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Tech: Google earth

29 Oct 05 - 06:21 AM (#1593000)
Subject: Tech: Google earth
From: GUEST,bani

how it is developed ???


29 Oct 05 - 06:26 AM (#1593001)
Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: GUEST,sandip

GSS....
bey


29 Oct 05 - 06:28 AM (#1593004)
Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: GUEST,bani

PLZ explain


29 Oct 05 - 10:45 AM (#1593136)
Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: Bill D

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


29 Oct 05 - 11:12 AM (#1593152)
Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: Clinton Hammond

http://www.frappr.com/mudcatcafe


29 Oct 05 - 08:51 PM (#1593432)
Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: GUEST,me

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


29 Oct 05 - 09:47 PM (#1593477)
Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: Joe Offer

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-


29 Oct 05 - 11:22 PM (#1593544)
Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: Bill D

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


30 Oct 05 - 01:19 AM (#1593590)
Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: Joe Offer

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-


30 Oct 05 - 08:40 PM (#1593921)
Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: mack/misophist

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


31 Oct 05 - 12:45 PM (#1594244)
Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: Stilly River Sage

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


23 Apr 06 - 01:23 PM (#1725405)
Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: heric

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.


23 Apr 06 - 10:09 PM (#1725729)
Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: Bill D

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?


24 Apr 06 - 02:55 AM (#1725803)
Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: GUEST,redhorse at work

Spot the American spy plane at RAF Fairford!

nick


24 Apr 06 - 11:17 AM (#1725977)
Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: GUEST, heric

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


24 Apr 06 - 11:28 AM (#1725991)
Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: Bill D

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


24 Apr 06 - 11:43 AM (#1725999)
Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: Clinton Hammond

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


24 Apr 06 - 12:42 PM (#1726066)
Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: Bill D

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)


24 Apr 06 - 04:01 PM (#1726248)
Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: RangerSteve

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.


24 Apr 06 - 04:04 PM (#1726251)
Subject: RE: Tech: Google earth
From: Clinton Hammond

"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....