i've installed google earth.
what kinds of cool stuff can i do with it?

i've already checked out my house.

You can look for signs of ancient ruins and meteor craters.

the imagery over NZ is pretty poor. i suppose it would be handy if you lived in europe though.

Find the Nazca lines.

Find, and tag all the hotels you've ever stayed at. I pretty much found all of mine, except 3 or 4 from when I was too young to remember.

Absolutely eff all, in other words. Congratulations, you've just spent 30 minutes installing a piece of junk, just so you could look at your house - something that you could have achieved in five seconds flat if you'd had the sense to step outside.

Excep the can't look at it from ABOVE.

Here is what you can do Leopold. Grab the Earth and spin it. Depending on the spin you can fly over areas with different speeed, it is like a flightsimulator.

:rolleyes:

I found the smog shown on it interesting.

As I suspected most of the stuff we get in southern Ontario is from DETROIT, ohio, and other steelhouse shitholes.

OMG England is a dirty looking place, how can you breathe there? I could make out the crop circles in the country though, neeatoooo

Position your sights over washington D.C(white house is most interesting), all kinds of shapes U.S freemason forefathers designed with the streets.

crop circles? post latitude and longitude please.

hes probably just talking about circular patterns on the ground. most likely created by pivot irrigation.

How some famous places and cities cannot be zoomed in more than just dim contoures? :confused:

I can zoom in my house pretty neat, although I live out of the 'Roman roads'.

watch the world right from your computer.

I live on the edge of a state forest that goes on for a round 50km. I love going for bush walks and found google earth an invaluable tool for locating tracks and interesting features, something no map I could ever find could give me.

Check out the Grand Canyon, the Sphinx and the pyramids of Giza. Those are kinda neat. Also check out the Hoover Dam. Then zoom in on the Hoover dam, so you can see the cars clearly, and then tilt the map so you can almost see the horizon, so you're not looking directly down, but at an angle. It's pretty funny how Google Earth deals with altitude differences.

Is it much better resolution and zoom that maps.google.com?

Now that I live in a far flung land I like to take a virtual trip down memory lane through the streets and places I trod as a young man once in awhile. Just discovered that my mothers next door neighbor has uploaded pics of the street she lives on and the park beside it.

Is it much better resolution and zoom that maps.google.com?
in las vegas and seattle you can see people.

there are still alot of places that suck when it comes to resolution. the 2 i mentioned are the only ones i know of with really good zoom.

in las vegas and seattle you can see people.

there are still alot of places that suck when it comes to resolution. the 2 i mentioned are the only ones i know of with really good zoom.

Cool.
I think I'm going to check it out.
Thanks.

Check paris too

crop circles? post latitude and longitude please.

Ok, when I get home.

If you have the "i" landmarks active they are easy to find in southwest england, not quite as far as Cornwall and southeast of glouchester - i don't know what the area is called. I was actually looking for the "Camel" rivers and didn't find them.

It's no big deal really, they are probably maintained by the farmers, whether or not "someone" else made them.

what about stonehenge? isn't that in england too?

LoL yeah, somewhere near the southwest coast, I think. I wanted to find that too, then I got distracted by the pollution I saw.

i heard there were far more interesting stone circles in ireland.

crop circles? post latitude and longitude please.

51deg 25min 09 sec N
1 deg 50min 14 sec w

there are about 4-5 shapes in the general area.

All right.
I downloaded it.
Give me some good stuff to see.

http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=63331

All right.
I downloaded it.
Give me some good stuff to see.
check out your house, it's the first thing i did.

getting good stuff to see is what this thread is about.
if you come across anything press shift+print screen, open paint and on the edit menu click paste, click save as (filename).jpg, then host it. or you can write down the lat/ long (lower left corner) and post those.

stonehenge
51d, 10m, 43.97s north
1d, 49m, 35.10s west

there is other stuff in the vicinity.

I am using it for nearly a year now.And I have to say it's cool.

I wonder what is the future of this technology.

I like to look at places I've been and look for familiar landmarks like the Mosque in Mecca, Manhattan, Miami beach, Madh Island, Bombay Pune roads, Goa, or even places I'd not been but would like to see, like the Wall of China or the Temple of the Mount in Israel. Its fun.

stonehenge
51d, 10m, 43.97s north
1d, 49m, 35.10s west

there is other stuff in the vicinity.
Does this 'other stuff' resemble a bunch of stoned hippies in any fashion?

Hey lay off the druids!

Yeah, that's what I keep tellin' em.

the strangest sights in google earth:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134186-page,1-c,mapping/article.html

i've installed google earth.
what kinds of cool stuff can i do with it?

i've already checked out my house.

Look for your brain, I know it's there somewhere! :p

I am using it for nearly a year now.And I have to say it's cool.

I wonder what is the future of this technology.

Think about what the capabilities are that the military have with it. They could watch you at your house and where you travel.

On google earth, pictures from my neighborhood are more than 3 years old. Is this typical?

Yes. My area is still shown with 4-year-old imagery. As I'm sure you have noticed, resolution varies considerably too.

The Google Earth Community (http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php/Cat/0) board shares all sorts of interesting and categorized things to spy.

Think about what the capabilities are that the military have with it. They could watch you at your house and where you travel.

Google earth isn't a live map, it's a composite of hundreds of thousands of images. Some satellite but the most are from aircraft. The images aren't necessarily recent either.

For instance my local area had some roads that were completed circa 1998, but it also contained views of a Helicopter firm that's no longer in the area and a long brown tract where a gas line was put that stretches for about 50 miles. (They put that in in 1992)

What would of been interesting is if Google Earth had somehow linked with Archive.org's wayback machine and started sculpturing the world as and when we saw it back in the day.

I'm surprised they haven't put up their own satellite.

Hi, why not posting the image of interesting places that you could find in google earth?

Sam: "I'm surprised they haven't put up their own satellite."

I doubt it would improve the imagery much: Either they would submit to U.S. censorship, or suffer unfortunate "technical difficulties".

Sam: "I'm surprised they haven't put up their own satellite."

I doubt it would change the imagery much: Either they would submit to Pentagon censorship, or suffer unfortunate "technical difficulties".

I mean, seeing as they are so on top of all other media control.

They could certainly afford it.

the strangest sights in google earth:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134186-page,1-c,mapping/article.html
the instructions say to open this file from its current location.
that doesn't seem to work with my machine so i saved it to the setup files for google earth and opened it from there.

Look for your brain, I know it's there somewhere! :p
cute virgil.

I'm surprised they haven't put up their own satellite.
google earth software was purchased from another company that was planning on selling it to the masses. google snatched it up and gave it away. pretty nice of them i would say.

Google earth isn't a live map, it's a composite of hundreds of thousands of images. Some satellite but the most are from aircraft. The images aren't necessarily recent either.

For instance my local area had some roads that were completed circa 1998, but it also contained views of a Helicopter firm that's no longer in the area and a long brown tract where a gas line was put that stretches for about 50 miles. (They put that in in 1992)

What would of been interesting is if Google Earth had somehow linked with Archive.org's wayback machine and started sculpturing the world as and when we saw it back in the day.


I only was trying to answer this question.

"Originally Posted by DNA100
I am using it for nearly a year now.And I have to say it's cool.

I wonder what is the future of this technology. "

las vegas has resolutions good enough to see people on the ground.

It is fun to look up all the old 'secret' ICBM silos in the US and ex-USSR. Some are blurred out and many hundreds of others are in plain, crystal-clear view.

Google Earth Version 4.3.7284.3916

Read more (http://pack.google.com/intl/en/installer_eula.html?ci_earth=on&hl=en&gl=us)

What is the difference/improvement?

Don't forget to check off those "Layers" section to get even more stuff added to your views. I didn't check off 3D buildings photorealistic setting until recently and that gives an even better view of everything. I just don't like it because it isn't "real time" but photos from over a year or more ago. :(

I mean, seeing as they are so on top of all other media control.

I would lock you in a tower like Cinderella.

I would lock you in a tower like Cinderella.

Actually that was Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm.

I didnt think sam would have heard of Rapunzel.

I didnt think sam would have heard of Rapunzel.

She's a very bright woman, never think there's anything that she doesn't understand.

When I need to go somewhere and I don't know exactly where it is I use google maps before I leave. I think that it is a good alternative to taking a map with me or a navigation computer in the automobile and it helps me train my memory.

I checked out all the houses in England I have lived in (8). I tried to do this with only the image and no place names or anything; kept me amused for a while.. And found the town and compound I used to live in in Saudi Arabia called Khamis Mushayt. I also found many landmarks we used to pass on the way to our fishing trips to the Red sea.

see if you can find the robbery in progress that is surposedly on it:p

There is one in Manassas, Virginia