Google Maps beta...

Wertz

http://maps.google.com/

Click on satelite(top right corner) and use the sliders to zoom.
No images of Ireland yet (at the street level) but if it ends up like the USA detail it'll be great.
For reference I tried a few places I've been to in the 'States and it's accurate as hell. Could even make out the swimming pool of house I stayed in.

Whatever next...

Winters

There are maps of Ireland. I used to work for a company that did it. Pretty much doing what Google are doing now with their maps and being able to txt directions to closeist resturant etc.

Twas a few years ago now though.

Wertz

Oh I've no doubt there's maps of here, but just google haven't gotten round to putting everything on the database this system uses.
Or something...

Winters

Eh no ..

Its more because they bought the company that did mapping in America.

Wertz

well obviously they're going to do the US first, since that's where their biggest market for this type of system is, but surely they'll be doing the rest of the planet....or at least the inhabited bits.

b3t4

I have been using that website extensively to plan my holiday in America this June. It's a god send. Extremely user friendly and very detailed. The colours are pretty and I like the bubbles as well

A.

Goodshape

The satelite stuff is pretty cool. The detail in New York, for example, is amazing.

DrIndy

www.dto.ie

Go to Journey Planner - gives the best route in and about dublin and also gives satelite views if you magnify enough!

Shrimp

Thats cool, I've been messing around on it for ages..

herobear

DrIndy wrote:

www.dto.ie

Go to Journey Planner - gives the best route in and about dublin and also gives satelite views if you magnify enough!

i found my house
except whenever the actual satellite photo was taken my house wasnt built at that stage, ive been living here for about 4 years *shrugs*

DrIndy

It is from a few years ago - the Dublin Buses are still green.....

Pretty cool toy though, stop driving! Get off your arse and walk/cycle!

Damn, thought I could sneak a peak at Cuba there.

impr0v

Am i missing something or where do the satellite photos come into it? All the mapping i'm seeing, while still quite cool and all, is vector based.

aidan_walsh

impr0v wrote:

Am i missing something or where do the satellite photos come into it? All the mapping i'm seeing, while still quite cool and all, is vector based.

*cough*Top right of the yellow/orange bar*cough*

mad m

Thats a great website.I put in my house plus destination and it gave me how many calories id lose if i walked it...

modular

Haha, it says "2005 Google" all over the satellite photos if you look closely enough.

Eoin

myhome.ie have a mapping system in place, and I *think* they have ariel photography for some areas

Branoic

This seems like a semi-appropriate thread in which to post that Google Ireland (Google's European HQ) are currently hiring a load of people in a wide range of different (not just tech-related) jobs.

dearg_doom

Winters wrote:

There are maps of Ireland. I used to work for a company that did it. Pretty much doing what Google are doing now with their maps and being able to txt directions to closeist resturant etc.

Twas a few years ago now though.

Cool, was that iol.ie perchance, I used to use them quite a bit for showing foreign friends where to go in Dublin!

Back O/T:

That's weird, I was just reading some PCmag I bought over Xmas, and one of the news bits was about Google buying this map company!

Romo

Google bought Keyhole a few months back. I think they are going to be rolling out an expanded version over the next few months.

http://www.keyhole.com/body.php?c=popup&h=home&t=faqHome

Bono's Gaff!!!

Any other celebs?

DMC

I just hope for some decent mapping software covering Ireland.
Autoroute was good for Ireland in its 2001 edition, but then it went all poo. Roads missing all over the shop.

impr0v

doodle_sketch wrote:

*cough*Top right of the yellow/orange bar*cough*

ty

Peter B

Anyone know where I would find satellite photos of southern Spain?

Zoned

Brilliant.....a few years old though....

and it gives the number of calories that you use up as well... :eek:

Papa Smut

Papa Smut wrote:

Bono's Gaff!!!

Any other celebs?

White house looks edited somewhere. Also looks a bit pants from the top.