The most amazing thing ever................... Google Earth!

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Angelus3K · #1 Post by **Angelus3K** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:24 am

I'm sure some of you have already seen this but its incredible!

http://earth.google.com/

Its a program you download and install and it basically has a 3D earth which you can actually go anywhere on Earth and see everything! I mean you can zoom down to the Grand Canyon, swing round to London and see Nelson's Column.

The pictures must have been taken by satalite and planes etc but its so well put together!

I'm gonna checkout Erpy and Navy's addresses right now lol!

Broomie · #2 Post by **Broomie** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 12:53 pm

Interesting, yet Hemel is still blurred as hell.

Angelus3K · #3 Post by **Angelus3K** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:01 pm

Try going to see Nelson's Column you can zoom right in and actually see it!!

Here's some screenshots I took of an aliens journey from outer space to Phoenix, Arizona :D

Earth

USA

Arizona

Streets of Phoenix!

Alliance · #4 Post by **Alliance** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 4:45 pm

Wow, that's cool stuff. Check out Chicago. And for that matter, look how close you can zoom in! Duuuuude.

Angelus3K · #5 Post by **Angelus3K** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 9:41 pm

Here is a movie from Outer-space to our home Wallsend in Newcastle!

Just dont come and rob us!

Our place

#6 Post by **navynuke04** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:26 pm

This is pretty similar to http://maps.google.com . This is a bit more featured, but functionally, it looks pretty much the same.

I noticed that you can zoom in quite a bit closer in America than in Europe... Wallsend is pretty blurry.

Angelus3K · #7 Post by **Angelus3K** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:28 pm

Yea, I imagine there is alot more close up pics/maps on the US than small towns in the UK lol

Steffi Evenstar · #8 Post by **Steffi Evenstar** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 6:25 am

it's nifty, but, it's not too good with small towns. i tried to look up where i lived in WV, and all i got were coloured lines of the roads - no buildings or anything.

Angelus3K · #9 Post by **Angelus3K** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 9:06 am

I know what you mean Steffi, alot of smaller places dont have close up photos.

I expect that one day the whole of the earth will have a close up shot so Google Earth will be complete by then!!

Broomie · #10 Post by **Broomie** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 1:13 pm

Yeah, if I'm not mistaken it was Google Earth BETA? Google is the only company I don't mind taking over every aspect of the internet, they rule anyway.

Gronagor · #11 Post by **Gronagor** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 1:06 pm

This IS fantastic.

Just think how great this will be if Google could get sattelite updates every hour or so!

Can already see Pres Bush misusing this... checking in to find weapons of mass destruction. :p

edit1: I can make out my house, but it doesn't zoom in as far as in the US. Incredible!

edit2: For some reason they've placed another town's name precisely in the middle of our city. Weird. :p

Where this technology is going: very scary!

Gron: home address: lat=-29.1006439157, lon=26.1674431161

Angelus3K · #12 Post by **Angelus3K** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 5:39 pm

Cool Gron, I'll check out your house when I get home!

Angelus3K · #13 Post by **Angelus3K** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 9:18 pm

Hey Gron,

I did a search for

26.1674431161, 29.1006439157

and

29.1006439157, 26.1674431161

but it just came up with blank parts of Africa.

This is where we live, do a search for "Hadrian Park, Wallsend, UK" and then you can see the Hadrian Park Chop Suey House, we live down the road from there!

Gronagor · #14 Post by **Gronagor** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 12:19 pm

There's a - before the 29 A3K.

Now I know exactly where you live Angelus... I've found the quickest route to your home! :p Nhahahahaha

Angelus3K · #15 Post by **Angelus3K** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 2:07 pm

Ahhh got it lol, is that the place near to Bulfontein?

navynuke04 wrote:I noticed that you can zoom in quite a bit closer in America than in Europe... Wallsend is pretty blurry.

I've just thought, I dont think its a case that the Wallsend area is blurry its just that its a map rather than a photograph. Thats what it looks like anyway :)

Pidgeot · #16 Post by **Pidgeot** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 3:55 pm

Home @ lat=55.5064958789, lon=9.50307638134. It's quite blurry, though, so you may want to enable the road layer (which, as it happens, was the only way I was able to pinpoint the location).

Gronagor · #17 Post by **Gronagor** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 7:00 pm

Angelus3K wrote:Ahhh got it lol, is that the place near to Bulfontein?

I don't know where they got Bulfontein... it's a misplacement from them. About 150 km or something. But looking at their road placements I guess it's understandable.

Well... everything which is green around there would be houses. Don't know why it's so blurry.

Pidgeot... I'm checking your house out right now! :p

ThreeHeadedMonkey · #18 Post by **ThreeHeadedMonkey** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 10:08 pm

This is crazy... But VERY cool.

oriel · #19 Post by **oriel** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 11:10 am

Wow! You can even see the burning oil fields in Iraq! <<<NEAT>>>

Kurdt · #20 Post by **Kurdt** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 11:40 pm

Heh, my friend's dad showed this to me a couple of weeks ago. Am I the only one who finds this reeeeeaaaalllly creepy? Thank God it's not live feed...yeesh.

The Avatar · #21 Post by **The Avatar** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 3:52 am

hmm.. I like this very much.

How did you save the tour as a movie? I'd like to do that for you guys..

anyways.. based on the fact the two towers aren't in newyork, i'd say the pictures taken there are newer than 4 years ago.. but according to the shot of my house.. judging by the cars in the driveway: (Firebird, mustang, impala, saturn, my chevy truck, and a gto - most of which were sold several years ago), and the fact the intersection between I-35 and 635 is the old one ( a new one has been under construction for the past 3 years..), not to mention the placement of grass lots over the department stores and retail shopping centers near my apartment.. i'd say the dallas picture has to be about 5 years old.

It's a really cool program!! (i'm lucky because I live within the confines of Dallas, which has the satellite pictures) but it's still very cool.

Quest For Glory Fan · #22 Post by **Quest For Glory Fan** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:47 am

you could see the cars in your driveway? I bet I could too bbut my driveway was empty. all the pictures must have been taken in the Summer.

The Avatar · #23 Post by **The Avatar** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:59 am

Yeah.. in dallas the pictures appear to be summer pics, but zip over to Massachusettes!

See how brown everything looks? Those have to be Autumn pictures because that state is normally one of the greenest..

Da_elf · #24 Post by **Da_elf** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 7:22 pm

shame they one have high res of the north of my island where there really isnt much of anything. plus they have one of our towns, oistings, being slightly inland. oistings is a coastal town primarily around oistings fish market where it gets its name from.

The Guy · #25 Post by **The Guy** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 5:55 pm

That is absolutely amazing!!! You guys weren't kidding aobut how close you can zoom in. It's unfortunate about what you say about the Dallas picture The Avatar, from what it seems the pictures of my area (I live right out near Boston) are of the fall season last year. The only reason I know this is that the car I can see in our driveway is in the picture and we have only had it for about 1 year now. Pretty amazing stuff.

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