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― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

so you need broadband and Windows 2000 at least, that's me out then

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

that is utterly amazing and a little scary.

― president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

Holy crap they have fast servers.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

It is absolutely fantastic and will be even more fucking freakish when they've fully 3d mapped every city and town. And then in ten years when it's LIVE and REAL TIME and you can zoom in on yourself that'll be just head-explodingly great.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

you should all give me your addresses so i can look you up.

― president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

how large is this download?

― jermaine, at work, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 12:06 (twenty years ago)

great news for burglars and bombers innit?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

I had problems opening it in DivX and OpenGL isn't as fast. Any suggestions?

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

Blimey that's impressive. And I need a new monitor.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I want it! But probably no way I could install it on my work machine...

― MIS Information (kate), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 12:20 (twenty years ago)

This thing blows my tiny, tiny mind.

― astropatty (adr), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

Can't stop playing with this now. Now drooling over the thought of actual 3D representation of buildings etc. (The way the buildings are mapped in Manhattan has given me a massive headache).

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

awesome. google is going to rule us all, i'm already a slave to maps and sattelite.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

bah the building i'm sitting in isn't there, pics are before they built it by the looks of things...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

in all the addresses i've tried so far, the x-marks-the-spot has been a tiny bit off. not that it matters.

― president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 12:44 (twenty years ago)

stevem: have you tried turning on "buildings"?

also: holy living fuck.

― jermaine at work, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

holy shit. for the first time in my life I'm pissed that I'm on a Mac.

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

um, the big buildings next to us are visible, but we're not, but then 6 months ago this was a building site, as shown...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

It's gobsmacking. I just whooshed from my house to where Pam lived in DC in about 5 seconds, like the Tomorrow People.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

ow, two mac no pc household here.

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

some interesting applications of google earth here: http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

ow, two mac no pc household here.

ditto. (well: three if the old 5300 counts. although stet is using it at the moment.) hot damn, this looks rocking. and ooh, hurrah, it says:

Apple Macintosh computers are not supported at this time (but we are working on it).

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

have you tried turning on "buildings"?

i didn't give it enough time before but yeh this is what I wanted. Now they just need the right colours, textures and detail for the buildings...

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

I HATE MAC

― Jon, remind me again why you haven't drowned in your own vomit (ex machina), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

i am looking forward to getting home and trying this out.

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Wow this thing is great! Melbourne is strangely unscanned - even half the CBD isnt included, but the St Kilda shoreline is there - so I couldnt see my house. But! Zoomed in on Canberra, where I'm from, and I could see my parents house! I could tell which one was theirs cos they're the only one in their street with an orange gravel front yard instead of green grass hehe. Could see my old school and all, its SO strange. We've spent the last hour zooming about, looking for Universal Studios (found that), Area 51 (where the fuck is it? Found Roswell but umm, yeah) and North Korea (pyongyanag there clearly, suprisingly).

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

Area 51 (where the fuck is it? Found Roswell but umm, yeah)

dunno but some fake crop circles come up in the search!

― president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

Nothing happened :(

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Ah, now it works!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

I saw some BIZARRE circly things just out of Melbourne I couldnt explain. I love this thing.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

this pwns!

― g-kit_at_home, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

where are there crop circles?!?!

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

omfg
my old house:

http://photos22.flickr.com/25728683_fbf6d9452e.jpg

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

Are they allowing downloads again? I installed it here at work awhile ago but couldn't install it at home as they temporarily suspended new downloads.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

i dont understand why i can get hat close and good resolution in moscow, of all places, and yet cant get my own street in leeds in focus?

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

spencerchow (10:31:30 AM): this is the greatest achievement of mankind
spencerchow (10:31:34 AM): it's over
spencerchow (10:31:44 AM): everything from here on out is "post-google-earth"
spencerchow (10:31:51 AM): year 0
spencerchow (10:31:53 AM): PGE

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

Now for GoogleStreet and finally Snow Crash will have come true.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

eh, the elevation scale doesn't feel quite right. the buildings thing is neat but only works for a few, select metro areas. (of course.)

definitely rad. i want it integrated into my desktop. with real time mass transit simulations. "oh shit, the bus is almost at the corner... must run now."

it'd be nice if it had more res and real time updates. what nascar fan wouldn't want to watch the daytona from space?
m.

― msp (mspa), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Get in my phone!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

ha, Spencer, dude, were you aim chatting with yourself? :)

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

I like the way Acton is all grey and murky, but Ealing and beyond goes all brown, green and blurry.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

GoogleSleep

GoogleSocialSkills

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

Minneapolis even includes the skyways!

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

The Gateway Arch seems to have been designed by Stanley Kubrick, tho'.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

"the final moments of princess diana"!!!

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

manhattan: "dining" on Vs. "dining" off

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

ha, Spencer, dude, were you aim chatting with yourself? :)

Haha, I was so excited that my friend didn't have time to respond!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

The Gateway Arch seems to have been designed by Stanley Kubrick, tho'.

I'm glad someone else noticed this!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

I was hoping that I could fly through it, teeny!

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

The next killer app for this is allowing people to document their own neighborhood features and share them with friends. Google should have already integrated this across Maps and Blogger but that's their own oversight I suppose. How to turn it into more than a gee-whiz is tricky. It's tricky tricky tricky tricky tricky.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

oh you can do that! a friend of mine sent me a layer with all of his places, I haven't played with it yet.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

he also emailed me this, I haven't played with these either:

In the last few days, a few dynamic data layers have been added.
These are realtime streams of real data that can be added as a layer
to Google Earth. The two coolest ones are:
http://cimms.ou.edu/~smith/wdssii/refqc.kmz
and
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php?Number=39752

The first one is realtime Doppler radar data. It autoupdates every
two minutes. The data is less than a few minutes old. You can get
realtime Doppler data right on your computer, zooming all the way down
to your house. We tried it a few minutes ago -- although no rain was
showing up on the Weather.com page, there was in fact a small rain
cell hovering over our neighborhood. Sure enough, it rained outside
for a few minutes and then stopped. So now you can get weather data
that's accurate to the minute and precise right down to your street.

The second one is realtime cloud data. It only updates every three
hours, but you can still get a picture of where large systems are and
see where the clouds are. It doesn't have nearly the resolution that
the Doppler one does, but it's close.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

The Capitol building and around is at a very low resolution.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

Can you import ArcView GIS data?

― Jon, remind me again why you haven't drowned in your own vomit (ex machina), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

looks like you need the premium version for gis.

my friend said he got those links from here:
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php/Cat/0

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

this completely blew my mind. Imagine showing this to someone even 5 years ago? The BBS layer eats up hours of my time. Also the terrain option is fucking crazy, esp through the grand canyon and parts of the alps.

― Elliot (Elliot), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

Spencer the capitol building issue has been the case since they added the satellite photos to maps.google.com! Also look up around the NAval Observatory area, north of Georgetown and Glover Park. That's Cheney's bunker.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

I just love the simplest things, like turning on "streets" and seeing street names swim up out of the images.

Its like SimCity4 come to glorious life, and as someone who plays that a lot, this will be an invaluable tool for me, as I can look at real life city layouts for ideas.

How recent would the sat data be, and how often updated? Would that depend on each country's own databanks or something? (this is why I was suprised canberra and its surrounding towns were all there but a LOT of Melbourne was only in very low res)

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 14 July 2005 00:42 (twenty years ago)

I keep thinking somebody should a driving game mod for this.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 14 July 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

I was going to make this thread a few days ago, but had some jealous-paranoid idea that you would all suck the bandwidth away from me before I had a chance to play with it.

The weather patch teeny links to completes the life-affirming awesomeness of this.

― Richard K (Richard K), Thursday, 14 July 2005 01:09 (twenty years ago)

you can see my house! how freaky. in a cool way.

― gem (trisk), Thursday, 14 July 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

my home town is a purple blur while my search for 'frankfurt' returned no results. fuck this thing

― Marco Salvetti - world moustache champion (moustache), Thursday, 14 July 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

It's weird how every building in Century City 2 stories and over has a 3D version!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 14 July 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

It's also much faster on my work network.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 14 July 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

T1 vs. Cable

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 14 July 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

I found a huge concrete square block hovering above the Mississippi River in Memphis. I don't know if it's supposed to be the Pyramid or the Jeff Buckley Floating Tomb of Remembrence.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 14 July 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)

i found my house, this thing is amazing

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 14 July 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

I keep thinking somebody should a driving game mod for this.

Grand Theft Auto: Cedar Rapids

― president carter loves repetition (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 14 July 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

I keep thinking somebody should a driving game mod for this.

Anyone ever play Streets of SimCity?

― Jon, remind me again why you haven't drowned in your own vomit (ex machina), Thursday, 14 July 2005 03:49 (twenty years ago)

This program is so cool. So wonderfully cool.

http://deanna.ladyinterference.com/ilx/1sthouse.jpg

I tried to box off the specific house here. Anyway. This is actually the very first house I ever lived in! :)

― The Kind and Benevolent Oracle of Dee (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 14 July 2005 06:05 (twenty years ago)

my home town is a purple blur while my search for 'frankfurt' returned no results. fuck this thing

The servers are bring constantly hammered, if you get this, be patient and wait for a minute or so and you should get a better image.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 14 July 2005 11:59 (twenty years ago)

There is a link on the site that explains what areas have the full hi-res coverage, and it isnt everywhere. A lot of western europe hasnt been done, and places like india and africa only have sat imagery and not the hires zooms. Half the Melbourne CBD is missing for some weird reason (why do a detailled scan of a big city and miss big chunks?)

It is great fun tho.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 14 July 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

fun

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 14 July 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

Half the Melbourne CBD is missing for some weird reason

Try it again. I got the same problem when looking at parts of Europe, but eventually the images came.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 14 July 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

whats that weird thing in the northern baltic?

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 14 July 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

you?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

Incidentally, if you keep zooming in from the start without moving in any other direction you end up in Lawrence, just west of Kansas City.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

whats that weird thing in the northern baltic?

Strange grey block just on the cusp of the Danzig Bay too.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

its in the gulf of bothnia, adjacent to the finnish coast, and is 100+ miles long, pointing due north

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Holy sh-
This thread has been locked by authorities

― Baaderonixx chez les Belges (Fabfunk), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Are there any other weird structures?

― Jon, remind me again why you haven't drowned in your own vomit (ex machina), Thursday, 14 July 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

That thing looks like a massive line of white powder!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

isn't it just cloud?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

Why is the entire state of Indiana gray?

And that thing in the Baltic is obviously an alien landing strip.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

What's the street value of that cloud???

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 14 July 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, WTF kind of cloud is that??

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Haha, one of the few 3rd world place in very high detail?.... Baghdad.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 15 July 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

Try it again. I got the same problem when looking at parts of Europe, but eventually the images came.

Oh no, I know it takes a while for the resolution to come good, but there are only partial areas covered by the full,

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 15 July 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

err wtf? Let me try that again:

Oh no, I know it takes a while for the resolution to come good, but there are only partial areas covered by the full, less than 1m hires scans (usually done from plane flyovers). These are the ones you can "see your house" from, and Melbourne only has a few patches of them - bafflingly, theyve a patch that covers half the CBD right down the middle, so you cant see the most obvious structures you'd want to like Flinders st station or the arts centre spire :(

I guess soon enough more detailled scans will get added though. My suburb's also only in the low res scan area.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 15 July 2005 05:06 (twenty years ago)

http://www.geobloggers.com/imgs/buttonGoogleEarth.png

― the urban heat island effect (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 15 July 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

yeah the low res high res thing is kinda funny. the town where i grew up (admittedly quite small and of little or no global note but beautiful nonetheless) is low res, but the tiny little community where my family's holiday house is located is high res.

i love that you can zoom into the coastline of WA (and the rest of australia), i forget how beautiful it is from the air, especially up north where the red earth comes so close to the aqua coastal shelf (like around the exmouth gulf).

― gem (trisk), Friday, 15 July 2005 05:32 (twenty years ago)

there's some great detail on Sydney, the freight tanks in the harbour bay for example.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 15 July 2005 09:08 (twenty years ago)

http://moon.google.com/

(don't zoom in too close though)

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 08:21 (twenty years ago)

hmm, emmental...

― Baaderonixx cancels each other out (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 20 July 2005 08:24 (twenty years ago)

i was searching the web for latitude/longitudes of interesting places on earth, to view on Gearth... and found this forum... hit me up on AIM at 'unbelievableband' if you have Gearth and wanna trade places... and I don't mean you can move into my mom's house. Ok, im sure that went over most people's heads.

― what the hell is this?, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:05 (twenty years ago)

Is this another Gareth stalker?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:07 (twenty years ago)

deadite alright: So, can i move in to your mom's house
unbelievableband: well, you caught me at a bad time
unbelievableband: HAHAHA
unbelievableband: damn
unbelievableband: you're on that forum
deadite alright: A PROMISE IS A PROMISE
unbelievableband: i didnt think it had that many people on that forum
deadite alright: haha
unbelievableband: or atleast not enough to see my post five seconds ago
deadite alright: I see every post five seconds ago
deadite alright: i'm the all seeing boarder
unbelievableband: wow, and i thought i was lacking a life
unbelievableband: hahaha
unbelievableband: JK

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

unbelievableband: but look dude, my gf is pissed and wants me in bed
deadite alright: wow!
unbelievableband: haha
deadite alright: your girlfriend is pissing in your bed?
deadite alright: dude, don't stand for that

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043

put this in. its googles own campus, resolution is the best ive seen so far

― charltonlido (gareth), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

incredible!

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

They haven't quite finalized the pics for North Little Rock, Arkansas, yet, but some of you will probably get a big kick out of this:

http://maps.a9.com/

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

I can make out some of the car make/models in that google campus pic!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

And you can see the google logo on the bottom of their swimming pool! Phwoar.

I have to keep stopping myself from loading up google earth, cos whenever I do, I lose two hours of my life.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

On the south part of the parking lot near the checkered driveway, you can make out a blue VW Beetle!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

License plate # CA 1FGPO99!!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

(kidding on that last part)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

Ooh, ooh, ooh!

The OS X beta has leaked: http://tinyurl.com/8zvlv

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Friday, 9 December 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Awesome!

― naus (Robert T), Saturday, 10 December 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

It looks kind of ugly, but I don't care! It runs really well, and I can finally shut down my Windows machine forever!

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 10 December 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

Won't run for me, but I'm using 10.3.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 10 December 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)

That's bitterly cruel, since it looks like it was built to run on 10.2..

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Saturday, 10 December 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

That's what I thought when I saw the Preferences tabs.

― naus (Robert T), Saturday, 10 December 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

try this one, it's not a .dmg

http://s35.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3P9LC8A0UKIVG2BN6W655AZMKZ

― naus (Robert T), Saturday, 10 December 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

I thought satelites could only take pictures straight down, but with many (most?) buildings, it's possible to view the sides of them. Check out the Eiffel Tower f'rinstance. Aircraft fly-by pics?

― Sasha (sgh), Saturday, 10 December 2005 12:13 (twenty years ago)

Satellites take picture straight down but they take very large areas in one go. Whiolst what is immediately below them is stratight down what is off to one side will be tilted at an angle due to the curvature of the eart and see from an angle.

― Ed (dali), Saturday, 10 December 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

Dunno if it's the same one as above, but I found this one which is working fine on 10.4.3.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

what a nice surprise. i was going to append a bitter "not mac friendly" comment. d/l ing now

― Mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

I finally downloaded google earth, and have been playing with it for the better part of the day. One thing I noticed about this, is the inconsistencies with the satellite photos meshing with other photos. Meaning, I've seen examples of very poor overlays with the photos (dots & lines). Of course, I wasn't expecting it to be top notch -- not even for the entire U.S. There are some regions that cover many miles of land area that are well projected. A comprehensive map projection of the entire U.S. would be fantastic. Although it would probably take YEARS for GIS techs to make this happen. Overall, I think it's quite handy and it could be the start of something great for the future.

― van igloo (van smack), Sunday, 22 January 2006 03:19 (twenty years ago)

This is the pure hottness, and I am happy that the Mac version exists finally.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 22 January 2006 05:15 (twenty years ago)

I am such a sucker for the 3D buildings layer. It's really kind of sad.

― naus (Robert T), Sunday, 22 January 2006 05:43 (twenty years ago)

Google Earth menaced by WW2 bomber

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 22 January 2006 11:19 (twenty years ago)

http://local.live.com

― calderdale in the 70s (gareth), Sunday, 22 January 2006 15:56 (twenty years ago)

six months pass...

Those crazy Chinese.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 24 July 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

That's incredible! What could they possibly be playing at?

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 24 July 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

To quote JW, "HI I READ BLOGS TOO"

It's a scale model of a disputed area of the Sino-Indian border. Probably used for training helicopter pilots.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 24 July 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

Well, uh, yeah. I read the rest of the article Alba linked to. So I knew that much. I just meant that that explanation doesn't quite convince me. or at least, if it's right, then that's still insane.

― JimD (JimD), Monday, 24 July 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

local.live.com have a new, front view street system, only for seattle and sf so far. seems good, not sure what the silly car graphics are for though

http://preview.local.live.com/

― `·.¸☆☆¸.·´ (688), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

ooo...i like that!~

― sunny successor (katharine), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

fucking hell this is amazing!!!!!11!!!!!1!!!

― the classic sounds of the seventh of january 1998 (Enrique), Sunday, 1 October 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

Explorers!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

Lookit I found!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Pieter_Brueghel_de_Oude_-_De_val_van_Icarus.jpg/800px-Pieter_Brueghel_de_Oude_-_De_val_van_Icarus.jpg

― M. V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

How annoying. I know this is a well-known story/article technique, but meh anyway.

Intro: that exciting story about a burning ship off Iceland!
Second part: something else
Third part: a bit more about that ship off Iceland! Wooo!
Fourth part: something else
Fifth part: that ship off Iceland! Burning! Smoke! More info!
Sixth part: something else
Seventh part: conclusion of that burning ship off Iceland story!
End: something else!

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:58 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

Google Sky:
http://virtual.haru.gs/blogup/src/ge0211.jpg

http://earth.google.com/sky/skyedu.html

― The Macallan 18 Year, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

eh, it's no Celestia.

― ledge, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

I'm currently enthralled by this set of placemarks for google earth of North Korea.

The hillside propaganda is especially O_o

― en i see kay, Saturday, 17 November 2007 06:03 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/google_maps_typography.jpg

― tuppence b. bag (roxymuzak), Sunday, 26 April 2009 00:56 (sixteen years ago)

two months pass...

Was just coming here to post the Slovenian version of that

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/9681/ishackimagep.jpg

― Alba, Tuesday, 30 June 2009 07:38 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

Best. Google Earth. Mashup. Ever. Google road trip

Make sure you have the Google Earth browser plug-in installed before driving.

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 02:55 (fourteen years ago)

whoah. cool.

― Nhex, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 04:24 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

my god

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Douyfa7l8

― lag∞n, Thursday, 7 June 2012 12:37 (thirteen years ago)

three months pass...

http://192.20.225.36/tts/speech/34b3dd34ccaae9a5b64acef685467e12.wav

may be nsfw

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Friday, 14 September 2012 19:27 (thirteen years ago)

http://192.20.225.36/tts/speech/9c00173ca2ea692c1d6893bef1c9a6f2.wav

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Friday, 14 September 2012 19:29 (thirteen years ago)

"s i am tempted to create yet another account just to duplicate that list of people to follow. makes me wonder what other instances exist where gene simmons and paul ryan are in the same pool (safe in the fear that the number would be far higher than i would ever be comfortable with)"

― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Friday, 14 September 2012 20:43 (thirteen years ago)

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