Just tried this and it blew me away. Makes Nasa World Wind look
positively amateurish.

http://earth.google.com/earth.html

Download link on the top right of the page.


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Conor wrote:
It's interesting, but appears to have the same rather old satellite
images as maps.google.com.

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:38:55 GMT, jb <jb@aol.com> wrote:

I can't complain: a road finished less that two years ago here near
my house is present.
Guess it varies by region and I just happen to live under a spot
where more satellites pass ;o)

best regards

Olaf

Conor wrote:
Many thanks ... It's teriffic!

Best Regards...

Conor wrote:
Wow....
Jim Daniel

jb <jb@aol.com> wrote in news:z2fwe.34699$J12.9198
@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com:

The imagery is from Keyhole which was recently acquired by Google. I am not
sure if they are using the Blue Marble data or not. More info on Blue Marble
here:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/

I believe these images get updated on a regular basis and an attempt is made
to get the most recent cloud free images.

I can't speak for the rest of the world, but the San Francisco area
looks a bit dated. Take a look at Lucasfilm, just south of the Palace
of Fine Arts, or the SF Zoo which has no African Savannah exhibit.

jb <jb@aol.com> wrote in news:BZhwe.661$j04.23@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com:

From <http://earth.google.com/faq.html> (including grammatical error)

Our images are photographs taken by satellites and aircraft sometime in the
last three years. The images in Google Earth are and are updated on a
rolling basis.

Conor wrote:

However, note:

Minimum configuration:

* Operating system: Windows 2000, Windows XP
* CPU speed: Intel® Pentium® PIII 500 MHz
* System memory (RAM): 128MB
* 200MB hard-disk space
* 3D graphics card: 3D-capable video card with 16MB VRAM
* 1024x768, 32-bit true color screen
* Network speed: 128 kbps ("Broadband/Cable Internet")

Recommended configuration:

* Operating system: Windows XP
* CPU speed: Intel® Pentium® P4 2.4GHz+ or AMD 2400xp+
* System memory (RAM): 512MB
* 2GB hard-disk space
* 3D graphics card: 3D-capable video card with 32MB VRAM or greater
* 1280x1024, 32-bit true color screen
* Network speed: 128 kbps ("Broadband/Cable Internet")

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On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:16:49 GMT, Fuzzy Logic wrote:

The one that I just looked at had to be over five years old.
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Conor, 6/28/2005, 11:33:17 AM, wrote:

I wouldn't quite say that. World Wind has more control and different
kinds of satellite pictures. You can also get much closer to the
object with the USGS Urban Ortho resolution than you can with the
Google Earth. This one is just newer pictures.

Thanks for the link.

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Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Tue, 28 Jun
2005 19:52:44 -0400, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do alt.comp.freeware,
yawatina tan reek esk Chrissy Cruiser <doublebreasted@mail.com> fornis do
marikano es bono tan el:

Part of where I live is under a year old, another part is under two years old.

deKay
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In article <xn0e41pon1nhixq001@news.readfreenews.net>, badgolferman
says...
Which is very nice if you live in the US but a good few billion of us
don't. One of the bugbears of alot of this type of software is that it
is very US-centric.




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Conor wrote:
Yea, but we don't count do we ?

P.

"jb" <jb@aol.com> wrote in message
news:z2fwe.34699$J12.9198@newssvr14.news.prodigy.c om...
FWIW I have just discarded WorldWind, which refused to run on my machine (XP
SP2) due to unsolvable problems. Has anyone else had difficulties with WW?

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Rockinghorse Winner wrote:
That may be, but I and many people in this group don't use Windows XP or
have fancy new systems, and thus are left out in the cold.

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It is quite an impressive piece of software. For those in the US,
simply enter a Zip Code in the Search window and click "Search"; you
will be taken to that location, as if by helicopter (!!) It will
probably take several seconds to minutes before the new image "sets
up", but it's worth the wait. Click-hold-and-drag the image to move
left and right, etc.

Nice work!!

Brett
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Powerful non-profit freeware discovery tool

"Mel" <MJ@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:gb95c1pp1telqu9d26lemhnr063m2jo2ge@4ax.com...
americans..by americans..<g>

Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des 29 Jun 2005
06:20:37 -0700, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do alt.comp.freeware,
yawatina tan reek esk ggdbr01@pacbell.net fornis do marikano es bono tan el:

The same works with UK postcodes.

deKay
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 05:19:53 -0700, John Corliss
<jcorliss@fake.invalid> wrote:



well, it runs happily on a three year old laptop under win2k.
(although I am aware that computers exist in this galaxy older than
three years
Actually the limiting factor for me is the network speed. The line is
faster than the requirement, but the servers appear to be slow in
responding.

best regards

Olaf