www.earth.google.com

[bradleyy]

Has anyone downloaded this? If you haven't then do. It will give you hours of fun. Type in your address and you can zoom right into a picture of your house from space.  My question is what is the difference between the free version and the pro version ($400) I downloaded both (you get a 7 day free trial)  and they seem to be the same. Are they pretty much?

[Mobius1]

I heard their coverage for the UK isn't so great at the moment, with the really detailed overview (with 3D buildings) being limited to major cities only. Any truth in that?

[lauralane]

Yeah its really only that there is 3D in major cities and a few other things like GPS.  The free version is just as good and a whole lot of fun.

[OBonio]

It doesn't cover Wales very well.....

[alunrw]

Agree with Obonio, you can get the terrain in Wales and the street address being displayed, but a very blurred image - contrast this to New York for example and you can zoom in on cars to the extent that you can almost see their number plates :-)

[Thunderchild]

has anybody seen the nasa World wind yet ? that is similar it can only come down to 10 Km though but there is a comuty that is supporting it and although nasa has got as far as ver 1.31.1 rthe open source team have taken it to 1.3.2 and that has solved some problems. as there is a hoard of users making progress on it it should get much better as time goes by

[alunrw]

Thanks Thunderchild, had never heard of this one before - but just found the website now and will have a look.

[jenstar]

This all sounds very dystopian.

[johntheplamf]

I find it amusing when i can zoom in on the house i grew up, in a small area of Paisley, yet you can't see a bit of Glasgow.

[johntheplamf]

Anyone know if there's a site like this, but in realtime, where you can zoom in and spy on your neighbours?, just out of curiosity like.

[bazwillrun]

yes ! its called the Pentagon, doubt they'll let you use their equipment though, still you never know it might be worth asking

[d0gsb0dy]

Will it run on Win98SE? Says 2000 and XP.

[Aquariel]

There's some great stuff on Google Earth!

E.g. go to coordinates 37'13'52.92 N, 115'48'27.80 W and you will find a very well-known UFO base in Nevada!

[johntheplamf]

And why exactly would they need a runway that long?