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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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 Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:16 pm Post subject: GOOGLE EARTH |
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Anyone check it out yet?
http://earth.google.com/
A few friends of mine were talking about it.. supposedly the technology is incredibly advanced and connected to satelites.. you can even put in your home address back at home.. and you can see your own house location.. cars that might be in the driveway.. etc.
Real surreal.. I'm downloading it now.. and see if its really what I heard about. Even heard you can view current events such as New Dehli's bombed buildings, earthquakes after affects, etc.
Anyone else check it out before? |
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numazawa
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: The Concrete Barnyard
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| Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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I swear, it's things like this that lead to giant pink rabbits in high places.
You watch, it'll only go downhill from there. |
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The evil penguin
Joined: 24 May 2003
Location: Doing something naughty near you.....
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| Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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hmmmph......
when's it gonna be available on Mac???????? |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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| It really rocks. Have spent hours having a look at our globe. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 12:01 am Post subject: |
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| I tried it out but couldn't find anything interesting. I remember 5 years ago a satelite photos website showed my house, totally recognizable. But with Google Earth, maybe I'm an idiot, but I couldn't get jack to show up. |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 12:30 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah it is pretty cool.... |
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krats1976
Joined: 14 May 2003
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 3:33 am Post subject: |
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| Where were ya'll when we were playin' the Google Earth game? |
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Red
Joined: 05 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 9:14 am Post subject: Re: GOOGLE EARTH |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
Anyone check it out yet?
http://earth.google.com/
A few friends of mine were talking about it.. supposedly the technology is incredibly advanced and connected to satelites.. you can even put in your home address back at home.. and you can see your own house location.. cars that might be in the driveway.. etc.
Real surreal.. I'm downloading it now.. and see if its really what I heard about. Even heard you can view current events such as New Dehli's bombed buildings, earthquakes after affects, etc.
Anyone else check it out before? |
It's not "live" it's a collection of satelite images placed on top of a 3D globe. To get the most current versions, with the bombed buildings, you have to update. |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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it's still pretty sweet though, I could find my apartment building and office in Korea, the offices where I work in Manchester, my parents house etc.
It's great to be zoomed right in on your apartment in Korea, then hit a location back home and 'fly' all the way there in 10-20 seconds. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Swiss James wrote: |
it's still pretty sweet though, I could find my apartment building and office in Korea, the offices where I work in Manchester, my parents house etc.
It's great to be zoomed right in on your apartment in Korea, then hit a location back home and 'fly' all the way there in 10-20 seconds. |
How the hell did you do that? This is with the free version? |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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| yeah- you just save both places in your locations- click from one to the other, and watch it go |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh, that wasn't what I meant. I tried to look at location in Seoul but all that happened as I zoomed was the 5-mile map got bigger and blockier. Plus there was this black square that showed up whenever I zoomed in too far. |
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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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I don't remember seeing any black squares?
Only central Seoul is in enough detail to check out individual buildings, but finding my place was pretty straightforward- plus I work at the airport, so finding that was again no sweat.
My friend was pretty mad that Ilsan just looked like brown countryside though. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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I could find my Seoul apartment as well.. saw the roof and the entire area around it.
Regarding the black squares.. I saw those from a distance.. but once zoom into it, you'll get beyond it and get much more detailed. |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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The free downlaod doesn't have detail for individual buildings everywhere. Seoul has an overlay that allows it, and Suwon and other parts of kyonggi-do as well. If it doesn't have a detail overlay, then depending on the set-up of your computer, the image starts to get blurrred at about 10 miles up. But still 60,000 feet up, the detail isn't that bad.
How do you update the program? |
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