Google Earth, Amazing Free Program, Amazing.

TinderBox (UK) · Aug 31, 2006

Gives you a virtual world, made up from real satellite pictures.

I zoomed into the street that I live in and you can see the cars, amazing.

have a look anywhere in the world.

http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

regards.

StevieRay · Aug 31, 2006

Old News! Been around for over a year! :poke:

NickelPlate · Aug 31, 2006

Makes the world seem really small.

JanCPF · Aug 31, 2006

Tinder,
Where have you been? :nana:

You're right though - it's quite an amazing toy

LumenHound · Aug 31, 2006

Be aware that some of the images Google Earth uses can be quite old. The view of my backyard shows a fully grown Poplar tree in the corner of the lot but I cut that tree down 5 years ago because it was starting to rot. For all I know the images of my part of town could be as much as 7 years old. Local construction and arterial roadway expansion is a more reliable way of dating the images.

Illum · Aug 31, 2006

Where have you been? :bumpit:

check Nasa's World-wind program:rock:
its a continuously updated enhanced google earth program thats more "realistic" than objective projections the google earth .exe can show... :ohgeez:

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ :naughty:

one problem...you might need a new video card in the process...it preferrs at least 128 mb of dedicated vid-mem:touche:

jch79 · Aug 31, 2006

Google Earth Plus is only $20 a year - and worth it for higher-res prints and views. And the NASA program looks cool, but no Mac support!! :thumbsdow

TedTheLed · Sep 1, 2006

rats - not only that you need dsl, and I'm dialup. pity me.

System Requirements

* Windows 2000, or XP
* Intel Pentium 3, 1 GHz, or AMD Athlon or higher
* 256 MB of RAM
* 3D Graphics Card
* See video card compatibility list at http://www.worldwindcentral.com/wiki/Video_Card_Compatibility
* DSL / Cable connection or faster
* 2 GB of disk space

senecaripple · Sep 1, 2006

some geocachers have this downloaded on their gps!

Unicorn · Sep 1, 2006

Cool. I'd never heard of World Wind before. II'm downloading it now to try out. I like Google Earth, but it can be up to 7 years out of date I believe.

chesterqw · Sep 1, 2006

world wind here i come!

TinderBox (UK) · Sep 1, 2006

I tried world wind, but you cant zoom in as far as Google earth.

I cant even see my housing estate, never mind cars in the street, unless i am doing something wrong.

regards.

LowBat · Sep 1, 2006

I use Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/

Is Google Earth the same as Google Maps only downloaded instead of online?

K A · Sep 1, 2006

If you use the Hybrid function in Google Maps (so it overlays the streets atop the sat photos) it's almost the same as Google Earth. But you can also set Google Earth to show businesses. Gas, food, lodging, etc.

Ras_Thavas · Sep 1, 2006

Windows local live is also cool.

Razor · Sep 1, 2006

LowBat said:
I use Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/

Is Google Earth the same as Google Maps only downloaded instead of online?

I believe Google Earth and Maps run off the same satellite imaging server (correct me if I'm wrong). Both only work if your connected to the internert. However, Earth is a much more feature-packed interface for bookmarking places, and toggling road/border/etc topographical overlays.

LowBat · Sep 2, 2006

Ras_Thavas said:
Windows local live is also cool.

That's a good one too; I just bookmarked it. Funny, I can see my van parked in this one.

Wait a minute... the house my parents have lived in for 8 years isn't even built yet according to the image on Windows Live Local. So much for calling it "live". The image is even in black and white. Hey, is that a T-Rex?

Trashman · Sep 2, 2006

There's also www.zillow.com. Type in your address and it gives a birdseye view of your house with it's residence stats (when it was built, # of rooms, baths, plan size, lot size) and shows it's estimated value. You can just scroll around the whole neighboorhood and it'll show the estimated value of every house (you can view the stats of them, too). The properties can be zoomed in a bit, too. Funny thing is, I think the photo of my house is the only one I've seen that has a person in it, and it looks like it's me (standing out front of my house by my car)!!

LowBat · Sep 2, 2006

Trashman said:
There's also www.zillow.com.

Wow, that's interesting!

Trashman · Sep 3, 2006

Yeah, now you can stop wondering what the estimated value of that big house on the hill is!

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