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2Driver
07-26-2005, 07:23 AM
You have to download the software from Google. This is AMAZING stuff!
http://earth.google.com/
Actual pictures from satellites -not animated
Fly over your house and zoom in, see your neighborhood
Fly up the river (actually boats on the sandbar !!!!)
Check out other lakes and look for hidden coves or plan a trip
Fly over your house...type in "PIZZA" and it marks all the pizza places near your house!!! same for hotels etc... way cool!!!!!!
Fly over any part of the earth and zoom in. Loved ones in Iraq? Check out the place by air.
Share the view of your place at the lake with others etc....
Use this thread to share your findings and stuff to check out. It is from Google so it should be safe and secure to use.
Cool stuff, see ya

DCBob
07-26-2005, 07:38 AM
You have to download the software from Google. This is AMAZING stuff!
http://earth.google.com/
Actual pictures not animated fly-over software from satellites
Fly over your house and zoom in, see your neighborhood
Fly up the river (actually boats on the sandbar !!!!)
Check out other lakes and look for hidden coves or plan a trip
Fly over your house...type in "PIZZA" and it marks all the pizza places near your house!!! same for hotels etc... way cool!!!!!!
Fly over any part of the earth and zoom in. Loved ones in Iraq? Check out the place by air.
Share the view of your place at the lake with others etc....
Use this thread to share your findings and stuff to check out. It is from Google so it should be safe and secure to use.
Cool stuff, see ya
Gotta love that Google :smile:

JetBoatRich
07-26-2005, 07:46 AM
That is one of the best I have seen :D

BarryMac
07-26-2005, 07:49 AM
Does it download right onto your desktop? How long is the download???

2Driver
07-26-2005, 08:03 AM
Yes, it downloads right to your desktop. It only took me a few minutes using a wireless connection to a slow dsl line. The stuff is addicting!
Free too!

CandyA$$
07-26-2005, 08:51 AM
OMG!
Sooo cool I looked at my house, my rental property.
But I wonder what the date of the shot is, cause it looks different.
I am having trouble making it zoom down and getting a clear shot.
But very cool.

riverracerx
07-26-2005, 09:02 AM
Doesn't work on a Mac yet. :(

Nord
07-26-2005, 09:56 AM
Doesn't show my house or my parents, just some random neighborhood by my house??? :confused:

2Driver
07-26-2005, 12:57 PM
Your house is there you just have to look for it. Try clicking on the button that will name the roads that might help you. Some pics close up can be blurry while others are clear enough to id vehicles in the driveway.
For date of the pictures click on the 'DG" in the "layers" menu.
Also Try this: Lake Havasu, 86403 from there you can fly in and out and up the river to the sandbar. It's all on there you jsuthave to spend some time to get used to it.
have fun

Morg
07-26-2005, 02:16 PM
This thing is pretty damn cool. I am not having a verry productive Monday at work.
I dig the panning feature where you can look at an angle for topography