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| MrInvestor |
 Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 5:18 am Post subject: Google Earth - Very Cool! |
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Has anyone used this yet?
I've seen other sites with aerial/satelite photographs, but this one is BY FAR the best. Pretty much the entire earth is viewable.
My favorite thing is put my home address (I can see my house from here!) and my work and look at my horrible commute. It zooms out, flys over and zooms in on the other address. It really puts things in perspective! A friend of mine is a mountain climber and was mapping out climbing routes he's taken in Alaska and South America! Also I've found that the O'Hare terminal in Chicago is bigger than most airports entire runway system!  Anyway, if you like maps this is the king.
It's at http://earth.google.com/ Dial-uppers beware though it's a 10mb initial download and then streaming data transfer so you can move all over the place without load times. Works great on broadband though.
I'd be interested to know what you find! |
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| cwing |
| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 5:58 am Post subject: |
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| Looks pretty cool... I read about it on slashdot awhile ago but personally never tried it. |
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| junsta17 |
| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 6:35 am Post subject: |
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| I could see my house from here! |
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| freeye |
| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 6:54 am Post subject: Google Earth vs Mapquest. |
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i'm very curious to know if any of you think you will use google instead of mapquest for planning trips and getting directions etc.?
can we do a survey?
thanks!
freeye
Last edited by freeye on Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:08 am; edited 1 time in total |
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| MrInvestor |
| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 7:03 am Post subject: |
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| I haven't had too much luck with the directions part. I still use mapquest. I do check it out when I have time to get the general layout of a place I've never been before. |
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| cwing |
| Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:59 am Post subject: |
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| chahsiubow |
| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 4:41 am Post subject: |
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Cool... I can see my car that was parked outside my friend's house when they took the satellite image.  |
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| chahsiubow |
| Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2005 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| I can't help but notice that this could be very abusable for terrorist activities... or stalkers for that matter... |
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| stockguru |
| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, I agree, this is a really good program thing.
I can see my old house, and where I live now.
AND the Great Wall of China. =+[) |
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| cwing |
| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2005 5:37 am Post subject: |
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| pinwheel |
| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 8:07 am Post subject: |
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| Wow, hadn't checked this out yet but I will have to! I need to make maps for an upcoming event so maybe this will be a useful tool... |
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| investment |
| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:45 am Post subject: |
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It is really cool!!!!!!!!!
Like it so much!!!!!! |
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| 1(888)SNOWPLW |
| Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 3:05 pm Post subject: |
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there used to be that feature on mapquest a while ago.
Thanks for the infromation. |
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| Do5 |
| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 4:06 am Post subject: |
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Nice!
I notice some areas don't come in as clear as others, guess they are still working on it as its a beta...
I like it though, the tour was cool! |
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| vetelmo |
| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2005 10:06 am Post subject: |
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| I use Google Maps, love it! I was moving and I used them to see the satelite feature to see whats nearby (like i don't want to live near a school and saw a couple places had them very close and didnt bother to go see tem. Saved me a ton of time) |
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