Google Earth

Wigeon · **Posted:** Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:21 pm

I just found out about this cool 3D virtual globe by google at
[url]earth.google.com[/url]

It's really cool. It shows mountains and building and sattelite images of at least 15 meters per pixel. You need to download it thouh and you need a lot of patience if using dialup.

Tompkins · **Joined:** Thu Aug 26, 2004 1:37 pm **Posts:** 1391

That is cool! I even found my house!

Bugkiss · **Joined:** Mon Aug 29, 2005 4:05 pm **Posts:** 2226

I can't look at it, because of what happened last time I downloaded something ( virus, virus, virus, virus, virus, virus, virus.... ).

porplemontage · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:25 am

Bugsprite10 wrote:

I can't look at it, because of what happened last time I downloaded something ( virus, virus, virus, virus, virus, virus, virus.... ).

Surely you can trust Google.

Ju Ju Master · **Joined:** Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:01 am **Posts:** 6245

Yeah, I found that a while ago, it's pretty cool. Google has once again amazed me.

ramrod · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2005 12:40 am

Ju Ju Master wrote:

Yeah, I found that a while ago, it's pretty cool. Google has once again amazed me.

Google never stops amazing people. Not until it takes control of Holland, and parts of Canada. Until then, they just keep making really cool stuff.

Acekirby · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:31 pm

Hey, that's pretty cool. Google's crazy. It keeps putting out amazing stuff like this.

Kiki · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:44 pm

ramrod wrote:

Ju Ju Master wrote:

Yeah, I found that a while ago, it's pretty cool. Google has once again amazed me.

Google never stops amazing people. Not until it takes control of Holland, and parts of Canada. Until then, they just keep making really cool stuff.

It's cool indeed.
There are some parts of Holland that you can see well. Try Rotterdam, Scheveningen and Den Haag.

DESTROY US ALL! · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:48 pm

I downloaded it a while ago. Quite a remarkable program. They don't seem to care much about Miamisburg, Ohio though. WE DO HAVE THE SECOND BIGGEST NATIVE AMERICAN BURIAL MOUND IN AMERICA!
*breathes heavily*
The 3-D buildings and terrain are simply dazzling. I just wish the pics were updated.

Mr.Bland · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:32 pm

I found out about that a while ago. It's better than the maps.google version

Choc-o-Lardiac Arrest · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:36 pm

hrmmmm.... lets see if we can find Area 51, someone check south of las vegas, someone check North of Las vegas, And Someone Check east, and i will check west. whoever finds it, check and see whats on the runway, there might be something there. okay? break!

The Japanese Geek · **Posted:** Tue Sep 27, 2005 11:37 pm

As the forum's resident Google fanboy, I got ahold of this the second it was released. I absolutley love it.

I love going into mountainous terrain and just flying through it.
Awexome.

DS_Kid · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 1:40 am

I haven't downloaded it yet, but my technology teacher at school was messing with it at the beginning of class once. I overheard one of the other teachers say that there's downloadable layers for updates on the map(like before Katrina, after Katrina). Also, he showed us the school on it, it hasn't been updated for a long time because construction hadn't begun on the school, yet.

Wigeon · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 2:27 am

DS_Kid wrote:

I haven't downloaded it yet, but my technology teacher at school was messing with it at the beginning of class once. I overheard one of the other teachers say that there's downloadable layers for updates on the map(like before Katrina, after Katrina). Also, he showed us the school on it, it hasn't been updated for a long time because construction hadn't begun on the school, yet.

Thre are some downloadable layers at the google earth community at http://bbs.keyhole.com

Jitka · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 3:04 am

I downloaded it, but it doesn't seem to work properly on my lappy.

I think the resolution is too small. Plus, I'm using a LOT of memory for mp3's.

But it's still pretty cool. They don't have my house, though.

Sterence · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 3:38 am

Yeah i hav google earth

ive got my house marked on it but javnt really worked out how to use it properly! :sad:

iKipapa · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 6:07 am

I'm downloading it right now.
I had heard f it awhile ago, but I was never sure what it was.
Sounds cool.

King Nintendoid · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:14 am

Google Earth is awesome, but I'd wish Google stopped pretending the world consists of the US and a few tiny spots of the rest of the world (the image within the Netherlands is Amsterdam, and it's not as detailed as that of, say, New York).

But very awesome.

Didymus · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:47 am

While I can't be certain, my guess is that Google doesn't own the satellites used to take the pictures. And if there aren't sufficient photos available, then of course the maps aren't going to be detailed enough.

King Nintendoid · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 1:51 pm

Google can own ANYTHING. Let them buy the sattelites

racerx_is_alive · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 9:33 pm

Didymus wrote:

While I can't be certain, my guess is that Google doesn't own the satellites used to take the pictures. And if there aren't sufficient photos available, then of course the maps aren't going to be detailed enough.

Digital Globe provides most of the pictures that are used in Google Earth (at least, the high res images). I'm not sure if you've gone pricing satellite imagery (kinda difficult, did it once last year) but 60cm imagery is 700-800 dollars per square kilometer. So they are only picking places where they think they will get the most bang for their buck.

On their bbs they have news that shows what areas they have high res imagery for, as well as how hi-res that imagery is. For example, Google's Mountain View campus is 1 in./ pixel.

homestarman17 · **Posted:** Wed Sep 28, 2005 10:59 pm

I've had this for about a month. It's pretty cool. My dad (who never goes on the computer) can look at it for hours at a time.

ModestlyHotGirl · **Posted:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 5:35 pm

homestarman17 wrote:

My dad (who never goes on the computer) can look at it for hours at a time.

Weird! My dad showed it to me a couple of months or so ago and he does the same thing! :mrgreen:

Snailmail · **Posted:** Thu Sep 29, 2005 10:55 pm

I was gonna make a topic about this! Well, ABP, so I can't. Well, anyway, I have google earth. But google earth also means you can never give your IP adress. And it's not as much virtual as live.

Speckeldorf · **Posted:** Sun Oct 02, 2005 4:48 pm

Is that free now? Cause I downloaded Keyhole that one time and it was shareware. I like all the 3D-ness of it all.

Exhibit A · **Posted:** Sat Oct 15, 2005 6:06 am

Someone on another forum just pointed out something very odd over Florida.

Go to coordinates:
26 44 56.04 N 80 04 28.35 W

:eek:

Anyone know what it might be?

ramrod · **Posted:** Sat Oct 15, 2005 6:08 am

Man, what the heck is that X-ibit Alpha?

iKipapa · **Posted:** Sat Oct 15, 2005 6:21 am

That's really weird. I'm trying to think of all the possible things it could be.
A cloud.

ramrod · **Posted:** Sat Oct 15, 2005 6:25 am

iKipapa wrote:

That's really weird. I'm trying to think of all the possible things it could be.
A cloud.

It almost looks like that Golf Ball thing at Disney Land.

iKipapa · **Posted:** Sat Oct 15, 2005 6:28 am

No, I figured it out.
It's my brain. I left it in Florida a coupla years ago.

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