Google Earth

[spencer]

Go and get it. Call in sick and play with it for the next few days. you won't be sorry.

It's a desktop application that you download and then surf the world with. I think it was just released today (although I may just be behind a bit) and is the successor to Keyhole. Very cool.

I'm looking at Owl's Head now. Of course it is still subject to the same idiosyncracies of all spatial data, but it allows you to look at it all from a different perspective.

spencer

 

[darren]

The free one has already been shut down.

- darren

 

[spencer]

Bummer...

Is says temporarily. I downloaded it this morning and have been having all sorts of fun with it.

 

[Rivet]

You can use Google Maps for free...

http://maps.google.com/

 

[Blue]

google maps are cool, but I want to get the earth download!!!!

 

[hikingfish]

Google maps

I've personally been having a blast with maps.google.com. I was able to locate current and new appartments, my folks place, grand-parent's place, where my dad works, etc.

It's awesome to see the entire neighborhood all in one image! The park I run in looks so small from outer space

Seeing "La Ronde" (amusement park) in Montreal was especially cool.

While searching for Kilimanjaro, I spotted some forest fires in Africa this morning.

There was a story a couple of months earlier on slashdot.org that showed a picture of a B2 slealth bomber...which was rather controversial, since google should modify the images to remove sensitive information that could compromise security.

Can you post a screenshot of Owl's head on this thread? I'd be curious to see what it looks like!

Fish

 

[Raymond]

And it's not Mac friendly.

 

[Ridgerunner]

World wind

Download Worlwind from the NASA site. It's free...and huge : 165 Mgbytes. But it is an awesome application too that is at the root of the google stuff.

 

[Artex]

Wow! This Google Earth is way cool! Thanks for the link.

 

[dr_wu002]

I was able to download Google Earth at home at around 6:30am this morning. Should I do it at work? Hmmmm...

-Dr. Wu

 

[spencer]

1) Pemi from overhead with Owl's Head in the middle

2) Owl's Head from the east

3) Owl's Head from the west (somewhere below the Franc. Ridge)

4) My house (for resolution purposes)

 

[Artex]

Nice pics spencer! It looks like you might have hit your "Prt Scrn" button on your keyboard to save the pics you posted? You can also go to File-> Save Image, to save just the picture and not have the control features on there.

 

[spencer]

yes, b/c I figured people would want to see the interface. But thanks, that's a good idea.

 

[dr_wu002]

1) Pemi from overhead with Owl's Head in the middle

2) Owl's Head from the east

3) Owl's Head from the west (somewhere below the Franc. Ridge)

4) My house (for resolution purposes)

OMG, stop it! If I download this program at work I'm going to get FIRED!

Dr. Wu (looking at 3-d images of NW Hancock, Boss enters cube)
Boss: Do you have that report for me?
Dr. Wu: WTF!? Get out -- I'm busy!
Boss:

-Dr. Wu

 

[king tut]

i was a bit skeptical about how cool it would be at first, but now i agree w/ the others. this is really fun. i even looked at baxter sp, and it was pretty good detail.

 

[spencer]

Ridgerunner,

thanks for the suggestion of WorldWind. I've been playing with that some now and I think it's even better than Earth. Not surprisingly, the interface is better on teh commercial one (Google) but the data is better on the government one (WorldwWind).

it's more useful to be able to use the DOQs and DRGs and Landsat data.

spencer

 

[patrickbrusil]

what a great program.
I am never leaving my computer

 

[darren]

4) My house (for resolution purposes)

It looks like your septic tank is overflowing. You better get that thing pumped...

- darren

 

[Raymond]

So do all you folks have broadband connections (minimum requirement, according to the site), or can you actually get by with a dial-up?

My PC at work has a high-speed connection, but Windows 98 isn't supposed to cut it.

I did try to download it at home, but after about ten minutes I noticed that my connection wasn't fast enough so I canceled it. If it will work with a dial-up, I'll try again and wait it out.

The Pemi certainly looks volcanic in origin on that first picture.

 

[spencer]

It needs broadband for sure. I'm on T1 and it still takes several seconds to load various data when zooming in.

spencer