Interesting places to look at on google earth?

Oriel

What would you recommend as being the better/cooler places to look at on google earth?

S.

Nightwish

Baghdad
Niagara Falls
Victoria Falls
Mount Saint Helens

johnny_ultimate

The obvious : Your own house.
You can say "OOh" followed by "Aah!".

Commissar

Try Pearl Harbour.

hackattack

New Yorks pretty amazing on it if you've been & know a few landmarks. Mess about with 3d buildings & user locations.

theCzar

I found the Hostel where I stayed in Lima...

Had a look for weapons of mass distruction in Baghdad, i think i saw some so I'm preparing a large scale military incursion.

xzanti

I followed the Liffey all the way from Dublin Port to Leixlip... Then I lost interest :rolleyes:

Some countries are just a blurr.. I tried to find Bora Bora Beach in Ibiza and all I could see was fuzz :rolleyes:

Goodshape

Mount Everest
The Sphinx and Pyramids
More Pyramids
The view that inspired Edvard Munch's 'The Scream'

Oriel

Sydney seems to have loads of cool things for some reason.

LegacyUser

Oh I just downloaded google earth, its so cool, obviously the first place I went to was my own house, I can't believe how good the picture quality is. its unreal.

Oriel

Get a good view of all of Ireland - what the hell are those red fields west of Dublin?

testicle

It's where the culchies grow poppies. Then they harvest them and make them into opium.

Binomate

I've never used it. Am I missing out?

Goodshape

Binomate wrote:

I've never used it. Am I missing out?

Opium? Yea, it's da' bomb.

The_Banned

when will they update the maps? half of dublin is gone

Binomate

Neverland!

Chopperdog

Yeah, It appears to show very little for Ireland outside of Dublin, and images turn into map of mars style north of Skerries, just about 1 mile before my hours... Boo hoo,

largerthanlife

st.james's park!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Funkstard

Strangely enough though, around Wexford & Enniscorthy has high detail

padser

Downloaded it, pretty Sxxx tbh. Doesnt have my house. And the pic quality for even dublin isnt the best at all. expected a lot more.

Steve_o

Niagra Falls is pretty cool, The whitehouse is on it also although there supposed to blur it out!!

D

They have some parts in 3-D such as famous mountains and water falls. Also one of the prgrammers snuck in some verses of the Koran near the grand canyon.

morlan

sinecurea wrote:

Get a good view of all of Ireland - what the hell are those red fields west of Dublin?

Coilte tree farms. the red stuff is acutally soil where trees have been chopped down..

JustCoz

If you were away over the summer try to find where you were. I found exactly where i worked in Toronto, its so cool and pic quality is amazing!

lodgepole

D wrote:

They have some parts in 3-D such as famous mountains and water falls.

Everything is in 3D once you have terrain switched on. If you adjust its value in the options to 1.5 you get a much better idea... Go down to Kerry, hold down your middle mouse button, push the mouse forward and behold.

JustCoz wrote:

If you were away over the summer try to find where you were. I found exactly where i worked in Toronto, its so cool and pic quality is amazing!

I used it to plan my trip through Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Found lots of things I wanted to see that I might otherwise have missed.

Diarmsquid

Anyone have co-ordinates for Area 51?

Sundy

Diarmsquid wrote:

Anyone have co-ordinates for Area 51?

Search for "Rachel, Nv" and its a few mile west or 13N, 115W

testicle

Diarmsquid wrote:

Anyone have co-ordinates for Area 51?

It doesn't exist. allegedly.

bringitdown

I like the Hoover Dam

dahooligan

It won't let me open it! I'm so mad I could raise my voice a couple of octaves!! :mad:

aphex™

Whole website full of good places to visit: Google Globe Trotter.

Oriel

Nice one, Cheers, aphex™! (and everybody else of course)

Alkers

Sundy wrote:

Search for "Rachel, Nv" and its a few mile west or 13N, 115W

Zoom out a nd go a bit further South-West and there's loads of craters in the ground and also some areas covered in large Green circles???

Tobias Greeshman

Victoria Falls is nice but a right bitch to find (its on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe for anyone that wants to know).

Diarmsquid

testicle wrote:

It doesn't exist. allegedly.

I think I've found it. How do you post those location links for Google Earth?

<Edit>
Search for Groom Lake, they'll give you a place called Little A'Le'Inn, zoom out and go west over the mountain thing. There's a lake there and south of the lake, is what I think is Area 51.

What do you think?

Riamfada

testicle wrote:

It doesn't exist. allegedly.

"Area 51" lat=37.2332746494, lon=-115.796868395


Enterthat into your thingy.

Ah the things I do

cooperguy

Grimes wrote:

"Area 51" lat=37.2332746494, lon=-115.796868395


Enterthat into your thingy.

Ah the things I do

Or just type "area 51" into the search bar. Why does everyone have to do things the complicated way!

The Hill Billy

If you're still looking I picked these up on the interweb yesterday...

Ancient Landmarks
Nazca Lines: -14.73, -75.14
Giza Pyramids/Sphinx: 29.975, 31.13
Teotihuacan (Pyramid of the Sun): 19.692, -98.844
Stonehenge: 51.18, -1.82 (thanks Henrik)
Angkor: 13.41, 103.865
Machu Picchu: -13.147, -72.495
Rapa Nui (Easter Island): -27.11, -109.35
Chichen Itza: 20.68, -88.56
Troy: 39.955, 26.24

Natural Wonders
Uluru (Ayers Rock): -25.35, 131.03
Arizona Meteor Crater: 35.03, -111.02

Science and Space Stuff
Arecibo: 18.345, -66.755
Very Large Array (VLA) Radio Telescope: 34.078, -107.618
Cape Canaveral: 28.45, 80.58

Esoteric and Mysterious Places
Mormon Temple (Washington, D.C.): 39.014, -77.066
Washington Monument: 38.89, -77.035
House of the Temple (Scottish Rite Masonic Temple): 38.914, -77.036
George Washington National Masonic Memorial: 38.807, -77.066
Mont St Michel: 48.636, -1.511
Rennes-le-Chateau: 42.935, 2.262
Loch Ness: 57.3, -4.46
Devil's Tower: 44.59, -104.715

Places in History
Trinity (Atomic Bomb) Test Site: 33.678, -106.476
Hiroshima: 34.395, 132.455
Chernobyl: 51.385, 30.125

Religious Landmarks
The Vatican: 41.902, 12.457
Mecca: 21.42, 39.825
Jerusalem: 31.78, 35.215

Military
Groom Lake (Area 51): 37.24, -115.81
The Pentagon: 38.87, -77.506
Pine Gap: -23.738, 133.855

damienom

Check out the Bewleys building at Total Fitness, you can see the Bewleys.com that's on the roof visible to planes coming into land

Same with the Kodak Theatre ASAIK, Croker looks great

chamlis

We should have a google Moon, man. And a google Mars. And a little ISS you can peek in the windows of....

blu_sonic

It great, pity the line that seperates dublin and the map quality pics goes through my house.

this is a good advert for the google earth forum

NikNik

Keep an eye out for JLo's bum.

On a more serious note, Maxim has built a 75 by 100ft billboard viewable from Google Earth for their 100th issue. It was constructed in the desert outside of Las Vegas. It was constructed on the ground, photographed and made viewable in Google Earth through an overlay file.

raheny red

xzanti wrote:

Some countries are just a blurr.. I tried to find Bora Bora Beach in Ibiza and all I could see was fuzz :rolleyes:

That was some British teenage tart with her knickers off!