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2005-09-04, 3:52 PM #1

saberopus

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http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

or for the plain ol' interested.

Quote:

World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there.

Virtually visit any place in the world. Look across the Andes, into the Grand Canyon, over the Alps, or along the African Sahara.

Link to download is in the upper right corner of the page, BTW.

2005-09-04, 3:54 PM #2

Glyde Bane

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http://earth.google.com/ ?

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2005-09-04, 3:55 PM #3

ECHOMAN

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[QUOTE=Glyde Bane]http://earth.google.com/ ?[/QUOTE]

Does Google do 3D?

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2005-09-04, 3:56 PM #4

Glyde Bane

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Yes

"Jayne, this is something the Captain has to do for himself"

"N-No it's not!"

"Oh."

2005-09-04, 4:29 PM #5

Bobbert

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Yeah, but can you rotate to the surface of the planet and drop down into valleys and next to mountains? Does Google have topographic and multiple sattelite images?

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2005-09-04, 6:19 PM #6

Schming

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Ha! You said topographic!

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2005-09-04, 6:32 PM #7

saberopus

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How dandy! Similar programs exist!

2005-09-04, 8:16 PM #8

Glyde Bane

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Originally posted by Bobbert006:

Yeah, but can you rotate to the surface of the planet and drop down into valleys and next to mountains? Does Google have topographic and multiple sattelite images?

Yes.

"Jayne, this is something the Captain has to do for himself"

"N-No it's not!"

"Oh."

2005-09-04, 9:00 PM #9

phoenix_9286

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GoogleEarth also has 3D building models for some cities. Like DC.

Granted, they're untextured, but it's still rather cool.

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2005-09-05, 4:17 AM #10

alpha1

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also, google earth has one textyure layer and other countires also have hihg res coverage.

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