July 11, 2005
Google Earth
As Dan points out, Google Earth is really an incredible piece of software. People are impressed when they use it, but I've noticed that many people miss some of the more impressive features. Some suggestions:
1. Turn on the "terrain" check box and go to the Grand Canyon or any other area where there is topographic data. You can fly around at ground level in 3D.
2. Go to the downtown of the major US cities, and turn on the "buildings" checkmark. In New York, for example, you can fly around the Empire State Building in 3D.
3. Try driving directions. Not only can you see the route overlaid on the satellite image as you can with the Google Satellite functionality of Google Maps, each direction shows up on the Google Earth map where the direction is located.
I'm looking forward to seeing how Google will use the technology to make money.
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yes.. I think many google investors are as well...
another cool feature is the webcam links, as is the ability to email the links to someone else.
I wish the granularity of detail were somehow open sourced- that I could somehow submit a higher res version of my hometown...
Posted by: ooghe at July 11, 2005 03:42 PM
nice post. i'll return. the best condition in life is: http://psa-eid.org , right Grass will Fetch Grass without any questions a false friend and a shadow attend , Universal Round Compute or not if you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it
Posted by: dylan anderson at November 18, 2005 01:40 PM
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