Google Earth - aerial photos of the whole world!

[69_se_ron]

found a terrific free program on Google's homepage: Google Earth.  

It's aerial photography of the whole world, with most cities having fantastic resolution...you can even see people in some of the coverage.

It also includes a database of parks, waterways, hotels, hospitals, you name it.   You can search by city, address, zip code; pretty neat stuff.

P.S. VainGlory: check out the images of Paris, you can zoom in so close that the Eiffel Tower takes up the whole screen!

[dodgecharger-fan]

That's the keyhole software. I guess google bought them??

It's neat stuff. If it stays free and without watermarks it will come in handy for wireless site surveys.

[Silver R/T]

ya its cool, it doesnt work on Xp though, not for me anyways

[Johnny SixPack]

ya its cool, it doesnt work on Xp though, not for me anyways

Uh, works fer me, dude.  

Thanks for the heads up, Ron!

Man, you could spend hours checking out the info and not even scratch the surface.  


Johnny

[69_se_ron]

You're welcome, Johnny!

I've had a lot of fun with it, finding landmark places all over the world, pyramids at Giza, Cape Canaveral, Mount Everest, Manhattan Island, South Beach.  Looks like the upgrade package is interactive with GPS, too.

Good stuff for the kid's geography classes, huh?

[Troy]

If you can't get it to work try reading this:
http://earth.google.com/faq.html

Troy

[Telvis]

It's not working right for me. The images are blurry. Like when you zoom in too far on a poor quality image. I tried everything. Couldn't get it to work.   

[Johnny SixPack]

It's not working right for me. The images are blurry. Like when you zoom in too far on a poor quality image. I tried everything. Couldn't get it to work.   

Telvis, it seems like there's definitely spots where there's not as much info availble.

Unfortunately my town is in one of those spots, but much of the surrounding area is well defined and highly detailed.

Ron, yeah, I've started looking for places like that now.

Man, kids have got a lot of cool tools available today.

I was happy when the teacher broke out the overhead projector.   

Now there's power-point presentations.  


Johnny

[Telvis]

Yep...I though it was cool to have a spirograph!! My son has a PSP game system....he's got it made.

[Drache]

Is that the one where you could type in someone's home address and see a picture of their house?

[69_se_ron]

That's it, Drache.  There are a couple of others, Terraserver and AerialAtlas, but this one from Google just blows the others away.  Get into and check it out, you'll be amazed.

[Vainglory, Esq.]

This is crazy cool!   I can zoom right in on where I am, which is 48* 52' 04.86" N, and 2* 19' 32.50" E, right in the center of Paris.   You can see Madeleine just northwest, Place Vendome to the east, Tuileries to the South and Place de la Concorde next to it, and the Louvre just to the east of them.   Unbelievable!

[Drache]

anyone know how big that download is? I started but on my dialup I gave up after 30 minutes 

[CFMopar]

Works for me on xp too. Ive had it for the past week its pretty cool. Someone try looking up area 51 

[Bluebeast]

IS this basically the same thing as when I type in www.google.maps.com and am able to type in an address and see it in satellite form? Or does the google earth get even closer than the google map address allow you too?

[golden73]

That is pretty cool. It would be awesome if it showed absolutely everywhere though.

I wanted to see my house but it was just a big green patch instead of the actual picture

[RECHRGD]

I gave up on the download.  With my sizzling 24.0 Kpbs dial-up speed it never would have worked well anyway.  I'm going to have to go with a satillite system.  Living out in the boonies has it's disadvantages.

[Drache]

I gave up on the download.   With my sizzling 24.0 Kpbs dial-up speed it never would have worked well anyway.   I'm going to have to go with a satillite system.   Living out in the boonies has it's disadvantages.

I've got the same problem! I live about 2 hours from the closest town... I feel lucky to have a bloody telephone!

[Johnny SixPack]

This is crazy cool!   I can zoom right in on where I am, which is 48* 52' 04.86" N, and 2* 19' 32.50" E, right in the center of Paris.   You can see Madeleine just northwest, Place Vendome to the east, Tuileries to the South and Place de la Concorde next to it, and the Louvre just to the east of them.   Unbelievable!

Vain, great blog, man!

Spent some time going through it, and wow!

Awesome read and pix!


Johnny

[Johnny SixPack]

Works for me on xp too. Ive had it for the past week its pretty cool. Someone try looking up area 51  

Start here, TM: 37.363237, -116.827273

Lots of interesting stuff to be found if you scan around the immediate area.  


Johnny

[Johnny SixPack]

Might this be the landing strip?  

37.7943949479 -116.767339458

Very interesting!


Johnny

[Vainglory, Esq.]

This is crazy cool!   I can zoom right in on where I am, which is 48* 52' 04.86" N, and 2* 19' 32.50" E, right in the center of Paris.   You can see Madeleine just northwest, Place Vendome to the east, Tuileries to the South and Place de la Concorde next to it, and the Louvre just to the east of them.   Unbelievable!

Vain, great blog, man!

Spent some time going through it, and wow!

Awesome read and pix!


Johnny

Why thank you, monseiur.

[Charger4404spd]

Cool sight Ron. I spent a couple hours playing with that. Too bad the entire globe isnt high resolution. Go to New York, you can see where the Twin Towers were. The shot looks like they had about finished clean up.

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

Cool sight Ron. I spent a couple hours playing with that. Too bad the entire globe isnt high resolution. Go to New York, you can see where the Twin Towers were. The shot looks like they had about finished clean up.

I estimate most of those pics in the NY city area to be around mid 2003 due to certain houses in my area not being built yet......

[Charge It!]

Very cool site. Working fine with XP here.

[MoparYoungGun]

Very neat site, thats for the heads up!

[tomonty]

I gave up on the download.  With my sizzling 24.0 Kpbs dial-up speed it never would have worked well anyway.  I'm going to have to go with a satillite system.  Living out in the boonies has it's disadvantages.

I've got the same problem! I live about 2 hours from the closest town... I feel lucky to have a bloody telephone!

When I downloaded it, it was about 10.5 MB. Which means with 24Kbps, in theory it would take you about 61 minutes to download it. That is if you maintain that speed througout the download which won't always happen.

[FastbackJon]

You can find lots of cool stuff here, I even found a few and have my name on some of them.

http://perljam.net/google-satellite-maps/

[Chargerguy74]

That's insane, now imagine what type of technology the government has

[Troy]

That's insane, now imagine what type of technology the government has

Who do you think put the satellites there? You can find places where they've lowered the resolution and or blocked completely. I'd be willing to bet the government has more recent data as well. It's not all used for secret projects either. There are a lot of scientific uses for being able to compare snapshots in time of different areas. Neat stuff either way.

Troy

[dart3404]

I found my house.  

[FastbackJon]

If you look at the white house, the rooftops have been erased, and the capitol building is blurred, and I think some other areas around D.C. too.

My house is blurred, but that's just because I live in a low resolution area.