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Old Jun 28, 2005 | 08:33 PM
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GOOGLE rocks my world!
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Old Jun 28, 2005 | 09:15 PM
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I could literally play with that for a few days straight...I found my office building, note the arrow :exnbp:

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Old Jun 28, 2005 | 09:26 PM
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this is crazy shit.
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Old Jun 28, 2005 | 09:28 PM
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my house and my car.

These pic is almost 2 years old...because that tree in our front yard fell around late '03.


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Old Jun 28, 2005 | 11:55 PM
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OMG! im still playin around with this. it bring back memories lookin at my old houses and schools. time does go by fast.

Also, anyone able to find the statue if liberty? i cant locate it.

EDIT* nvm found it
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Old Jun 29, 2005 | 12:10 AM
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Originally Posted by ED9man
That is sweet, does it say how recent the pics are?
1. When were these pictures taken? How often are they updated?

Our images are photographs taken by satellites and aircraft sometime in the last three years. The images in Google Earth are updated on a rolling basis.
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Old Jun 29, 2005 | 07:39 AM
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How is it different than the Google powered Keyhole software?
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Old Jun 29, 2005 | 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by reno96teg
http://earth.google.com/

this is insanely impressive. try it.

here's a snapshot i did on lower manhattan:


very freakin' cool.


how did you get it to look 3d like that? or is it just certain popular areas? i wish i could do my house like that....
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Old Jun 30, 2005 | 04:33 AM
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looks to me that it renders only the more populated areas. there's a "buildings" checkbox, if i remember correctly, that does that for you.
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Old Jul 1, 2005 | 08:31 AM
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it should all be 3d sooner or later, thats why it is beta still and will be for a while
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