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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: videoholic on December 14, 2005, 07:13:21 PM

Title: Google Earth
Post by: videoholic on December 14, 2005, 07:13:21 PM: http://earth.google.com/

You guys ever mess with this? Pretty cool. You can start wide where you see the whole earth, pan all around, go wherever and zoom all the way in as far as you could want to go.

Pretty freaking cool.
Title: Google Earth
Post by: (e) on December 14, 2005, 07:28:16 PM: I thought I made a thread of this already.

Google Earth is awesome. It\'s always suprises my friends on how detailed you can get. I spend alot of times just exploring, it\'s very entertaining... :smokin: :laughing:
Title: Google Earth
Post by: Black Samurai on December 14, 2005, 07:36:37 PM: I don\'t trust Google.
Title: Google Earth
Post by: Titan on December 14, 2005, 07:38:59 PM: Google earth is the shit. I use it for planning trips and stuff. Best free map program available. Plus, I can find my house :)
Title: Google Earth
Post by: THX on December 14, 2005, 07:49:03 PM: At first glance it looks like a simple gimmick with fancy animations but that program is actually pretty useful. I\'ve used it to find many restaurants in the DC area

ie- remembered the approximate location of an indian place & wanted to call em for reservations but didn\'t know the name. I found the place on Google Earth with full address, phone number, cuisine type, etc... and we lived happily ever after.

It\'s like browsing through a city looking for a place to eat/tourist attraction without being there. Pretty soon I\'ll never have to leave my house again!
Title: Google Earth
Post by: videoholic on December 14, 2005, 08:14:07 PM: Satellite is at least 4 years old for my neighborhood. Still my old truck in driveway and Logan\'s day care isn\'t built.
Title: Google Earth
Post by: Eiksirf on December 15, 2005, 04:34:50 AM: It\'s neat to type in a city from some foreign country and check it out.

-Dan
Title: Google Earth
Post by: CHIZZY on December 15, 2005, 04:38:23 AM: I can see my old pickup in the lot at my job...
Title: Google Earth
Post by: Cerberus on December 15, 2005, 06:32:37 AM: I\'ve been using it for a while now, with the latest update, they have finally added pictures covering my area (though they are a little less quality than the rest). When I can be arsed, I might add some from my region.
Title: Google Earth
Post by: square_marker on December 15, 2005, 06:50:21 AM: teh old
Title: Google Earth
Post by: Mr. Kennedy on December 15, 2005, 08:04:38 AM: but still teh fun
Title: Google Earth
Post by: GigaShadow on December 15, 2005, 08:40:41 AM: Watered down GIS - not impressed.
Title: Google Earth
Post by: Titan on December 15, 2005, 09:07:12 AM: Quote
Originally posted by videoholic
Satellite is at least 4 years old for my neighborhood. Still my old truck in driveway and Logan\'s day care isn\'t built.

Same with my town. The high school doesn\'t even have any construction equipment or anything and they\'ve been working on the new buildings for a couple years now.
Title: Google Earth
Post by: Cerberus on December 15, 2005, 09:59:05 AM: And mine.

There is a rugby club up the road from where I live that has been there for about at least 3 years. On the satellite view, it\'s just an open field
Title: Google Earth
Post by: Unicron! on December 15, 2005, 10:28:28 AM: I was told that there is a real time one too similar to google earth.You can even see people and cars moving.
Title: Google Earth
Post by: CHIZZY on December 15, 2005, 10:44:04 AM: wow... check out cyprus!

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vhtrc.org%2Ffourplay%2F2003%2Fcoyote-poop.jpg&hash=d4a4baed4dd2678aee744f1c8ea0e11e2d9e148b)
Title: Google Earth
Post by: GigaShadow on December 15, 2005, 11:02:53 AM: Quote
Originally posted by CHIZZY
wow... check out cyprus!

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vhtrc.org%2Ffourplay%2F2003%2Fcoyote-poop.jpg&hash=d4a4baed4dd2678aee744f1c8ea0e11e2d9e148b)

:lmao:

Hey I can actually see Unicron moving around on that map.
Title: Google Earth
Post by: Cerberus on December 15, 2005, 11:16:00 AM: Quote
Originally posted by CHIZZY
wow... check out cyprus!

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vhtrc.org%2Ffourplay%2F2003%2Fcoyote-poop.jpg&hash=d4a4baed4dd2678aee744f1c8ea0e11e2d9e148b)

Now THAT\'S humour!!!
Title: Google Earth
Post by: videoholic on December 15, 2005, 11:19:20 AM: :beer:
Title: Google Earth
Post by: Unicron! on December 15, 2005, 11:32:44 AM: Quote
Originally posted by CHIZZY
wow... check out cyprus!

(https://psx5central.com/community/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vhtrc.org%2Ffourplay%2F2003%2Fcoyote-poop.jpg&hash=d4a4baed4dd2678aee744f1c8ea0e11e2d9e148b)
:lmao: :rofl: :lmao: :rofl:

I admit that was a good one
Title: Google Earth
Post by: Titan on December 15, 2005, 11:48:48 AM: :laughing: Haha. Nice find.