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« on: July 11, 2005, 11:54:48 PM »
I don't know if any of you have seen this but it is very good.

Basically it is a fully zoomable model of the earth made up from satelite photos. Some places have a lot more detail than others but more photos are being added all the time.

http://earth.google.com/
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« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2005, 11:58:24 PM »
Thanks for reminding me!
I heard some fella going on about this on *cough cough* radio 2 and meant to check it out.
Also about their map section, apparently you can scroll in the direction you wanna go without having to constantly reload the pages.
Unique in map sites
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« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2005, 12:02:01 AM »
You can overlay roads on this, search for post codes and places, get directions, measure distances... Much better than maps.
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« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2005, 12:09:55 AM »
just saw my house!!
Freaky really, this must be to do with that company the queen invested in.
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« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2005, 12:14:53 AM »
just put the crosshairs on my exes house (or my house  Angry) but when i press fire nothing happens  Roll Eyes
The pic was taken about 6 months ago, i can tell from the building work
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« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2005, 12:16:55 AM »
before I download it, how big is it?
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« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2005, 12:18:12 AM »
erm, not too sure,  saw it get to 10mb but i left it for a min, i guess 13-14mb?
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« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2005, 12:20:21 AM »
The file I downloaded a few weeks ago is 10MB.

I imagine it will be between that and 15MB. It does connect to the Internet to download the images etc though so I don't know how well it would work on Dial Up.
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« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2005, 12:26:08 AM »
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« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2005, 01:23:54 AM »
I cant zoom in close enough to see any detail, I can see the outline of a town but if I zoom closer it becomes blurred, am I doing something wrong?
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« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2005, 01:31:05 AM »
No, it just doesn't have detailed images of all places yet.
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« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2005, 03:36:28 PM »
sussed it now, Im blown away!
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« Reply #12 on: July 12, 2005, 05:28:23 PM »
Great site.  Showed it to my kids.  They loved it too.

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