MERGED--> Google Earth

[jesseu2]

Google Earth

you guys gotta check this out! this is better than google maps in many ways!!!! i'm a geography major an just love this program, lets you find your home address or any place an zoom in on images from satelite radar enhanced with street info, 3D buildings, can do driving directions too an view a 'tour' of your route..u can save, print, email the map with any thing on it like schools, census, train stations, restaurants, etc ,

free download..

http://earth.google.com/

 

[lyra14]

Very cool program. I enjoy using it to "visit" far off and exotic locales.

Andrew

 

[Chizip]

Very cool program. I enjoy using it to "visit" far off and exotic locales.

Andrew

nude beaches?

 

[Dulce de Leche]

google earth

 

[joyfulgirl]

Ok, it kinda freaks me out.

 

[wizard2c]

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Thanks but not yet for macs.......Steve Jobs where are ya?

But I do have On-Star and a navigational system in my car.

Looks great though.

 

[meegannie]

Ok, it kinda freaks me out.

Me too.

 

[WildHoneyAlways]

Um, yeah, a little creepy. The picture of my house is at least a few years old though. It shows a pool in my backyard and we took it down at least 3 years ago.

 

[unosdostres14]

Google Earth is the best thing since sliced bread.


NO....BIGGER!




Google Earth is the best thing since..........Google maps!

 

[00Kevin]

I think it's great, but i don't think it's been updated in a couple of years too. Some renovation to u.s. cellular field is not depicted.(it still looks like flying saucer)

 

[Dismantled]

YES!!! I have been addicted to this for 2 weeks now

 

[sulawesigirl4]

betcha it can't find MY address.

 

[MumblingBono]

Very cool program. Although, my neighborhood is not detailed.

 

[kobayashi]

i love that program. i mapped my carribean cruise.

 

[nbcrusader]

The graphics are amazing, especially the tilt function to give a "3D" effect.

 

[Dismantled]

The graphics are amazing, especially the tilt function to give a "3D" effect.

yes if you use the tilt over Mt. Everest and Mount Saint Helens I cannot stop playing with this thing!

 

[Angela Harlem]

this thing is brilliant. i love it. or at least i did love it until a few weeks ago i played with it and looked up china and couldn't the great wall and got frustrated.

 

[discothequeLP]

this thing is brilliant. i love it. or at least i did love it until a few weeks ago i played with it and looked up china and couldn't the great wall and got frustrated.

my friend and i were having a contest over the phone to see who could find different landmarks first . . . we coulnd't find the Great Wall either.

 

[gareth brown]

Hello, thread. Welcome to two-three months ago!

I've been using this thing for a while but kind of stopped in a sulk since my city comes up as a crap blurred image!

 

[zwervers2]

I LOVE Google earth.

I located my girl in Italy!! well at least the building she stays in!

very cool indeed

 

[Dismantled]

my friend and i were having a contest over the phone to see who could find different landmarks first . . . we coulnd't find the Great Wall either.

I was like that with Mt. Everest...FINALLY I found it but I had to look at the elevation of every Mtn between China and India until I found on that said 28,000 feet then the name popped up

*goes to try to find great wall

 

[Dismantled]

I cannot find the great wall either and I was scanning everywhere.....this can only mean one thing...the great wall doesn't exist its just a lie

 

[jesseu2]

i found where its supposed to be but can't see it..... i'll show you where to look...first, maje sure you have 'keyhole community BBS' checked under layers then when you zoom in on the Po Hai (body of water north of yellow sea but connected to it too) an saw this...

 

[ruffian]

Hi Jesse! It's a little weird not seeing you every other day at a show in Europe...see you in the fall, I'm sure...

and yes, I love Google Earth.

 

[meegannie]

I can't see any faces on Mt. Rushmore.

 

[RedRocksU2]

.....I wanted to revive this thread, this program is great...check it out!

 

[Earnie Shavers]

The potential for it is huge. Especially when you think about how it will eventually link up with other Google services, or how whole communities can be built around it. I've heard people talking about building a system over the top of it, you'll be able to click on a city or even a neighbourhood within a city - get the news for the day from there, see a list of people from there online to chat, see listings of what is going on there, history of the place, 'guided' tours etc. Added to that you could click and get a listing of people with a little profile on them, if you find someone who's life you think sounds interesting or maybe has a similar 'biography' or interests to you, but happens to live in China, click and get a little video diary or tour of their favourite restaurants, their school, a little snapshot of life in some far away village from the perspective of someone not too different to you.

Our world is becomming an interesting place. While it seems there's a whole generation there who are wanting to move the world further apart, there's also a generation there who are honestly going to feel like a person on the other side of the world is as close as the person down the street.

 

[briarrose]

I tried to find Bono's house.

 

[Mr. BAW]

Wanna know how dangerous that site is???? I ran several local West Coast locations and all of the images remained blurred...but when I ran the White House, Pentagon, The Capital....you could see everything, every road, every exit, every ingree/egress to the area....I don't think the Taliban or other State's enemy knows of Google-Earth.....

 

[GibsonGirl]

I tried to find Bono's house.