Google Earth

[Yaz]

Found this the other day, and I thought it was really nice. You can take a virtual tour of the Earth, anywhere you want. You can zoom in, tilt, and rotate. It's not really 3D, but it's not bad. I think this is the free version, which only shows major cities that you can zoom in really close.

I tried it and found my neighborhood, but the satellite image seems to be old. In the picture, there's a construction site across the street from me, but that was like in late 2002. So I'm not sure how new are the images in other places.


Check it out
http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

And this is my 'hood

 

[Ahmed]

Ive had this for a couple of months .. but it doest work too well for me .. i stopped using it ever since .. ill try using it in a while to see if i can get pictures of ur quality

 

[Alx]

yeh, it doesnt seem to do much for me either... i liked it at first, but it cant pin point my are either. gave up.

 

[audi_rudy]

i have this also but it dosent work very good. it seems to work well in citys and highly populated areas. also it dosent work much in foreign countrys ive found

 

[notic]

it really depends on what area your looking at. when i looked for my house, i could actually see my car in the driveway.

 

[Lemantech]

ive gotto the pro deluxe version

 

[Ahmed]

it really depends on what area your looking at. when i looked for my house, i could actually see my car in the driveway.

Now thats something!

 

[zetableh]

I've had Google Earth since just after it came out, and though coverage is getting better, neither my college nor my hometown are unblurry yet.

 

[yomomwhat]

ha, i got it a few weeks ago, its pretty good but like you said many places are still not there! area 51 is on there! and for some reason Las Vegas and New York have like boxes instead of the large buildings......which makes no sense, the only reason i could think of was may be something to do with terrorists but if the building still has an outline...then i dunno....someone said san fransisco was very good on it! if this is available to the public then think how good spy satellites are now!! MSN are starting their own thing actually, ill post the link later, but it only has the US at the moment!

 

[MikeJ]

yomomwhat, have you tried checking/unchecking the box that says 'buildings' or the tilt down feature?

I think the program is great fun, although Finland is very, very blurry and too many of the names here are spelled wrong... not to mention that some of them are, for no reason, in Swedish.

 

[yomomwhat]

yomomwhat, have you tried checking/unchecking the box that says 'buildings' or the tilt down feature?

I think the program is great fun, although Finland is very, very blurry and too many of the names here are spelled wrong... not to mention that some of them are, for no reason, in Swedish.

yea thanks, do you get actualy buildings (like the hotels) in las vegas then? or even new york? every where else i get buildings, its just these 2 cities i get like cardboard cut outs if you know what i mean!!

 

[MikeJ]

yea thanks, do you get actualy buildings (like the hotels) in las vegas then? or even new york? every where else i get buildings, its just these 2 cities i get like cardboard cut outs if you know what i mean!!

With 'buildings' unchecked you should get normal satellite photos just like everywhere else.

 

[PHYBENZ]

Does anyone have the mac beta version? I tried to find and can't anymore...

 

[live4mercedes]

i have a problem,when i start it,the white loading screen comes up,but then it close and nothing comes,please help me with it

 

[dOmInIX]

i have a problem,when i start it,the white loading screen comes up,but then it close and nothing comes,please help me with it

Maybe the zone where you live isn't covered...I can't see my house neither.

 

[live4mercedes]

no i mean the programm doesnt start

 

[donau]

I think the program is great fun, although Finland is very, very blurry and too many of the names here are spelled wrong... not to mention that some of them are, for no reason, in Swedish.

It is great fun. Last week my cousin from Turku called and I showed him my house. While I know where his house is, of course as you mentioned, it is too blurry. They need to get more of Finland done with detailed images. We were saying that at the rate technology is advancing, we might still one day be able to go outside with the wireless mode on and wave at each others in real time. Sounds silly, but then again just about everything in the line of information technology that is taken for granted today would have sounded silly not all that long ago.

 

[yomomwhat]

no i mean the programm doesnt start

does your pc match the minimum system requirements