AWESOME SATELLITE TOOL - computer

[cooky]

Awesome tool. THis was released by google today and is fantastic. Satellite imagery of the entire world - find your house (yes the zoom is that good).

You can measure across land and the water - you can enter GPS marks, etc. In fact you can even tilt your view and get 3d imagery. set up a tour or mark favourite spots.

http://desktop.google.com/download/earth/index.html

the program needs a reasonably powerful computer to run - but still worth checking out

And another one (not as cool, but still good) http://maps.google.com/maps?spn=68.642578,85.517578&t=k&hl=en

[cooky]

measure distance to your destination

[cooky]

F**k it - have a look at your desination

[camsharkman]

Awesome isn't it. This was the site that was Keyhole.com
Which subscription do you have cheap one or dear one?

[troy]

cooky what costs are involved to get this.it mentioned something about paying licence fees.
i am not up with this sort of thing and if i get a huge phone bill or sotfware costs i will get hung.
troy

[camsharkman]

Troy, I paid a yearly fee of $30 when it was keyhole. I guess it's still the same. There's also a pro version for $599 if your keen enough.

[whichway]

I loaded it today, and as far as I can tell, the basic version is free!

Whichway

[Heath]

Will be interesting to see how up to date the images are. On Keyhole the image of my house was at least 4 years old.

[cooky]

As far as I can gather the images are 2005 - only months old - you can have a look at the development on Nelly Bay Townsville - it's pretty much current.

The version I've been playing with is FREE. To upgrade to higher resolution and GPS support (you can plug your GPS in) is $20 US. Now that's pretty damn good.

Ideally you need a 3d graphics card, but I'm running on an old laptop - 1ghz, PIII and it works okay.

The image above of Horseshoe Bay, Magnetic Island is possible when you tilt the image - contours of mountains, etc

[-spiro-]

No more nuddie runs to the pool for me :o.

[Dezzer]

Being a collage of images it seems that some areas have been updated more recently than others.

[Tracker]

I agree with dezzer,redland bay seems a few years out of date. free version has reduced zoom but still good fun. :o

[cooky]

you'll see the different colour squares /sections. THey seem to be more detailed and up-to-date (April 05) - we checked out some construction projects

for you southerners

[stunnedmullet]

Stop stalking people cooky and get back to work.
The mullet

[bugman]

The only problem was - you could see my boat parked in the back yard.

Pity because it hasn't been there for nearly 3 months :'(

[finga64]

excellent, I'm in one of those areas with no diffinition ;D
The new, 'really it's council approved' carport can't be seen.

[Fishin_Dan]

It seems that the download is not working at the moment... Tried yesterday & today, but to no avail...

[Fishin_Dan]

That'd be right.... Tried again now, and it's working!!! ::)