Has anybody else have the Google earth program?
That program is so awesome. People that have dial up DONT go there!!!
I dont have it here at home but have it at work. Its satillite images takeing from space for every inch of earth. You can see anything and everything.
Depending on your computer memory, graphics and how the weather is the day the picture is taking from space you can tell what kind of car is setting behind someones house. You can zoom in rotate 360 around your house. You can pic out a rock in the grand canyon (Rock 2 feet by 2 feet ) the images of the Grand canyon is perfect. It is unlimted what you can see.
I program is very large!!!!! Worth to check out only if you are DSL,Cable and sattillite linked.

Yeagh, I went there a few times. It just reminds me i need to spend time in the yard and not ONLY the garage :D Very cool program though!

Dano :beers:

Google earth is very cool! Try jumping from somewhere in the USA to somewhere in Europe, it will blow you away.

It’s a very cool program indeed! You can download it for free.
Google Earth - Home (http://earth.google.com/)

You can tilt the earth and “fly” around. It’s a great way to kill some time. Try flying up the Cascade Range in the Pacific Northwest. I never realized how many volcanoes were there.

Check out this location in Nevada near Area 51. Set your altitude to 12,000 ft.

37˚39’56.94”N 116˚01’29.20”W

There is another one at:

37˚37’40.59”N 116˚50’54.71”W

What do you think these are?

Being able to tilt the earth is the best feature. It give you the ability to see the height of the mountains. If you do a google search for Google Earth Katrina there's some before and after Google Earth shots of the hurricane areas. I also like how it "flies" you from one destination to the other.

That is cool but not as precise and detail as our local county tax map satelite photos. If you're in a decent size county check out their web-site to see if they offer the service.

Yeah, the resolution leaves something to be desired, but hey!....We're not NORAD.

I like it though (especially for free). I'm wondering if you buy the other version, would it be better?

If you really want to have some fun with google earth and you have a Garmin or 1 other GPS manufacture, Check website for name. Pay the 20.00 extra dollars and you will have the ability to down load your waypoints into google earth.
My wife and I just got back from the island of Haiti where we spent 1 week, 35 miles by crows flight southwest of Port-Au-Prince up in the mountians at 3 differant orphanages giving out clothes and doing medical clinics for all the men, woman and children. It was an awesome experiance for sure.
But I have a Garmin GPS 5 and when I landed at PAP airport I marked it as a waypoint and then turned on the trace route function and took the electronic bread crumb trail and down loaded it onto my laptop once we arrived at 1st destination. Then anytime we were at a new location I marked it and we walked (sometimes up to 10 miles aday I would record all my traces and upload them later that night. Now when I load google earth I can see where I was in the mountians and where all the trails are that we walked to get to some of the villages. Very cool...
Another cool thing to do with google earth is if you have marked waypoints on your GPS you can enter the Lan and Lat cordinates and it flies you right to that location. AWESOME stuff for sure.
Yeah, Im a electronics geek... But I always know where I am and what my surroundings are.

Wow, that is very cool. I found the tent I lived in in Afghanistan - 34*56'30.02N 69*15'19.18E Very nice.

Here's another that most of you didn't know was still around. The superstructure from the USS Arizona, sitting in the woods at 21*20'34.30N 157*58'25.71W. We used to fish right next to it, but after 9/11, nobody dares go back, due to the security. Before, you'd get a $25 ticket. Now, probably a prison term. :sad:

That is cool but not as precise and detailed as our local county tax map satelite photos. If you're in a decent size county check out their web-site to see if they offer the service.

Same here. Neither are very recent though. A lot of the Google Earth stuff is from 2001 - 2002. Our local maps are kind of old as well... if I look at one of my nieces' house, it just shows trees.