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:16 am

i've been traveling the world, perhaps now i can learn to navigate chicago without being there

Stormtrooper112

Post Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:27 pm

Hm,where is Area 51?

Chupa

Post Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:28 pm

Umm, It's near Roswell, New Mexico. I'm not sure after that.

freighter fighter

Post Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:30 pm

go to sightseeing, click area 51, and it takes you to the desert in nevada, a ways south of which, you can find an area used in nuke tests till 1992. you can see the craters.

Alpha-Leader

Post Fri Jul 15, 2005 6:31 am

You wouldnt see anyhting enar area 51 . Military has a schedule of when satellites fly over at certain times during the day they move everyhting outside underground so it cant be seen in photographs. They used to do this back during cold war with nukes and bombers so I wouldnt be suprised if they still do it at the current military testing grounds.

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