OT: Google Earth

[dougster]

Messing about with this application and just clicked on a TOTALLY random spot in the middle of the US.

Zoomed DIRECTLY in the middle and guess which road Google showed me the way to!!!!!!!!!!!

RANDOM!!!!!!!!!!!

[st3ph3n]

I love google earth. You can pass an hour on it just looking for anything.

[Ken 275]

Dougs,

Great program, but a little bizarre at times. Fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, depending upon the magnification you select. As is life...

For example, I chose Central Square Cincinatti and it listed four areas of interest :

Organisation to Counter Sexual Assault, Mid-America Arts Alliance, National Center For Fathering, & Young Grand-Parents? Club.

Coming to a place near you soon!

I tried charting the fishing locations about the Stockiemuir (Glasgow - Drymen) Road but it got a bit blurry; this may make this area a good place to hide from satellites!

The NASA version is Pi-Ash!

Says it all really.

K.

[TypeRA28]

I agree with u Ken. I thought the NASA one would be best, but it is not worth the 4 hour download wait!!! Google earth is fantastic. Have you used the tilt function, and add 3d buildings. Amazing.

[Ken 275]

Yep, pretty good.

The NASA one is shockingly bad, but their website is seriously good apart from that if you're into these things.

I think the first thing people do is to look for their own house. I know I did! And found the bugger; the grass needed cutting!

I've only got the free version, I believe there is a deluxe revision to which you have to subscribe.

I've also heard that certain areas are blurred out for maybe security reasons eg : Faslane, Rosyth & a certain part of Nevada. Also "Glasgow" Prestwick.Security?

Who's watching you, watching them, watching you?

K.

[dougster]

Google Maps still has unblurred images.

Anyway Amarillo was a little weird!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Glasgow isn't covered but a good bit of Greenock and Loch Lomond is.