OT: Google Earth

bearclaw · #1 July 19th, 2005, 01:49 PM

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Iron Giant said:
Wow. Saw my house. Wild. How often is it updated?

According to the help contents, all the existing maps are approximatly 1 year old. For some other isolated regions it's up to 2 years old.

From what I can tell, it appears to be updated as satellite information is updated. EG: if someone requests a satellite image of a certain location, the database is updated. I'm only assuming because I notice that farming states/provinces are nearly all high res pics, which would make sense because of farming requests for satellite imagry.

I'm also basing this information on the fact that my home town (Terrace, BC, Canada) has one half at high resolution while the other half is low, and I know for a fact that there was a satellite image request for this strip of land that is high res by a prospecting company about a year ago who was looking at potential gold mining operations.

I love this program.

geoschmo · #2 July 19th, 2005, 02:37 PM

Sweet! You can zoom in on the Grand Canyon with the Colorado river view and zoom through the canyon like you are flying. It's a little akward with the controls, but I can imaging somone writing a flight simulator program to interface with this thing.

tesco samoa · #3 July 19th, 2005, 09:29 PM

actually most of the pictures were taken by a plane flying at 40000 feet. Wanna see something cool check out bermuda. So many pools...

Also there is a pool downtown manhatten that can be seen from like 11 miles out

Makinus · #4 July 20th, 2005, 11:06 AM

Damn, my city is not even in the right place! If you ask for "Umuarama, Brazil" it takes you to a completely different state! maybe it�s because in Brazil we have a lot of cities with the same name...

If you wish to see the real Umuarama, search for "Cruzeiro do Oeste, Brazil" and go a little West and you will see it...

dogscoff · #5 July 20th, 2005, 12:43 PM

Open the attached zip and double click the kmz to be taken to my house - sadly somewhat low-rez.

tesco samoa · #6 July 20th, 2005, 12:45 PM

http://moon.google.com/

zoom in all the way

General Woundwort · #7 July 20th, 2005, 01:23 PM

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tesco samoa said:
http://moon.google.com/

zoom in all the way

Fah! It's not even green!

narf poit chez BOOM · #8 July 21st, 2005, 01:57 AM

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tesco samoa said:
http://moon.google.com/

zoom in all the way

Funny.

As to eating it - 200 tons per day.

My area is clear enough that I think I came within a few houses of my house. Kinda hard to tell from satalite.