Google Earth

[RonMac]

Just playing around with Google Earth and found my area now covered in stunning detail. My House, my conservatory, my garden, chairs,
parasols etc etc.

If you have not D/L this yet, go get it, its a fabulous thing to play with.

Just dreaming, but imagine Google Earth mixing with FS Scenery.....that is surely where we go next. Airports that ARE where they are!

[pdjpeter]

yea i got google earth i like zooming in on all major airports

[Dutch64]

It's nice for usa, rest of the world (except some areas) is low resolution....

[WBHoenig]

The problem is that Google doesn't like Micro$oft much. I wish that they'd use Google Earth scenery, though.

[fruitfly]

I prefer zooming out.

[pdjpeter]

most of the uk now is high res including my area of dorset in the south

[samiranks]

you know RonMac i thought about that idea of google earth for fs9 that would be awesome. But it seems like we're getting there.
Megascenery is the closest as of now as far as i can see. But we dont know what the next flightsimulator would do

[Jetsgo]

My review...

NASA World Wind 1.3 is basicly like Google Earth, NASA's got way better high up ariel view's, but Google's got exellent shots of close up
things, like your house and stuff. Neither of them have been updated in the last while, they both do not show the Jumeirah Palm Islands,
which is kind of disapointing. Google's got amazing shot's of South Africa, I've zoomed in on a heard of elephants before, it's amazing,
and I've caught a heard of penguins in the north . I don't know how Google has the technology to have perfect ariel views of certain areas
but NASA doesn't? My final verdict... Google Earth take's less time to set up and load, and is generally very simple comapred to World
Wind. But, World Wind does not have random coulour patches everywhere, where as Google Earth does. Concidering you can zoom in
on a parked Mercades on a ten-lane highway in the United Arab Emirates, I'd give this one to Google!

[RonMac]

I agree Google has the edge. They admit to using aircraft photograph images, along with Satellitte imagery and computers blend it all in.

Another stunning thing is the 360 degree video taken at famous or just interesting points.

In Glasgow, Scotland, we have a famous streetmarket called The Barras (Barrows), and someone has made a 360 of a trader and
his 'barrow'. These steet markets are shown across Europe as far as I am aware.

Brilliant 360 of Glasgow Cathedral (12th C) in stunning quality video. (How do you do 360 pan stuff??)

So, many of the Info points sub menu to video like this.

I cannot make out types of cars in Glasgow, but the google Head Office takes you almost to Tag plate resolution. Stunning.

The ability to alter angle of view is clever. No 3D but to see your house on a flat plane and then Terrain it, gives you accurate (I assume)
Height Above Sea Level data.

Zooming Out/In allows exact Height above ground to be shown from view point....funny to see your house from 0 to 25K!

A truly fantastic Program/Broadband application, that lets us see just what computers in your own house can now achieve. Just a tad
away from my first Sinclair ZX 81, with 1/2 K Ram, that started me off on this long weary and expensive road. Programming for hours a
wee white dot between to lines and calling it Tennis to Google Earth in 24 years.

Now that IS impressive!

[samiranks]

there was a program that was use for flightsimulator that you can actually take picture clips from eg. google earth and upload it to make
scenery i fs9. I wish i remember the name of that program. And if i knew or had time to really know how to do it, I would be surely using
google scenery in fs9. Oh well i guess ill leave it to the experts and keeps spending hundreds of dollars buying payware scenery

[lightrail]

There is a utility that lets you take a flight plan from FS9 and import it into Google earth - so it draws the route, include the climb, flight level
and descent in Google Earth. The program is called Flips.

[pdjpeter]

light trail have u got a link for that?

[SWAFO]

lightrail wrote:
There is a utility that lets you take a flight plan from FS9 and import it into Google earth - so it draws the route, include the climb, flight level
and descent in Google Earth. The program is called Flips.

Never heard of that. Might provide some fun

[fruitfly]

No? It was a winning freeware in the Utilities category for October; it's called flips11.zip:

http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds?1H8H005...tr-all.htm

[samiranks]

http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/file oh i saw that download. Brad im not sure how it actually works but. I dont know if it was something i was
interested in so i never read up on it. I guess i will now



Post Edited ( 12-12-05 18:24 )