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Google, Earth
Jun. 28th, 2005 10:13 pmGoogle is offering a free satellite map program for Windows.
You can enter in an address, and it will fly you to it. Enter in another, and it will fly you there. It streams the images from the Google servers, so it's bandwidth heavy, but dear god almighty it's a helluva lot of fun.
Note that there's a tilt feature, so you can scope out elevation differences. Of course, that part only works for landscape right now, but there's still something thrilling about zooming across the bay....
You can enter in an address, and it will fly you to it. Enter in another, and it will fly you there. It streams the images from the Google servers, so it's bandwidth heavy, but dear god almighty it's a helluva lot of fun.
Note that there's a tilt feature, so you can scope out elevation differences. Of course, that part only works for landscape right now, but there's still something thrilling about zooming across the bay....
