Google maps - now with aerial view!

NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
edited April 10, 2005 in The Big Picture
Just noticed - google maps now offering satellite view.
Amazingly fast and high quality images!:thumb
"May the f/stop be with you!"

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  • rainforest1155rainforest1155 Registered Users Posts: 4,566 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2005
    Nikolai wrote:
    Just noticed - google maps now offering satellite view.
    Amazingly fast and high quality images!thumb.gif
    Yeah, I also have seen this. It works great, but too bad it's limited to the US so far.
    The speed and handling (dragging the map!) is incredible for a web based service.
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2005
    Even in US it's scarse..
    rainforest1155 wrote:
    Yeah, I also have seen this. It works great, but too bad it's limited to the US so far.
    The speed and handling (dragging the map!) is incredible for a web based service.
    For instance, check this view. There are 3 different quality regions: high, med and low res. My house is in the green one (med res), office is in gray one (hi-res). So I cannot show you my house:-(, not at this view (yet).

    NASA World Wind (great app, thank you so much for point me towards it!) also has very different coverage for different areas. I guess it's just the nature of the beast..
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  • bkrietebkriete Registered Users Posts: 168 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2005
    Google offers a free trial of Keyhole (their service off which this map satellite view thing is based) which allows much closer "zooming" in areas where they have high-res coverage. It's amazing to look at your apartment building and recognize the cars in the parking lot.
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2005
    It's a free *trial*..
    bkriete wrote:
    Google offers a free trial of Keyhole (their service off which this map satellite view thing is based) which allows much closer "zooming" in areas where they have high-res coverage. It's amazing to look at your apartment building and recognize the cars in the parking lot.
    It's sure great, but the full version is kinda pricey. As Sebastian pointed out, you can get a free NASA World Wind app - an absolutely amazing tool, especially considering the price.

    HTH
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2005
    i'm writing a &%$*@#$+ letter!
    Nikolai wrote:
    It's sure great, but the full version is kinda pricey. As Sebastian pointed out, you can get a free NASA World Wind app - an absolutely amazing tool, especially considering the price.

    HTH

    windows only? bah! my government is discriminating against my mac-ness lol3.gif

    "system Requirements: Windows 2000, XP Home, or XP Professional"

    sigh, guess i'll check it out on my pc laptop umph.gif
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  • JamieCJamieC Registered Users Posts: 154 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2005
    rainforest1155 wrote:
    Yeah, I also have seen this. It works great, but too bad it's limited to the US so far.
    The speed and handling (dragging the map!) is incredible for a web based service.
    And Canada... big country up here... surprised you missed it!

    ;-)

    Jamie
  • rainforest1155rainforest1155 Registered Users Posts: 4,566 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2005
    Nikolai wrote:
    For instance, check this view. There are 3 different quality regions: high, med and low res. My house is in the green one (med res), office is in gray one (hi-res). So I cannot show you my house:-(, not at this view (yet).
    You are right, I didn't pay that much attention to the details, but hey the service is brand new and I guess google will work on this. There's also WorldWind to fill these gaps, especially those around the world. I think someone even wrote a plugin for WorldWind to import google-maps-links. (or you just copy latitude and longitude to WW)
    andy wrote:
    windows only? bah! my government is discriminating against my mac-ness lol3.gif
    Yeah and that's the main reason I'll probably never switch to Mac or Linux&Co. I just love the big pool of freeware apps that often are Windows only.
    JamieC wrote:
    And Canada... big country up here... surprised you missed it!
    Shame over me rolleyes1.gif and thanks for pointing this out. I'll try to think in a broader view, but keep on correcting me if I do it again. :D

    Sebastian
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2005
    If you wait long enough...
    andy wrote:
    windows only? bah! my government is discriminating against my mac-ness lol3.gif

    "system Requirements: Windows 2000, XP Home, or XP Professional"

    sigh, guess i'll check it out on my pc laptop umph.gif
    .. they'll develop .NET support for mac (smth like Mono), and many of the new apps will run on them too.

    Otherwise, it's a pure shame that you can't see it on your 30" - it's a blast even on 20", on your 30" it would be like flying the f*ing plane..

    Cheers!1drink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • luckyrweluckyrwe Registered Users Posts: 952 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2005
    Why doesn't Apple tak to ICANN and try to get the top level domain of .mac created? Then you can live in a parallel universe. :D
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