Comments on: Google Earth!

By: Cody

Cody — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 21:28:33 +0000

Any one have a non official download, if you do itd be great of you to send it to me. codehaef@hotmail.com

By: Mickey

Mickey — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 03:31:23 +0000

Jacob – You were right about Cambridge…it looks amazing! I haven’t seen any others that look nearly that good, but I’ll be sure to post if I do.

By: Billy

Billy — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 06:49:56 +0000

can anyone send me a live link to download google earth, it seems that the official one is down quite some time.

mail me at renzokuken_tan@yahoo.com

By: llghy

llghy — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 06:17:26 +0000

It is a pity that it was closed when I visit just now.

By: jcartledge

jcartledge — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 01:27:50 +0000

My hometown is completely obscured by cloud. Gah. Other than that, very cool, yes etc.

By: jet

jet — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 13:07:21 +0000

Has anyone noticed structures that look like giant solar panels (but many miles wide), but ovbiously aren’t? I’m wondering why they are there and what they are covering up. I’ve seen them in Moscow, Kenya, Bangladesh and other places. A friend says the one I found in bangladesh is blocking out a oil fired power plant.

By: jacob

jacob — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 03:17:52 +0000

I’ve been having a good time seeing what has really hi-res pictures and what doesn’t. For instance, Cambridge Mass has the highest I’ve found—so much so that it’s clear and crisp down to 80 or so feet above the ground—and that pretty much follows the Cambridge city line (for instance, neighboring Somerville isn’t nearly as crisp). Can anyone else find anything comperable to Cambridge?

By: dglp

dglp — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 21:48:11 +0000

Google Earth downloads temporarily delayed

Thanks for your interest in Google Earth, but we’re sorry we can’t offer you a download right now.

Waah!

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:22:26 +0000

John,

The tilt isn’t perfect, but in some cases they’ve clearly tried to add depth. I was looking at pictures of Canberra, and on tilt view the small hills to the north of the city (Black Mountain and Mount Ainslie) stand out quite dramatically. I suspect that is something that only works in detailed shots of big cities though.

By: John Emerson

John Emerson — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:13:28 +0000

It’s not possible to search the Arc de Triomphe or the Eiffel Tower in Paris, or the Statue of Liberty.

When you tilt you just get a more horizontal view of a one-dimensional picture, you don’t get any relief.

By: strewelpeter

strewelpeter — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 12:35:16 +0000

Wow!
Bang goes my 8Gb download.
All work in our multinational office has stopped for the last couple of hours.

the first comment says it all
Coolest.Thing.Ever.

By: Kenny Easwaran

Kenny Easwaran — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:59:58 +0000

I looked at this quite a bit when it was Keyhole (one of my friends pointed out you could get a free sample), so I’m safe from productivity loss at the moment. Though maybe in light of my upcoming travel in Australia, I may spend some more time looking there.

But at Keyhole, they mentioned that some of the geographic distribution of detailed pictures was a result of various contracts they had had. So a CNN contract required them to get high-res photos of all of Iraq. Having spent a semester in Budapest a few years ago, I checked there, and noticed that Budapest had the highest resolution of all of Europe (except maybe London or something?) And I noticed that New Jersey and Massachusetts had much higher resolution than any other complete states.

By: sean

sean — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:27:31 +0000

I like setting the distance to 30,000 ft and pan, pretending to fly in an airliner. Is there something wrong with me?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 04:06:58 +0000

Thanks, CT! I just anticipated a huge decline in my marginal productivity.

Notice how the White House and Capitol are blurred?

Understandable. Just an observation.

By: Silent E

Silent E — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 02:16:52 +0000

This is SO cool… especially when you exagerate the vertical elevations by 2x or 3x – try “flying” over the Rockies or Alps.

I just spent an hour re-living a tour of Italy – walking Rome and Venice, zooming around to spot the seven hills, etc… The Acropolis in Athens is easy to spot, but sadly the resolution on old Istanbul is very poor – much like Shanghai. Skimming the Bosporus at 1500ft is quite interesting, even if the bridges are a little flat.

The Google Earth webpage said the pix were all within 3 years, but I suspect they had to get some very wide-angle shots for total coverage.