boxst

Hello

I've just downloaded Google Earth (here: http://earth.google.com/) and it's really impressive. A bit American oriented of course.



Steve

TopBanana

You can do it all on the web too

Dieseldog

Thanks for the heads-up. Nice app. Really impressive if you spend time in the States

OllyK

Is this pretty much the same as the Nasa North Wind or whatever that was posted a couple of months back? Not calling SIAL, just asking for a functionality comparison

ETA: It was "World Wind" http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthrea...highlight=NASA

messiah

so there's no UK in it then?

boxst

Hello

Yes there is. I can zoom in on my house, but it's fuzzy as they have only loaded the low quality satellite images. You can zoom in on parts of London quite successfully.

Steve

boxst

Here is where I used to work in Hammersmith for example:



Steve

Jamo

iTrader: (23)

how please?

jamo

ChristianR

iTrader: (1)

ditto

Brendan Hughes

Go to Google home page.

Click on "more>>"

Click on "maps"

In top right, click on "satellite"

Then take the picture and drag it to where you want (eg England) to the centre of the screen. Whack the zoom up a couple of notches. Centre again,
then zoom, then centre, then zoom. (If you want, you can just put it at high res and keep dragging, but you tend to get lost).

My house here is perfectly visible. The Sussex one is under a cloud!!

stevencotton

Google maps is pretty good, will be even better when there's full UK coverage.
If you check the north London reservoirs (by Tottenham Hale station) and zoom in you'll see the satellite caught a passenger airliner in one of the photos

ChristianR

iTrader: (1)

http://maps.google.com/

Jap2Scrap

TOP TIP:

Don't get really close to where you want to be then click the symbol between the four direction arrows.

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

Thanks for the instructions Brendan, I spent ages looking for Google Maps on Google.co.uk and getting annoyed because I couldn't find them, d'oh Then I read your easy to use guide

Steve, I saw the airplane There also appears to be a boat going down in Stanstead Lock

Brendan Hughes

Ironically I only found this yesterday afternoon when a guy in the office showed me.

He's showed everyone else this morning, and I think productivity has temporarily troughed...

TopBanana

Some areas are much higher definition than others...

This is where I usually launch my boat:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=50....6451&t=k&hl=en

Cool stuff

stevencotton

I can see the back of my car from here! Must have been taken before August 25th 2004 then

thundertiger

lol, i saw the plane too!!!
really must "do" some work soon!!!

mind you, the "perv" thread has had me looking out the window for 2 hours!!!

BB