Google Earth
 

Have you seen Google's new gadget? It's called Google Earth... You download the program and you get to see many towns from pictures taken by planes and sattelites. It's very interactive, not just a lot of folders with the photos (in fact, google's server streams them to you when you need them)

I'm putting some samples here, so you can see what I mean

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/4...cadosul0re.jpg
Yay, South America!


http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/6...janeiro5lp.jpg
Yay, Rio de Janeiro!


http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/3...arthcsb4sk.jpg
My old school... Yeah, the pool, 3 courts (+a covert gym) and the building. Not that big one on the left, the one with the grey roof, kinda "L"-shaped. All surrounded by trees in the middle of the downtown :D


http://img45.echo.cx/img45/2889/goog...braslia4pl.jpg
Brasilia, our capitol city. You can notice that it is kinda shaped like a plane. That is on purpose. It was built in the 1960s, under the government of Juscelino Kubitschek (J.K. is more simple) in the middle of the country, many say, because in the case of an invasion, Rio de Janeiro (the former capitol) would be too vulnerable, because it is in the coast.


http://img290.imageshack.us/img290/7...aticano3zg.jpg
Vatican City. From the air, you can notice the "key" shape of it. :D

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ive got another app.. but is constructed by nasa.. nasa got detailed of few big cities..but its getting bigger..

they got not so detailed overlay for the whole world.. but if you relaly want to zoom in something you need to do that on cities like washington dc.. still you i can se where my town is.. dont have a link.. or even the real name for it since it was awhile i saw it..

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maybe you are referring to http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ ? the normal resolution is worse than the google stuff, but the black and white usgs data is ~1m resolution I think, too

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Don't have the bother to d/l now, I'm off for the month tonight.

Does it have Church Crookham, Fleet, HANTS, England on it? If so, naughty naughty! I'm not so sure now, but it used never to be on these sort of things. (Military installation.) What about Aldershot?

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Downloaded it. Its quite cool.

When you go to Amsterdam Central Station.... you see my pitstop every day ;)

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fuckin' drug addict ;)

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..Wow, this is awesome!

http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/764...pyhome27tc.jpg

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downloading.. need to compare..

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Scary indeed...
http://racc.bots-united.com/oktoberfest-building.jpg
Munich! The building of the tents for the oktoberfest !!!

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from their stupid EULA:
I highly doubt anyone has actually read it...

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Bah. I made a derivitive work by editing it. I'd better hire the best damn lawyer a tuna sandwich can buy.

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They shouldn't have put a "save" feature then.

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Just tried it.
Over all it is a nice program.

However those guys at google need to go back to school and study on geo/topo graphic.
They marked "The Hague" as Netherlands capital !!! :(

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I love the effect when you zoom all the way in :D

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Yep, turns out that I was right! The moon IS a cheese:D

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Swiss?

[EDIT]
LOL, they skipped Apollo 13... Well, they never landed on the moon anyway :P
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Didn't this used to be called Keyhole?

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No, thats a different company's thing.

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yeah i downloaded it. its kool

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i just read in the news papers there is google moon? :S

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Well then we here at BU was faster:)