RSSGoogle Zooms In Satellite Map Imagery
By Nate Mook | Published January 24, 2006, 1:21 PM
Google on Tuesday updated the satellite images in its Google Earth software and Google Local search, adding two more zoom levels that provide a close-up birds-eye view of locations around the world. The change comes after Microsoft's Windows Live Local added similar capabilities.
"Now for many areas around the world you can see a lot more detail than you could before," said Google Earth team member Chikai Ohazama. "Take a look at people standing at the gates of Buckingham Palace in London, or jump over the pond and see the Statue of Liberty in New York."
Now anyone can see Bush whenever they want!!!
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|FYI... the pic with my house is pretty recent, the elm tree I cut down this past summer isn't in the picture.
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|Try viewing anywhere in Thailand or SEA...... or rural Australia.... a waste of time.
Glad I didn't buy google earth.
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|I live in Manhattan, NYC and judging by the status of some construction projects, there are a lot of areas (particularly downtown) that are still showing photos over 3-4 years old.
Did they update the actual images, or just the zoom levels? I would've thought Manhattan of all places would've been updated a bit more frequently.
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|Hey! I can see my house from here!
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|The paranoid will start going outside on cloudy days only.
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|hahaha
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|They need more coverage.
try to find Bali or some capital city in Asia, such as Jakarta. and what you get ?
if Google did not have Bali which is nice and famous, do you think it is good enough ?
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|Add high res images of Milwaukee. This sucks compared to Keyhole, which did have high res Milwaukee images!
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|i dunno http://local.google.com/...001078,0.002763&t=k
stuff like that is wierd
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|Ooh, I can spot where they connected two strips of images they took! =D
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|Local.Live.com's birds eye view still wallks all over google.
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|Yeah, but if it ain't available for the locations I'm interested in, what good is it?
;P
So there.
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|And there are alot of areas that google does not have any sat. images where I am, so what good is it.
Franklin Squre, NY I HUGE area google has to sat. images while local.live does
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|Glad I don't live there then... ;P
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|At least 1 1/2 years out of date. The school that went up last year is barely dug out in the sat. image.
Got a long way to go to real-time, I guess... Same season would be nice, though.
Was able to pick my truck out in the parking lot though, so I guess that's progress. I can prove I spent some time here...someday...over a year ago...
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|i wish i can see my face one day via satellite, oh! and real time too.
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|Men in Black style, haha. That'd be sweet.
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|Those cars aren't so blurry anymore.
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|I'll bet the US government is dying to subpoena these searches, too.
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|Yeppa, Big Brother loves to get their hands on anything.
Privacy? No such thing here or anywhere for that matter.
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