Google Earth

[willawake]

anybody check google earth yet?

http://earth.google.com/

its quite good. suprised to find my house on it.

[Fatal0E]

Re: Google Earth

have not tried it
have seen about a dozen computers where the people just installed it, then computer locked up and would not reboot, were missing many windows files

[willawake]

Re: Google Earth

oh great......

then it is probably safer to check out the interesting bits on

http://www.googleearthhacks.com/

they have captures of interesting bits in the download area

[arneson]

Re: Google Earth

I have had no problem with it even on the old laptop.
I like the tilt function and spent some time labeling all the locations I've lived.
It's a Big World.

[willawake]

Re: Google Earth

google earth beta4 is for linux also

[linuxguru]

Re: Google Earth

Yup - I tried the Linux version, and it works flawlessly on Fedora Core 3 & 4. However, it needs accelerated OpenGL drivers for best results with 3D accelerators like NVidia/ATI cards. Also, it's packaged as a compressed self-extracting script, rather than as an RPM or similar, which would have been more useful for uninstalling or upgrading.

All in all, it's an outstanding beta product - well worth the try. One more reason to use Windoze has vanished.

[arneson]

Re: Google Earth

Paid the $20 for the plus version.
Connected garmin GPS and all my waypoints are on google earth.

[arneson]

Re: Google Earth

I've been deeply studying the cover of Maxim, as seen from space.
It's out in the desert of course near Vegas.
Wait for her to come in focus and zoom way in, any idea how this was done?
The most impressive feature of this is the community, where anyone can ask or comment about anything on the earth and get a response from everyone.
I zoomed into Front street in Hamilton BM and saw a question mark on the ocean liner parked there. Someone had asked what ship it was and got a reply from a couple of people, that's very powerful.

[VILE DISRUPTION]

Re: Google Earth

i tried it. very good. found my house. though i never see people or cars on the road.

[willawake]

Re: Google Earth

has anyone seen sydney on google maps. they did an aircraft flyby on australia day and some of the resolution is very high indeed

http://maps.google.com.au/?ie=UTF8&o...2,0.000314&t=k

looks like a really nice place

[willawake]

Re: Google Earth

look at this one
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=e...m=1&iwloc=addr

[Per Hansson]

Re: Google Earth

Ohh, babes

I like it

[willawake]

Re: Google Earth

some friends of yours? http://www.cali2006.com

[stevo1210]

Re: Google Earth

has anyone seen sydney on google maps. they did an aircraft flyby on australia day and some of the resolution is very high indeed

http://maps.google.com.au/?ie=UTF8&o...2,0.000314&t=k

looks like a really nice place

It is a nice place indeed....

I think that the high resolution area on Google maps is a suburb called Point Piper.... Thats what the map tells me but.... I could be wrong though.

I wish I could live out at Point Piper but i'd have to be a millionaire to do so.
The views out there are wonderful (If you live next to the ocean that is).... The houses etc. are also expensive out there....

I'm from the south western areas of Sydney, but luckilly I live on a hill so I can just see the Sydney city skyline from my room. But it is no where as good as living right next to the beach....

[willawake]

Re: Google Earth

yeah i can see almost every house with a tennis court and swimming pool
damn rich people

[willawake]

Re: Google Earth

you know the google earth community which you can select in google earth to see their placemarks and comments.

which site is that?

i would like to contribute some maritime Greece placemarks. how can i do that?