Google Earth

[EricNoah]

http://earth.google.com/earth.html

Anyone seen this thing? I am so hooked on it. I was able to look at the world from on top of Mount Everest, fly through the buildings of Washington and Chicago, take a 360 look inside the Grand Canyon, see parking lots in Bagdad, and could make out my own house. I've done similar with Google Maps but this is a whole other level of coolness. This thing is frickn' sweet.

 

[jgbrowning]

Yep. Awesome.

joe b.

 

[thalmin]

Eric, I hate you. I have a lot to do today, and you go and post this! Now I'll never get packed.

Actually, the lookup tools are really nice. You can show about where the banks are, motels, lots of things. I say about, because the locations sometimes are off by a block or so.
All it needs to be complete would be a button to find FLGSs.

 

[BOZ]

ooh... freakin sweet!

 

[Pielorinho]

My brother showed it to me a little while ago, and yeah, it's amazing. Have you tried tracing your commuting route? There's something very eerie about doing that for me.

The Eiffel Tower is pretty cool, too.

Daniel

 

[Ferret]

It a cool prog, but It has nothing about where I live....Well blurry images. Still cool though.

 

[Steve Jung]

Alas for me, it doesn't work on Macs. They're working on it, but until then I am deprived.

 

[Jdvn1]

Yeah, this has been out for a little while now. It's a really neat program, but I wish it didn't use up so many resources.

 

[Pielorinho]

It's a really neat program, but I wish it didn't use up so many resources.

Ah, what a world we live in, when your computer can hold the entire earth in its grasp, and you wish the earth took up less space!

Daniel

 

[AIM-54]

My technophile colleague at work brought this to my attention earlier this summer, which promptly dropped our collective productivity by about 50%. We're working on a history of OIF and probably spent 6 weeks marking every site of any importance on the map, assuaging our consciences with the idea that it was at least sorta relevant to what we were supposed to be doing.

The relatively newly updated shots of Baghdad are awesome, though.