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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)

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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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