Google Earth

cool site..cheers Bob 🙂
...can see potential for many wasted hours !!

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Saw this on another Ng and thought some of you might find it more than
interesting...
http://earth.google.com/
You can search almost anywhere on earth and in a lot of places get really
detailed arial photos. I downloaded the free one and have just spent too
much time travelling along the Thames identifying various landmarks (The
Globe, Barnes Wetland Centre, Dorney Rowing centre etc). Have yet to see
what some of my walks look like. :-)

Bob.

gillie said:

cool site..cheers Bob 🙂
..can see potential for many wasted hours !!

"Bob Hobden" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Saw this on another Ng and thought some of you might find it more than
interesting...
http://earth.google.com/
You can search almost anywhere on earth and in a lot of places get really
detailed arial photos. I downloaded the free one and have just spent too
much time travelling along the Thames identifying various landmarks (The
Globe, Barnes Wetland Centre, Dorney Rowing centre etc). Have yet to see
what some of my walks look like. :-)

Bob.

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gillie said:

cool site..cheers Bob 🙂
..can see potential for many wasted hours !!

"Bob Hobden" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Saw this on another Ng and thought some of you might find it more
than interesting...
http://earth.google.com/
You can search almost anywhere on earth and in a lot of places get
really detailed arial photos. I downloaded the free one and have just
spent too much time travelling along the Thames identifying various
landmarks (The Globe, Barnes Wetland Centre, Dorney Rowing centre
etc). Have yet to see what some of my walks look like. :-)

Bob.

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I think you mean 'deferred success'!
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I think you mean 'deferred success'!

An own goal in extratime :-(

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http://earth.google.com/

seems you need broadband and a pretty new PC, I'll store it away
for the future.
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In message <[email hidden]>, Bob Hobden <[email hidden]>
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Saw this on another Ng and thought some of you might find it more than
interesting...
http://earth.google.com/

Has anyone compared this with NASA Worldwind?
<http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov>

Worldwind is a big download and a CPU and bandwidth hog so I won't add
another unless there are some real advantages.

One thing I do like about WW is that, from a geographic location, you
can create a URL like this one for Ben Nevis
<worldwind://goto/world=Earth&lat=56.797636&lon=-5.002772&view=0.25>
that will open WW and take you to a view of the place.
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Has anyone compared this with NASA Worldwind?
<http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov>

Google are not operating on the NASA shoestring budget, and can afford to
license more 3rd party mapping because of it. There is some high-res
imagery around Loch Lomond for example. You can tell apart different cars
in Rowardennan and see trees on Ben Lomond. It's possible to follow the
path visually up to the top ... some armchair baggers might enjoy.

Google Earth has a lot more by way of hillnames, although the spelling is
ghastly, I've no idea why it should be so bad. You can add your own hill
names to World Wind if you're that way inclined, not exactly
straightforward though.

I prefer the World Wind interface, the Google Earth controls seem clumsier
and back-to-front.

I think Google Earth has more in the way of supported graphics hardware.

I prefer the extensiblity and feel of World Wind, but the project seems to
have stagnated lately, and the chances of high-res imagery of the UK
becoming available in it seem remote.

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Goalie of the Century said:

Has anyone compared this with NASA Worldwind?
<http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov>

Google are not operating on the NASA shoestring budget, and can afford to
license more 3rd party mapping because of it. There is some high-res
imagery around Loch Lomond for example. You can tell apart different cars
in Rowardennan and see trees on Ben Lomond. It's possible to follow the
path visually up to the top ... some armchair baggers might enjoy.

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Thanks for the comparison. I see the hi-res maps are available on the
<http://maps.google.com> web site. Presumably the main advantage in
having the system is the fly / tilt / rotate functionality.
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