Google Earth!
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From: Grande Prairie, AB
Google Earth!
Alright, Anybody else find themselves playing with this for hours?
It is wild,you can zoom right in and everything
I find it quite fascinating and a good time killer as well.
I wonder how often its updated?
Im looking at Austin right now (looks hot)
It is wild,you can zoom right in and everything
I find it quite fascinating and a good time killer as well.
I wonder how often its updated?
Im looking at Austin right now (looks hot)
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From: Empire of New Jersey
Yeah, that and google maps are awesome. Especially since they added the 'hybird' feature that layers the map on top of the satelite imagery. I used to need an outragiously expensive mapping program to do that.
AND it lets you easily pan across the map a whole lot easier
AND it lets you easily pan across the map a whole lot easier
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It is fun to look around with, but boy does it soak up time. Go to Norfolk Naval Yard you can see planes and helos on deck of carriers. Kind of makes you wonder if they release this to the public what better stuff does the government have?
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i *might* know a person who *might* work for a LARGE government entity....he says its AMAZING what technology we *might* have. i'd say more, but gotta protect them and myself....lets just say, in the movie "Behind enemy lines" where they are following him with infared sattelites, its better than that.
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Crazy stuff eh,
I just so happened to watch behind enemy lines the other night, closed my eyes and picked one out of my collection, and that was the one.
I just so happened to watch behind enemy lines the other night, closed my eyes and picked one out of my collection, and that was the one.
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Holy cow! How many times is this Google Earth thing going to come up. Im a member of A LOT of forums, and there is a huge craze going on with it. On one forum, there were 3 threads started in the same month about it.
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Originally Posted by Casey
Try moon.google.com. They have each Apollo landing site marked.
Zoom all the way in to see the incrdible detail!
Zoom all the way in to see the incrdible detail!
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From: Tucson Az
Google World is verry neat, I showed this to my granpa though, and zoomed in on his 2nd house in mexico.. he was pretty impressed.
There is also Nasa World wind.. I similar larger program that does better in some areas and worse in others.. Has some neat features though.. not as good at finding specific places around the world
It is able to overlay different stelites over the terrain.. includuging the usgs topo map
There is also Nasa World wind.. I similar larger program that does better in some areas and worse in others.. Has some neat features though.. not as good at finding specific places around the world
It is able to overlay different stelites over the terrain.. includuging the usgs topo map
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