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O/T Google Earth

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>Last week the computer guru at work loaded Google Earth into my computer, I than came home and downloaded a free version of it onto my home computer, and now I am an addict to it.I have been exploring my area of Maine for hours and hours for the past week or so. If you have yet to discover it I urge you to do so as it is quite fascinating. I have followed river, railtracks, power lines, roads, etc, etc, etc,

The thing I like the best about it is that not only can you rotate the screen, but you can also take it from the birdseye view to a horizontal plane, which really makes the landscape come alive.

This is not in real time, but taken from satelites I assume and are only about a year old. You cannot zoom in to the point of seeing great details, but still it isn't to shabby. I can see where my childhood home stood.

Check it out if you get a chance.

I hopeing one day they'll either have better zoom in or even better real time, but for now this will do.

Todd O.

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Joe in a Cleveland suburb

>Its' gonna get better Todd.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15670576/site/newsweek/

Joe

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Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native, Presently Away

>Sounds real good Joe. I was just off exploring as few mintes ago as a matter of fact. It is interesting to see the "lay of the land" in a whole new way. Just as good as if I was flying in a small plane-----air- plane that is--afterall this is an O/T. ;~)

T.O.

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Rob Lee

>I've done this too....

The coolest thing is that you can actually find airplanes in the air...

Take at look at the Ottawa airport west end of the east-west runway.... there's one landing...

Now go past the east end of the same runway, and there's one just taken off (looks like it's in the trees)...

(I've found about a dozen planes....)

Cape Canaveral is cool too...

Cheers -

Rob

(who has too much time on his hands....sometimes...)

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I should add...

Rob Lee

>... that's in Google Maps, satellite view....

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Donald Pierson

>Google and NASA just reached an aggreement for putting NASA data on Google maps. PCWorld.com published an article on the agreement to Monday Dec 18...it is only going to get better! It blows my mind...in 1958 I wrote my first computer program on a computer having vacuum tubes, relays, and a large rotating drum for memory. Oh how far, how fast will it all go?

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Ernie Miller

>Yes there is a C130 taking off in Topeka cool

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And if you add Sketchup to the mix...

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>you can load it with plot maps from Google Earth. Very, very cool.

Pam

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Paul M. in San Diego

>I bought a Garmin GPS based bike computer mainly because of the cool links to Google Earth. I can go exploring new single-track trails on my mountain bike, and the GPS tracks where I went. After the ride, I can download the route to overlay the trails on Google Earth, and see where the side paths went so I can explore where I might want to go next. Awesome tool. And it's only going to get better...

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Mark Nowicki

>In 1970 we were driving through Poland to visit my grandparents. Despite numerous "No stopping" signs, we stopped, because, when you have to go you have to go. Within minutes our car was surrounded by Polish security forces, our documents were seized. To make a long story short , after six hours on the side of the road, we were let go. There was (and still is) a military airport in the area, one which can clearly be seen on Google Earth. The planes using it now are F-18's since Poland is now a NATO member.

It was this incident that convinced my parents to move to Canada.

Mark

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Kevin French

>We're headed to Europe in the fall of '07. I've been doing all kinds of searches. Some locations have better resolution then others. The City we were stationed in, Darmstadt Ger., you can see the color of the cars. 23 years after we left that city has changed a lot.

I've been following the river, RR and roads looking for castle and other landmarks. I read about something in the Fodor guides and check it out on google. I've printed a lot of maps so that once we get the I know were we're going.

Great program, but most of the time I just use Google Maps in the 'Hybrid' mod.

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