Google now has satellite maps

http://maps.google.com

D-land:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.812442,-117.919425&spn=0.008186,0.010664&t=k&hl=en

Waikiki:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=21.271462,-157.828109&spn=0.016372,0.021329&t=k&hl=en

Some people on the news were freaking out about privacy concerns, but I'm not sure how much you can see when even the fully zoomed-in image is still a mile across. Kinda cool, though, especially since Mapquest stopped having satellite image links.

Tiki-bot

[edited by hanford to fix the links]

[ Edited by: hanford_lemoore on 2005-04-05 18:49 ]

Bali HaiRestaurant, San Diego, Ca

Mai Kai

Doesn't quite look right. I was expecting to see something more telling.

Ahhh - tiki-bot beat me to this one! Amazing - kinda "big brotherish" - but amazing.

You should check out keyhole ... it's a software program, owned by Google and does the same thing but mapped on a 3d globe with realtime zooming, map overlays, searches, perspective tilt, and full zooms from city level to globe level. It's free for 7 days.

~Hanford

[ Edited by: hanford_lemoore on 2005-04-05 22:32 ]

This seems like a great vacation planning tool ... for finding which hotel is closest to the beach, for example. Or farthest away from your obligations!

It's very addicting. I have discovered a giant lake in town I never knew about; huge railroad yards; a quarry; etc. From the air, you see things you never knew about.

I work for an engineering firm. All the CAD designers play around with this program like it's video solitaire. The funniest thing we found using it was a satellite image of one of my coworkers husband chillin' in his backyard next to the pool in his boxers.

On 2005-04-05 18:52, hanford_lemoore wrote:
You should check out keyhole ... it's a software program, owned by Google and does the same thing but mapped on a 3d globe with realtime zooming, map overlays, searches, perspective tilt, and full zooms from city level to globe level. It's free for 7 days.

~Hanford

[ Edited by: hanford_lemoore on 2005-04-05 22:32 ]

This site:
http://www.shreddies.org/gmaps/
has links to famous landmarks - pix are down due to bandwidth blowout, but the links are good....

PS Google maps currently is HORRIBLE for finding locations. it's suprisingly bad for Google. I'm still using Mapquest for real directions.

On 2005-04-12 11:58, hanford_lemoore wrote:
PS Google maps currently is HORRIBLE for finding locations. it's suprisingly bad for Google. I'm still using Mapquest for real directions.

I agree. When I'm on a map, say, of downtown SF and I type in a street I know is there but can't find, it turns up results in Georgia or somewhere. You'd think it would be "smart" enough to be able to infer that since I'm looking in a particular area, I probably want the street in the same area, or at least give me the Yahoo-type listings of a bunch of locations with that street name.

Tiki-bot

[ Edited by: Tiki-bot on 2005-04-12 12:41 ]

Caliente Tropics!

http://tinyurl.com/4jrzr

Cabazon Dinosaurs!

Dinny the Dinosaur

[ Edited by: Tangaroa on 2005-04-13 17:48 ]

[ Edited by: Kong-Tiki 2006-03-27 05:13 ]

I cant make the links in these postings work, so this might have been covered already. But I'll take my chances; here is the Moai statue from the Aku Aku restaurant enjoying it's retirement in the Sunset Park, Las Vegas, as seen from Google Earth - a great and cheap way to travel. Other cool tiki-locations?

Is all this the same as Google Earth?

http://earth.google.com/

I downloaded this (it's free) and you can go anywhere, type in any address, look at nearby hotels and restaurants, even read National Geographic articles related to the area you're looking at.

The "tilt" function is amazing. I've gone down to ground level at my favorite camping spot in the desert and tilted the point-of-view to look at the horizon, and the views are 100 percent correct.