Google Earth

sterculelum · 28-07-2005 4:59pm #1

Has anyone else seen this? It's amazing. You can see any street in the world. Literally. Takes satellite pics.

http://earth.google.com/

You need broadband though. I definitely recommend tho.

*Angel* · 28-07-2005 5:01pm

Yep, good isn't it? It's been posted here a couple of times.

fade2black · 28-07-2005 5:01pm

indeed it has...but can you really see EVERY street?

weeder · 28-07-2005 5:05pm

no not every street the count of wexford has poor coverage and quality

fade2black · 28-07-2005 5:08pm

i thought you would only look at streets in Uk and USA for the time being

Dinner · 28-07-2005 5:14pm

How big is the file you download?

danniemcq · 28-07-2005 5:17pm

you don't have to download it you can view online

Cungi · 28-07-2005 5:25pm

the setup file you download is 10MB. It helps to have broadband for this

DoctorEdgeWild · 28-07-2005 6:05pm

I've wasted so many hours with this - Excellent stuff and free!

cornbb · 28-07-2005 6:24pm

Google are gonna take over the world. Possibly in a good way. Like a really, really smart non-evil (I hope) Microsoft.

Mr. Presentable · 28-07-2005 7:06pm

Microsoft launched their beta Virtual World a couple of days ago to compete with Google Earth. It's only North America though

magick · 28-07-2005 7:10pm

and minus apples hq

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/25/msn_earth_deletes_aple/

vibe666 · 29-07-2005 5:12pm

my boss spent ages trying to figure out how to block the stream from the office as productivity has dropped considerably since i told everyone about it.

turns out it uses port 80 same as IE, so they can't do much about it, until someone smart enough tells him to block the IP address of the google earth server.

nobody's going to do that tho!

alleepally · 29-07-2005 8:22pm

vibe666 wrote:

my boss spent ages trying to figure out how to block the stream from the office as productivity has dropped considerably since i told everyone about it.

turns out it uses port 80 same as IE, so they can't do much about it, until someone smart enough tells him to block the IP address of the google earth server.

nobody's going to do that tho!

:-) Stupid dumb boss.

delly · 29-07-2005 8:33pm

vibe666 wrote:

my boss spent ages trying to figure out how to block the stream from the office as productivity has dropped considerably since i told everyone about it.

Just do what i did, and intoduce your boss to it by showing them there area. Now he asks me for interesting placemarks. Happy days!

vibe666 · 29-07-2005 9:02pm

already did, that was the thing. he was using it as much as anyone.

Mossy Monk · 29-07-2005 9:14pm

that MSN one is absolute ****e

bounty · 29-07-2005 10:01pm

dublin is very low res

but i can still just about make out my street

the 3d buildings option is great, if only they could get textures for the polygons

in a few decades, google could be streaming high resolution satellite feeds of every meter of the earth, ill bump this thread when it happens

luckat · 30-07-2005 9:16am

How do you use it online, please? I can only see download options.

AdMMM · 30-07-2005 9:50am

I was using it the other day and for some reason I couldnt actually get to see the streets. It was just stuck in the map mode or something and I could only see green and gray and a little icon saying waterford and it wouldnt chjange no matter how much I zoomed in :O

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 30-07-2005 10:51am

It'd be cool to be able to download the full cache... I wonder how big it is.

Real · 30-07-2005 1:13pm

If you go over Florida on it, zoom in on Orlando, then to the end of International drive you can see Seaworld and even the whales in the pools............. coool

I fact I think Ive just seen George Bush tanning himself on the White House lawn too

aidan_walsh · 30-07-2005 1:24pm

Fabritzo · 30-07-2005 1:46pm

That search thing is crap in fairness

aidan_walsh · 30-07-2005 1:49pm

Fabritzo wrote:

That search thing is crap in fairness

But... Its Google... It can't be...

*head asplode*

rsynnott · 30-07-2005 6:03pm

fade2black wrote:

indeed it has...but can you really see EVERY street?

No, they scramble Area 51, the Whitehouse roof, and a few "gated communities", at least.

OFDM · 30-07-2005 7:25pm

rsynnott wrote:

No, they scramble Area 51, the Whitehouse roof, and a few "gated communities", at least.

"Gated communities"???

I hate the Ordinance Survey and their profiteering. That's why ourmaps suck and detailed gps map coverage is brutal.

Munurty · 30-07-2005 7:42pm

This is a brilliant piece of kit. I can actually make out my house on it.

RefulgentGnomon · 30-07-2005 8:03pm

Google are gonna take over the world. Possibly in a good way. Like a really, really smart non-evil (I hope) Microsoft.

They have recently brought out Google Desktop Search and Google Web Accelerator (uses Google's huge cache of websites to speed up your surfing).There is also rumours that they will bring out a low-cost PC, Google ISP and Google's next project may be a web browser similar to Firefox. They have recently hired high-profile developers from Microsoft, Mozilla and Sun Microsystems.
The WHOIS information on www.gbrowser.com shows that Google registered it in 2004:

Registrant:
Google Inc.
(DOM-1278108)
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View
CA
94043 US

Domain Name: gbrowser.com

Created on..............: 2004-Apr-26.
Expires on..............: 2006-Apr-26.
Record last updated on..: 2004-Apr-26 16:46:39

So yeah, they probably will take over the world...
I'm not sure if that's good or bad...

Google Earth

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