Google Earth (1 Viewer)

[blackbunny]

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

you can view entire globe on your pc and zoom in to see individual houses. w00t i see my house ^_^

 

[go_swans]

how big is the file?

 

[blackbunny]

10 megs. I know its annoying they dont tell you.

 

[Rafy]

Yeah this is a great program. Its basically Google Maps packaged in a nice program with a great interface.


Btw, if your a dial-up user, forget about this.

It downloads and slowly renders the images of the area you are currently looking at, so ituses quite a bit of bandwidth. If your not on broadband it would be far too slow.

 

[Krangelus]

this is old, BUT GREAT

 

[RCMasterAA]

Yep, old but great. Only bad thing is everything north of Darling Harbour seems to have been forgotten and given a brief photographing much to my annoyance.

 

[mr_brightside]

Yep, old but great. Only bad thing is everything north of Darling Harbour seems to have been forgotten and given a brief photographing much to my annoyance.

yes i reckon ay...there is fuck all detail and it shits me....

oh well...ive found lotsa places...its cool

 

[Rafy]

Well everything to the north EAST of darling harbour. The stuff to the west is there.

 

[shortygb]

once again im just of of the detailed zoom area. it shows the west but not ALL of the west, i wonder why Sydney wasnt in detail.

 

[MedNez]

I'd say they haven't got all the full resolution maps at the moment, hence why they haven't incorporated them. It's only a matter of time.

 

[acmilan]

Has anyone tried NASA's world wind? I downloaded it at one stage but dont recall whether I actually used it or not.

 

[go_swans]

do they update it or is it live or just the same all the time?

 

[flamearrows]

whats the difference between keyhole, google earth and whirl wind

program wise, not costwise

Google bought Keyhole. So one is equal to the other in that case. No idea about whirlwind.

 

[acmilan]

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/download.html

For anyone interested in world wind. Its some 180 mb though

 

[fatmuscle]

moon.google.com !!! and zoom all the way in

 

[RCMasterAA]

I've tried Whirlwind. You can choose the type of satellite imagery you're viewing but it's very clunky and I occasionally found that the place I was zoomed over wouldn't sharpen up. After Google Earth I whole heartedly recommend it over Whirlwind.

 

[rithvikt]

google earth is cool stuff...i found my relatives house in USA and i havent even been there...*i see my house 2....* woow...what is technology getting to these days..

 

[Vangineer]

it has limited detail which makes it a shitty program
It covers Australia very well tho

 

[RCMasterAA]

Hornsby lies in the "we're too good to be refined by satellites" area.

 

[tempco]

check out area 51.