Virtual Earth

AngeloAngelo Super Moderators Posts: 8,937 moderator
edited February 1, 2006 in The Big Picture
WOW!

Don't know if this has been shown before and if so I apologize but this is the coolest earth mapping I've seen.

The link below loads a section of Hollywood (Los Angeles) CA but you can seek out any place on earth. Enjoy.

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=34.106902~-118.33423&style=o&lvl=1&scene=3596710
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  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited January 31, 2006
    try google earth, its sweet!
  • livinginozlivinginoz Registered Users Posts: 497 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2006
    earth.google.com

    i found my sister's house in colorado. some places a slightly blurred, but the maps of southwestern USA are amazing.........
    laurie in rural minnesota

    my stuff
  • colourboxcolourbox Registered Users Posts: 2,095 Major grins
    edited January 31, 2006
    I read somewhere that to get those rotatable angled photographs, they actually have planes flying a grid pattern at a constant height and with cameras pointed at the ground at a constant 30(?) degrees, until the entire area is covered. That was the Wow for me.
  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,250 moderator
    edited January 31, 2006
    been googling the earth for a week now
    I even found the swiss army knife I had lost in cub scouts with google earth last week by the side of a parking lot up in a Wisconsin campground. I drove up there Saturday to retrieve it, but it was gone. I thought "how strange - been there for 37 years and someone takes it in 24 hours?"

    Then I learned that the pictures were taken 5 years ago. 11doh.gif

    Yet, google earth is a very cool program. Highly recommended for free. It's a bit slow on dialup though. eek7.gif

    A fun website to play with is http://www.googlesightseeing.com
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  • AngeloAngelo Super Moderators Posts: 8,937 moderator
    edited February 1, 2006
    nandysso wrote:
    try google earth, its sweet!

    it's also $400 eek7.gif
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  • ChrisJChrisJ Registered Users Posts: 2,164 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2006
    Angelo wrote:
    it's also $400 eek7.gif

    Only the "pro" version... This one is free. There's also a $20 version with GPS support.
    Chris
  • colourboxcolourbox Registered Users Posts: 2,095 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2006
    Virtual Earth seems to beat Google Maps, but Google Earth beats 'em all because of the way you can mark and save sets of places and the breathtaking fluidity of its dedicated interface, because it doesn't have to shoehorn the application through a browser window. An amazing deal for $0.

    Its only weakness is that you can only see the top view of everything, but try turning on Terrain and tilting the view until you see the horizon, then fly around!
  • rainforest1155rainforest1155 Registered Users Posts: 4,566 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2006
    colourbox wrote:
    Its only weakness is that you can only see the top view of everything, but try turning on Terrain and tilting the view until you see the horizon, then fly around!
    I do like their 'bird's view' better in terms of looking at specific houses than anything that google earth could possibly with their virtual terrain tilting, because it's the real deal - not some virtually 3d object with textures (from top only) squizzed on it.
    Thanks for the link - I hadn't seen this one! thumb.gif

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  • flyingdutchieflyingdutchie Registered Users Posts: 1,286 Major grins
    edited February 1, 2006
    rainforest1155 wrote:
    I do like their 'bird's view' better in terms of looking at specific houses than anything that google earth could possibly with their virtual terrain tilting, because it's the real deal - not some virtually 3d object with textures (from top only) squizzed on it.
    Thanks for the link - I hadn't seen this one! thumb.gif

    Sebastian

    And google earth has some AMAZING resolution for civic (non-military) purposes for some locations.
    Try to search for "Cambridge, MA". You can actually see that people put stuff on their car's dashboards! (you can not see what it is, but you can see that there is something there). Pot-holes in the roads are visible, etc... Very very cool.
    I can't grasp the notion of time.

    When I hear the earth will melt into the sun,
    in two billion years,
    all I can think is:
        "Will that be on a Monday?"
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  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited February 1, 2006
    I just did a little google earth search and put together a mosiac

    54754409-M.jpg

    on the left we have a taxi in NYC, in the middle is a taxi in Cambridge MA, and on the right is a car (no taxis!) on the "Google Earth Campus" I think that is the highest res place on google earth.

    All of these were screne shots zoomed in all the way

    can anyone find anywhere that has higher res?
  • David_S85David_S85 Administrators Posts: 13,250 moderator
    edited February 1, 2006
    Are you looking for your next used car via google earth?
    nandysso wrote:
    I just did a little google earth search and put together a mosiac

    54754409-M.jpg

    on the left we have a taxi in NYC, in the middle is a taxi in Cambridge MA, and on the right is a car (no taxis!) on the "Google Earth Campus" I think that is the highest res place on google earth.
    All of these were screne shots zoomed in all the way
    can anyone find anywhere that has higher res?

    The obstacle course thingy and the tents on the google campus are indeed very hi res, but I think they just grabbed a camera and jumped into one of their own helicopters and flew around their campus to create an example of what can be done with the technology.
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  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited February 1, 2006
    David_S85 wrote:
    Are you looking for your next used car via google earth?



    The obstacle course thingy and the tents on the google campus are indeed very hi res, but I think they just grabbed a camera and jumped into one of their own helicopters and flew around their campus to create an example of what can be done with the technology.

    probably. You could see someone flipping you off
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