Tech: Google earth

Subject: Tech: Google earth
From: GUEST,bani
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 06:21 AM

how it is developed ???

Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: GUEST,sandip
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 06:26 AM

GSS....
bey

Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: GUEST,bani
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 06:28 AM

PLZ explain

Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 10:45 AM

oh, I LOVE these vague threads...like I love Vaughn Monroe singing with peanut butter in his mouth.

Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 11:12 AM

http://www.frappr.com/mudcatcafe

Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: GUEST,me
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 08:51 PM

Google wrote the software and they don't discuss such things. The maps are from satellites.

Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 09:47 PM

If you haven't seen it, take a look: http://earth.google.com/

In fairness to Bill Gates, might I suggest:
http://virtualearth.msn.com/?

Both are fun.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Oct 05 - 11:22 PM

using google earth, I can see the cars in my driveway. I cannot make virtualearth work at all.

Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Oct 05 - 01:19 AM

Since I'm out in the wilderness, I don't rate high-definition photographs of my place. Both Virtualearth and Google Earth have rather fuzzy photos of this area. Still, I can make out more-or-less what's my home. It's the thing that doesn't look like trees.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: mack/misophist
Date: 30 Oct 05 - 08:40 PM

Google Earth ain't interested in linux. Oddly enough, VirtualEarth works just fine. Bill musta forgot.

Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Oct 05 - 12:45 PM

Heck, on some of the photos available through our local council of governments I can see that darned white bucket that I left sitting on the grass a few feet from the garage in my back yard.

Thanks for the links, Joe.

SRS

Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: heric
Date: 23 Apr 06 - 01:23 PM

Center on the Pitcairn Islands (or better, Taravai - 23° 07' 0 S; 134° 59' 0 W), then zoom out until you can see the entire globe.

Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Apr 06 - 10:09 PM

I get blue with some wavy markings---and what looks like a ring of light around the world....is that what I'm supposed to see? Like a total eclipse?

Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: GUEST,redhorse at work
Date: 24 Apr 06 - 02:55 AM

Spot the American spy plane at RAF Fairford!

nick

Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: GUEST, heric
Date: 24 Apr 06 - 11:17 AM

yeah that's all Bill. So much open ocean taking up the entire field of view.

Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Apr 06 - 11:28 AM

well, Pitcairn is one of the most remote places on Earth, pretty impressive.

Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 24 Apr 06 - 11:43 AM

Who was it around here that actually thought that Google Earth worked in Real Time?!?!

Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Apr 06 - 12:42 PM

well, it's an impression you get the first time you see it.....for maybe 20 seconds. Then that zooooooooom over the ocean makes you go WHOA! I just wish they'd hurry up and add more detail views...(sad that there are 'secure' areas they are not allowed to show close)

Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: RangerSteve
Date: 24 Apr 06 - 04:01 PM

The pictures are not recent. Ny roommates bright blue Toyota has a dead transmission and hasn't been moved in at least three years, but doesn't show up on Google Earth, and the state park where I work doesn't show the new office, which was built about three years ago.

A view of my childhood home shows that the trees that my father lovingly planted have all been removed. All those old country songs I've been singing about going home and finding the old home place has been drastically altered (Sweet Sunny South, What Have They Done to the Old Home Place, Rank Strangers, etc) have now taken on a whole new meaning for me.

Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 24 Apr 06 - 04:04 PM

"The pictures are not recent."

Some dullard here not that long ago believed that when you hit GoogleEarth, you were actually interfacing with an orbiting satellite.... Being shown pics in real time...

Except that the majority of pics on Google Earth are in fact from high altitude PLANES and NOT satellite photography....