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accadacca
01-10-2007, 08:45 AM
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/01/google_earth

Screenshot: http://www.gearthblog.com/images/images107/GE4.jpg
Sombeech
01-10-2007, 09:44 AM
Pretty cool.

I'm looking at making movies with Google Earth's Movie Maker, but this is only available with Pro.

There is a 7 day trial though, so I'm going to get all of my waypoints marked for trails, and then bust out a bunch of movies. The purpose will be for directions to trailheads and such.
shaggy125
01-10-2007, 02:55 PM
I've abandoned GE for anything outside a major city, World Wind is so much better, it draws the landscape so much closer to true life, high res images anywhere in the US (yea they are black and white but so what) and you can overlay topo maps anywhere in the US. It will also read many of your .kmz files.
Sombeech
01-10-2007, 03:42 PM
I agree that World Wind has much better resolution, but to be honest, I was getting dizzy from the navigation tools. I'd be going into a spinning frenzy pretty often.

I'm sure you can get the controls down, but GE is so user friendly. If you can take the maps from WW and paste them to GE, you'd have the perfect program.
DiscGo
01-10-2007, 09:47 PM
Did you guys hear that Google struck a deal with Nasa to do Google Moon and Google Mars? I read about it last week.
Sombeech
01-10-2007, 10:02 PM
that'd be cool.
accadacca
01-11-2007, 07:40 AM
They have had this for over a year now. Not sure if they will go into more depth?

http://moon.google.com

http://mars.google.com
DiscGo
01-11-2007, 08:05 AM
What they have available currently is rather disappointing to Google Earth. Google mentioned a couple of years ago that by 2069 there will be a Google Moon, but recently (without announcing a specific date) announced that NASA and Google have struck a deal to bring space exploration to Earth.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ZDM/story?id=2738330

http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2006/dec/HQ_06371_Ames_Google.html
accadacca
01-12-2007, 09:31 AM
We just got around to overlaying an aerial shot we did in the summer. We have our logo painted on our parking structure. Have a look...

You must have Google Earth installed http://earth.google.com