Re: Google Earth?
 

Well I found my street and the school behind my house.and HMS Deadalus and the school I work at...Off to bed now..

Maybe I can play in the morning... ;)

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Try:

America, America
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Hmmmm. It really doesn't like that does it ;)

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Try picking a town or a city then the state. ;)

Like New York,NY.

Hey I found my Amercan penpal's house in Georgia..

I see the US has better picture resolution than we do...I'd be worried if I was a US citizen. ;)

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I am after victoria texas.
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ahh found it now
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wow

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Does that mean you are going to drop the lawsuit against Google then :p:
Glad you all got in, there are some interesting images to see if you look hard enough ;)

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I found it wouldn't accept my card details when I entered my Visa Delta card. It said I either didn't have enough money in my account, or I had entered my details wrong. My details were correct, so I was rather worried as I *should* have had thousands of pounds in the account. Checked with the Bank and the account balance is correct, so I can only assume they don't accept debit cards.

Went through first time when I switch to a credit card.

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:hyper: Found the street I used to live in when I was 7 in London.I even found the woods/park that I used to play in.Found the right road for my school but no school.

I suspect that every educational establishment bar one in my life have been knocked down... :(

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I shall take good care of your details Scastle ;) honest....

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......and is the pay version worth it?

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Well, the photos do seem a lot clearer. Also, if you print them, the Paid version will download higher than screen resolution images (if they are available).

You can also hook it up to a GPS device (although I have no GPS device, so have no use for this).

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Downloads are still suspended, I hope it reopens soon.

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Funny! It just accepted my debit card straight away.
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The funny thing is that when I try to find my old Junior school in Woolwich I keep being taken to Buckingham Palace... :rofl:

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i searched for my house and it took me to Egypt..:erm:

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Is egypt near manchester?

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Not as I know of lol.

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Google Earth is a fab program!

Here's some well known US places: -

Ground Zero

The White House

The Pentagon

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You can also clearly see The Statue of Liberty, Golden Gate Bridge, Niagara falls, The Eiffel Tower, Buckingham Palace, Kennedy Space Center, WDW Orlando, the Indy 500 track and even the Hollwod Sign to name but a few. Getting it to find them can be hit and miss but if you know roughly where they are you can often close the area down and then find it by eye.

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Area 51 is cool.

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No it isn't! They must've known when the satellite was coming, all the UFOs have been hidden in those hangers!

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I was trying to see if they had the before or after demolition pic of my old house but the resolution wasn't up to it:(

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Aghhhhhhh This blows chunks.

24 hours and I still cant get in.

You'd think if they were gonna launch a beta they would have been better prepared for it. **** poor organisation on thier part.

Well I wonder, if I wanted to pay for it could I? after all I can log on to authenticate how the feck can I pay for it?

I reckon this little disaster will end up costing them customers.


Highly ridiculous and pathetic on par with governmental cock ups.

Re: Google Earth?
 

whats with the kid on buildings?

ik

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Jesus christ, try to compress your images next time.
That first one was 1456.86 kB. :Yikes:

Hint: Use jpg for real-life images such as photos, png for logos and anything else with straight lines/low level of detail.

Re: Google Earth?
 

There's a new beta version of Google Earth out if anyone wants it
http://earth.google.com/index.html
Google Earth Download
What's new?

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was playing with this last Friday.. it's pretty good but is still too US, UK based.. type in Spain or Lanzarote and it doesn't know where you are talking about.. Budapest is listed but no other towns in Hungary are..

some of the pics are really good and can only see this getting better.. the links to businesses, hotels, restaurants etc only really seems to work for the US with one or two done in London and Uk

was able to zoom in on Disney World in Florida which was pretty good..

again the siteseeing bit only covers US with Eiffel tower listed as well

Re: Google Earth?
 

Well it is Beta and to be honest it was probably produced by people in the US, hopefully Google will start inputting more high res images for other countries and everyone will be able to play "spot my house" ;)
There are some nice image links to be found in the support forum for it
http://bbs.keyhole.com

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I think the problem is that it is relatively expensive to get a satellite to fly over somewhere and take a picture. This is probably why Google seems to concentrate on the more heavily populated areas (more chance people will want photos of big cities, so more photos will be taken). They seem to be improving though. I used a version of the software from keyhole technologies a couple of years back and the images (quality and coverage) have improved massively.

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Not really worth it's own thread, so I'll post it here.

Google Moon :)

(go to full zoom before you get bored and leave the site)

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:rofl::DAll the rumours are true then:D:omg:

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:rofl: very good - I thought we might get to see the landers :( :D

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There are some rather cheesey pics there.

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Which landers? :angel: :D

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Next you'll be saying you believe in Area 51 ! ;) :D

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;)

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Getting back to google EARTH I notice that the area around Sidney's Olympic village and stadiums is of a very much higher resolution than the rest of Sidney or Ozzyland.I wonder who was that interested in such high res piccy's?

I'm still looking for The Opera House though.The stupid search engine is so crap... :mad:

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Find sydney (i just typed that in to google earth) and go north a bit till you see the harbour bridge and it's to the east of the south end of the harbour bridge.
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Oh by the way you have an email coming your way that might help you locate the opera house but the image is not high res by the look of it.

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Yes.The coastline didn't seem to get the high res treatment that the southern part of Sidney got. :erm:

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While you're looking at Oz, Canberra is quite interesting, especially (what I assume is) the Parliament building, to the top left corner if you use this location file:

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Unfortunately not :( Maybe sometime in the future they will update the images, they are still working on the improvements.

I spy with my little eye
 

I spy with my little eye!

Whilst browsing England in Google Earth at the w/e I spotted a detailed area around Swindon. Zooming in I found an airbase and even further I found a suspicious looking plane parked on the tarmac. (Bookmark attached)

Some googling and map reading later confirmed that I have 'probably' found a U2 spy plane sitting on the tarmac at RAF Fairford! Why is a U2 on an RAF base ? Turns out the Air Tattoo was held at Fairford on 16/17 July and the list of static exhibts includes a U2S. Not sure why it is there after the event (can't see anyother exhibits still there) but still a curious find - a satelite finding a spy plane ;)

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Don't know if anyone has posted it yet but Microsoft's Earth deletes Apple HQ :erm:

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You mean like http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...86&postcount=6
in the MSN Earth thread :D

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I just can't keep up. :erm:

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But you have a lot more to keep an eye on... :D Like us lot when we are being our usual backchatting,backstabbing and cantankerous selves. ;)

I've got bored with it all especially as the Search engine with the Google Earth is so awful...Not a patch on the real thing.. :erm:

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Backstabbing I can understand...

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There is tablets for that you know, sometimes you can even buy them from Ebay :disturbd:

Re: I spy with my little eye
 

Those detailed images around Swindon were on Google Maps & Earth weeks (possibly longer) before the Air Tattoo.

The detailed area starts just above my house, just missed me!

Much Needed Improvements
 

I think Google Earth should add more 3d structure to the whole program(world) as well as putting the actual picture of the building and structure that the 3d objects represent. Also High Res Please!!!(like everyone on this thread has been screaming for). I wish there was like a Googkle Earth HD. Even though it seems demanding, this is what they get paid for. "I might even fork over a dollar or two for these improvements. They have something revolutionary on their hands and they need to focus on this software. What do you guys think ?

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This rocks:
http://www.neave.com/lab/flash_earth/

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uh - exactly how much did you pay for it, same as the rest of us I suspect - nothing !

They have paid for versions , if you are prepared to pay

http://earth.google.com/products.html

Re: Much Needed Improvements
 

Erm High Definition images are being sourced and added almost daily. Google Earth is in its' infancy at the moment and will surely improve greatly over the next 12 months but the biggest problem at the moment for Google is sourcing the necessary high res images that they need and incorporating them into the tool.

Re: Much Needed Improvements
 

I'll say..At the moment I'm trying to get DEM terrains to be able to convert via 3DEM to useable data to use in programs like Bryce and Terragen.Let me tell you that it's damned hard getting good resolution anything that represents the world,moon,Mars or anywhere else in this universe.Well not that you don't have to pay for..Free and high res is hard. :(

Re: Google Earth?
 

was using this the other day... off to Barca and Madrid and managed to find out where my hotels are and see all the sites before i even get there.. could have just used that and stayed at home

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This place doesn't excist according to the US Military

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I don't know if this has been posted here yet but Google Earth Hacks is quite interesting...

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Only now been shown this AWESOME Tool. I can see my Garden & everything.... Lots in UK not yet Mapped. But my House & all of Swansea is AWESOME. (2yrs old but good) ;)

Some nice reading on the past 10 pages, I loved Vegas & Area 51 :D Cant see the RAF Base :erm:

Here is Catherine Zeta Jones House :D

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/981/who24qk.th.jpg

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I found this in the State of Colorado.

What the hell is it?

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http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php?Number=233262 ?

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Doh! It's obvious what they are.....they are green circles on a brown landscape! :D

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Looks like some dodgy image interlacing too lol

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Thanks Paul.I did think it might be summat about conserving water but as there were no clues around the area I wanted to be sure.

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I would have guessed at them being in Israel.....they are good at that sort of thing there apparently....

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Anyone else noticed that the resolution of some of the satellite images is now down to 3" per pixel - simply stunning!

Try Las Vegas where you can see people lying round the pools:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl...2,0.173035&t=k

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Heh, I like the aerial view of the car parks... You can see where there are spaces whilst the people on the ground were driving round aimlessly :p:

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I can't run it on mine as I am on ME :(

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Works fine for me using Firefox 1.5.0.7, Opera 9.01 and IE 6.0.2800.1106 all on Windows 98SE version 4.10.2222A.

:confused:

Re: Google Earth?
 

Google Earth may not run, but Google Maps (the web based version) should.

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A good one that my comp will run is flash earth