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stan
Gay Rights Activist
Joined: 07 Apr 2004
Posts: 1268
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Sat Sep 24, 2005 4:53 am |
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http://earth.google.com/
anyone had a play with this?? fucking mental!!! "get google earth" and find your house...
not in real-time, but impressive non the less |
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Chris H
Forum Moderator
Joined: 02 Mar 2004
Posts: 19978
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Sat Sep 24, 2005 7:17 am |
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only works in certain areas though, but yes its funky.
It fucked my pc up though so I removed it. |
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FincH
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Joined: 05 Jan 2005
Posts: 569
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Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:46 pm |
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Aye, it is amazing.
I impressed my nan by zooming as far out as possible and then clicking on the Bookmark for her house 
She was rather amazed. |
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Stephen
Level 8 User
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
Posts: 278
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Sat Sep 24, 2005 12:54 pm |
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NASA has a program like this called World Wind, it also shows the world at night and some animations too.
There are a range of possible layers to view, one of which (the main one) can be tilted to show a 3D view of the landscape.
None the less the ability too see things in such detail from space is amazing.
The question all this raises is if this level of detail is available in the public domain what on earth does the millitary have? |
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Roger Red Hat
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Joined: 13 Oct 2004
Posts: 4722
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Sat Sep 24, 2005 1:07 pm |
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bombs...
and lots of them
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mals
Self Proclaimed Comic Genius
Joined: 04 Jul 2004
Posts: 3482
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Sat Sep 24, 2005 1:12 pm |
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william
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Joined: 25 Nov 2004
Posts: 350
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Mon Sep 26, 2005 10:29 am |
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similar program called Earth Browser (go: cnet download website). its like 4mb to download, then to update it, u download a file about 260k which in turn updates the image on your screen.
boss showed me the other day and you can see cloud formations, fault lines etc etc. Hurricane Rita shows up rather well  |
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Roger Red Hat
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Joined: 13 Oct 2004
Posts: 4722
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Mon Sep 26, 2005 10:30 am |
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think ill have a go at that! |
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Roger Red Hat
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Joined: 13 Oct 2004
Posts: 4722
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Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:41 am |
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dont do what google earth dose tho... |
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A14LN C
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Joined: 15 Oct 2004
Posts: 1139
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Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:57 am |
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just did it's not that gr8 but then again nor is my cmptr  |
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