nasa gives us the world

sick program, there are all kinds of maps and stuff you can overlay on
the earth. I was just looking at lighting strike data over the
whole world.

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

<span style="color: silver;">Yep. It's a good program. However. Google Earth blasts it out of the water with better controls, smoother movement, higher resolution content (close up), and faster texture loading :smile: http://earth.google.com . The only advantage I have found that World Wind has over Google Earth is it has higher resolutions when you are further away......so if you just want to look at a state or country and not zoom in, get World Wind.....if you want to zoom in and check out your house, get Google Earth. But even if you still want to just see a country, I would still suggest Google Earth, the controls on World Wind piss me off.
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Yes but google earth's satellite image is over a year old, at least according to my house which I looked up.

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It is to my belief that World Wind and Earth pull from the same DB. Even if I'm wrong (I have been before), I would still rather see a crisp image from last year then a blurry blotch of colors from yesterday. The below images are taken from roughly the same angle at roughly the same distance from the ground. You can decide which program you want.

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Sadly, Google Earth isn't for dial up.

I was so interested until that last line.

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Orph, google earth runs fairly well on dial-up. It's not good for
browsing the world at random but good enough for locating places or
roads if you have the time. Try it before you make up your mind.

Google Earth is awesome. You guys need to check out New York City
(it has the actual buildings) and then the Grand Canyon. Two
pretty cool locations.

I always used google earth to look up Cities that people tell me they are from. I like seeing what the surrounding land looks like. for a better idea of what kind of life they live.

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fraggard said:
Orph, google earth runs fairly well on dial-up.

Coolness.

Thanx Frag. :smile:

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heh....i felt like i was peeking in my own windows....sick :dodgy:

Doc B.... :dodgy:

google earth rox....

The area around my house is 4 years old.

earth seems to be mush better for looking around, but I'm really wowed
by all the layers you can put on nasa's program. They have
thermal images, crop growth, weather, current hi-res pictures of
disasters, etc, etc.

it seems more like a reserch tool.

The area around my house is actually pretty blurry. Some sections of
the world don't have the same crisp detail as others, but I don't
mind... Google Earth still kicks ass.

Addicted to Morphine said:
The area around my house is actually pretty blurry. Some sections of the world don't have the same crisp detail as others, but I don't mind... Google Earth still kicks ass.

I guarantee my area of the world is the suckiest... Go for "peace valley, MO" You can't even see any roads...

But i still love Google earth as a stalking tool. lol. Nah, it's grat to see how roads ACTUALLY curve, when you didn't even realize they did when u were driving on them...

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Nickel, you really need to find enough time to run with me for a couple weeks. I can show you places in this here big ol' country that will make your home look like Eden.

Missouri is only ugly up near Iowa. Your piece is fairly nice.

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Orpheus said:
Nickel, you really need to find enough time to run with me for a couple weeks. I can show you places in this here big ol' country that will make your home look like Eden.

Missouri is only ugly up near Iowa. Your piece is fairly nice.

No, I think that my area is REALLY nice, i was talking about the picture quality on Google Earth. THAT is horrible.

THIS is the border of the area I live in. google earth hates me... Not to mention that the photos of my area are from before 1995.

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Nickelplate, try going to Plymouth UK to see where I live roughly. I live up and right about 1km from the city centre (the long strip of pedestrianized road.

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