SWR:Google Earth

[KMP]

Want to see your favorite vineyard from above? Find out where the nearest wine shops are to your home? Or just want to check out if there are vineyards in the Hunter Valley. You need Google Earth!

The blurb says Google Earth streams the world over wired and wireless networks enabling users to virtually go anywhere on the planet and see places in photographic detail. This is not like any map you have ever seen. This is a 3D model of the real world, based on real satellite images combined with maps, guides to restaurants, hotels, entertainment, businesses and more. You can zoom from space to street level instantly and then pan or jump from place to place, city to city, even country to country.

Get Google Earth. Put the world in perspective.

This really does put the world in your hands!

Mike

[bacchaebabe]

I downloaded this a couple fo weeks ago - it is fantastic but the most detail is reserved for the US cities. Saying that, I can see my house clearly - it's pretty cool.

Check out the Statue of Liberty but I just wonder what time of day the photos were taken - no queues. Las Vegas is good too - the Luxor hotel is easy to find.

[KMP]

The quality of the images seems to be quite variable. We found individual houses in Lyndoch but could hardly make out any real detail in places like Dubbo and Tumut (places where I spent my youth). On the other hand we could find our house here in San Diego and the vineyard of friends near Windsor California, but there was little detail in Davis, California.

Mike

[bacchaebabe]

Yeah, I was looking around the snowy mountains too as I have a place in Jindabyne. You can hardly even make Jindabyne out let alone see our place (which is part of a large resort) but my house in Sydney's inner west is crystal clear. Sydney CBD is very grainy though and you can't really make out any detail.

I actually meant all the overlays work best in the US cities. Turn on hotels in Las Vegas and stand back!

I know you can pay for better versions so I wonder if the detail is better all over in those.

It's still a lot of fun though.

[TORB]

Yep, its wierd. My place between Berrima and Moss Vale in the bush is clearly identifable, even if as a dot and my dads place in Darling Point in Sydney (about 5k from the centre of the city) is not.

[Jersey]

KMP,
Tumut? Small world. That's where I spent the last year honing my shiraz taste buds. Better check out if I can see my house in New Jersey.
Cheers,
Mick.

[Guest]

Yep, its wierd. My place between Berrima and Moss Vale in the bush is clearly identifable, even if as a dot and my dads place in Darling Point in Sydney (about 5k from the centre of the city) is not.

Probably because of the pollution hanging in the air over Sydney CBD.

[Andrew Jordan]

Also you have to wonder how old the Sydney photos are as the new Rhodes shopping centre (Ikea, etc) across the Parramatta river from the Sydney Olympic site is still a piece of dirt according to the photos