its quite awesome... and one of the best tools I've seen from google !

You can go almost anywhere in the world and the detail is great. ALso users can add their own content, I think.. So it will get a lot better as time goes on

You can get it from here http://earth.google.com/

Heres some screens of it:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v141/who.../googlemap1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v141/whoa182/IRAQUS.jpg

That thing's amazing! Good find!

thats sweet.

very cool

awesome!

other than united state, the other part of the world is not that details. And i hope one day we can watch it live

Not sure if this product has been posted before, but its free to download and try out..... I recommend a look for anyone with broadband.

http://desktop.google.com/download/earth/index.html

Google Earth it is, and see your house quite nicely it can....

Fun program, though it won't show me my house.

At least it won't give me a view of it, I can, however zoom towards it.

I can see my house, and even make out the two cars parked outside......

sucks for me.

Nice program, doesn't look like they have detailed close up images of where I live either, it will only let me zoom in as far as a birds eye view of the whole city - any closer and it's all blurred.

Yes, this is very cool. I'm using it now Can't find my house though lol and it's pretty blurry close up.

I think they have other versions, which are paid for, where the pictures are easier, and even 3d in some spots so you can tilt the picture and get a 3d eyeline.....

However those versions cost more..... I guess maybe I live in an area where there was a closeup satelite shot for some reason.... It obviously isn't because Im a wanted criminal... *cough*

What's your address? I wanna see your house.

Same here SaRu

Sure you're not Subby. I believe you, thousands wouldn't.

An update....this is an interesting site which lets you download already mapped places.

http://www.googleearthhacks.com/

weird....

I found my house...hehe

WOW !!!... i found my house in Portugal... these is awsoem !!!

THEY SEE YOU !!!!!

Great piece of kit Subby and your right, you can Zoom right in on those Aussie Prisons near where you live.

I WANNA SEE!!!!! ubby lemme see your housey, then I can come gatecrash *coff* I mean visit you

A bunch of clouds are blocking the view of my house but I can tell it's mine.

stop teasing me, I'm at work and can't use it!!!!!! I bet there's clouds in my way too, Scotland weather huh?

Hey, I can see my house

Cool. The new house built next door. The big tree out the front of our yard. Awesome

Snowy, Janiel...... No-one wants to see my house....

Not even me...

I can see my town, but not my house

I never knew I lived so far away from the Lough! Its like five minutes away, but it seems so far on the map. Urgh, I can see my 70 mile cycle route I have to do tomorrow...

Sure we do, We wanna know why you really came up with the name "Subtemperate"...

I can't even find my town,which is strange enough.

Shall I look for you Snake, I bet I can find it?

I found my house, but it doesn't look anything like it. I don't even recognize the surroundings.

Shall I look for you Snake, I bet I can find it?

PM out.


I found my house, but it doesn't look anything like it. I don't even recognize the surroundings.

That's because how it REALLY looks like.

Thats because you moved house last week? Snake I will get back to you tomorrow.

Haha! It shows my house as one big dirt pile. It obviously hasn't been updated in a really long time.

And at my old house, no one was home

Today, I've seen this posted on 3 forums that I regularly visit, lol

Pretty neat though. If this is released to the public, imagine what the government must have? I started speaking to someone from NASA about sattelite technology, and as soon as I asked how advanced government surveillance techniques are; he started getting conservative

This is a cool new website from Google. Click on the link, download the free version and you can zoom into anywhere on the planet. In New York you can even put 3D buildings and move through the streets.

Google Earth

I've already tried that its cool I even see my own house

The BBC have a few interesting articles relating to this.

The first is the competition among search engines for this new ‘local search’ technology market. HERE

The second is as an article about satellite imaging and national security. HERE

Both good reads!

I just came across this on The Daily Grail which I get RSS feed from like this site in my Firefox browser.

Dutch Lawmakers Fear Terror Use of Online Maps
By Toby Sterling
Associated Press
posted: 18 August, 2005
12:10 pm ET

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Two members of the Dutch parliament have questioned whether a free mapping program from Google Inc. may help would-be terrorists by providing aerial photos of potential targets.

Google Earth, launched this year, uses overlapping satellite photos to simulate the experience of flying from the stratosphere down to any spot on earth.

The photos come from a variety of sources. Though not all areas are highly detailed, some are so good that people can see details of their own homes, such as a pool or garden shed.

Lawmakers Frans Weekers and Aleid Wolfson read about the software in a Dutch newspaper article that raised the possibility that terrorists could use the program to study government buildings or nuclear reactors. So Weekers and Wolfson demanded answers from the administration.

Justice Ministry spokesman Wibbe Alkema said Wednesday the government was still crafting its response.

Google spokeswoman Catherine Betts said benefits of the software “far outweigh any negatives from potential abuse.”

“Google Earth is built from information that is already available from both commercial and public sources,” she said. “The same information is available to anyone who flies over or drives by a piece of property.”

Similar fears in Australia were quelled after officials said they doubted the program posed any special threat to national safety.