Gidds
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For those rainy days: you must download GoogleEarth! I am in the process of zooming in on my house! Very amusing in a creepy sort of way 
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My favorite toy!
undrwater
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Helped my wife bring back memories of her childhood in Ames, Iowa.
It's also a neat tool to check out coastline features.
It's also a neat tool to check out coastline features.
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Gidds
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I just zoomed in to Ft. Wetherill enough to see the right cove and the left cove but I couldn't get in as close as I did to my house. Do those poor coves have names by the way? You can't make out the boat ramp or the parking lot. With my house I got in close enough that I think my car was in the drive when the photo was taken. What fun!
Jamdiver
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Yeah it is amazing, I've found my house, dive club and a few of my dive sites using it.
The technology is amazing.
The technology is amazing.
mike_s
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Check out GOOGLE MOON
You can see the surfaee of the Moon and where the Apollo landings were.
Use the zoom bar on the left to zoom all the way in and you can see
the "features" of the surface of the moon.
http://moon.google.com
You can see the surfaee of the Moon and where the Apollo landings were.
Use the zoom bar on the left to zoom all the way in and you can see
the "features" of the surface of the moon.
http://moon.google.com
Damselfish
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how cheesymike_s:
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Tried these:
The Grand Canyon is in high-rez. You can push in on the walls of the canyon and zoom down the sides.
The Pyramids at Giza. Zoom to Cairo and scroll to the sw corner of the city. You can see each Pyramid and where the tomb-raiders broke in.
Tried the tilt with 3-D Buildings turned on? You can fly between them at ground level. Try Waikiki Beach or Manhattan. They're just grey shapes but you get a sense of what it's like from the ground. I read that Microsoft sent camera trucks out at streetlevel and shot millions of digital images in major metro areas so they can map the sides of the buildings for their version.
Try Vegas, you can push in on the Dolphins in the pool behind the Mirage.
"creepy" will be when they get the bandwidth to do it in streaming video....
The Grand Canyon is in high-rez. You can push in on the walls of the canyon and zoom down the sides.
The Pyramids at Giza. Zoom to Cairo and scroll to the sw corner of the city. You can see each Pyramid and where the tomb-raiders broke in.
Tried the tilt with 3-D Buildings turned on? You can fly between them at ground level. Try Waikiki Beach or Manhattan. They're just grey shapes but you get a sense of what it's like from the ground. I read that Microsoft sent camera trucks out at streetlevel and shot millions of digital images in major metro areas so they can map the sides of the buildings for their version.
Try Vegas, you can push in on the Dolphins in the pool behind the Mirage.
"creepy" will be when they get the bandwidth to do it in streaming video....
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