Takara_Soong 4 Posted December 7, 2005 Google has launched a new program called Google Earth. It features 3D images of anywhere on Earth. You can literally see your house... at least I can see mine. LOL Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, schools, and more. Here's a link to Google Earth There is a free version plus two upgrades that have to be purchased. The images are the same, it's what you can do with them that differs with each package. Right now it doesn't work for Macs so you'll have to wait if you have one. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MANVERU 0 Posted December 7, 2005 Yeah, it's been out for a while. Do you know if it works on dial up? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LordOfTheBorg 1 Posted December 7, 2005 Yes-sir-e-bob.. I have dial up and have it.. it loads quite well actually, unless you just zoom in on something, right up to the close up.. Of course, i've have it for a while, so i have pretty much the whole earth loaded up.. a nice thing is that once you visit and load a place on GE, it will be cached and you can see it even if ur not connectd to the net.. Be ready for a big download when first getting it.. CAn't remember the size.. think it was 10 mb.. i guess it depends on ur speed.. (i have connnection of 45.2kb/s, and got it in about.. i dunno, an hour or 2) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TrekkieMage 0 Posted December 9, 2005 Yeah, we've got it I've been using it to look at colleges...^.^ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Matt 0 Posted December 9, 2005 I've had it for quite a while now, been using it to look at archaeological sites. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KIMIMELA 1 Posted December 9, 2005 I use it to look for universities Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Takara_Soong 4 Posted December 10, 2005 I'm a little peeved right now. I had to uninstall the program and do a restore on my computer. I had to upgrade a graphics driver to run Google Earth and the upgrade caused a myriad of problems with other software I have. *grrrr* Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrPsychic 1 Posted April 5, 2006 Interesting thing to see on Google Earth. Copy and paste this into the fly to search: 53° 31' 54.25" N 1° 21' 24.08"W. It's a crop circle in the middle of the UK. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tal 0 Posted April 5, 2006 Google Earth now works on Mac OS X (10.3.9 +) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
