I can see clearly now the fuzz has gone

[XP@]

The wonderous god of the internet has once more passed its eye over our home land.

Great swathes of detail have been added all over NZ.

If you havn't already got google earth then get it here http://earth.google.com/ (12Mb)

then check out some of NZ's best roads (it is a work in progress so if I have them wrong complain to me, and I will try and fix)
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=424528&page=&vc=1&PHPSESSID=#Post424528

But it is not quite good enough quality to see my bike park :(

[Quartida]

Haha, and all signs pointed to this being a "police-bitching" thread :D

Pretty cool though. Amazing what we can do these days, huh?

[Lazy7]

i was just checking out google maps online.

wonder what kind of national security threat it is?

i mean - you can get a pretty good layout of all the us government buildings online...

[Wasp]

hmmm its a tad out of date - a few months i'd say.

theres a "hill" at the end of my driveway that they cut the trees down on so it slipped (council logic :no:) and the trees are still there :)

and sadly the stupid satellite is on the wrong side angle of the house to see my bike

[Colapop]

It's how the yanks caught Saddam!

[kiwifruit]

awesome program

[crashe]

I got to check out what all the drama on Google Earth was about yesterday on someone else's computer. We zapped over to the USA and back to Auckland City and West Auckland.

Even checked out my house, my car was parked nicely in my driveway :whistle:


I can't get it on my computer, cos Im using windows 98se.

It only allows you to get it if you use 2000 or XP.

[Sniper]

wonder what kind of national security threat it is?
i mean - you can get a pretty good layout of all the us government buildings online...

Ive heard that somewhere along the lines all importand buildings are at least 500m away from the actual latitude and longitude shown on google earth.

Biff might be able to confirm....... BIFF?

[XP@]

check out Mt Taranaki... the snow misses by about 500m

[sunhuntin]

awesome!!! i saved photos of my house and mums work. also went to canada and revisted places i stayed [small towns, so not very clear, bugger it all!]

[twinkle]

all the detailed pictures are done by plane not satellite, and i wouldn't expect the pics to be updated very often, every few years maybe?

[placidfemme]

yeah I downloaded google earth at work on Monday this week... Got to check out all the places back home that I went to, school, home, mall's and the like... was very exciting for the first few hours. Got to show Sam everything that I've been telling her about for ages...

Harare (Zimbabwe) is much better (to look at with Google Earth) then Auckland. You can see the whole city, all the suburbs and some bush areas...

As for Auckland... I can't even see where I live as it's been covered by a perfectly rectangular cloud since I downloaded it... sad...

[sunhuntin]

yeh...the pisc are a bit old....the house across the road tore down their garage...the pic shows it still there.

[Hitcher]

New Zealand has yet to fully go high res, but it's a great start!

[James Deuce]

Note some idiot riding a CB400 to work. Dates it to Pre-Christmas 2005.

Unfreaking-believeable. I KNEW I should be wearing the tinfoil hat all the time.