Giles ,'Touched'
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I've played with it a little -- the animation itself is fascinating. I can fly from Kingston to LA to Nairobi.
I was going to say that the Coors Field pic looked similar to the graphics in Flight Simulator.
And it's painfully slow on my 2.8 GHz machine, which may be a function of the display adapter.
Ah, it's working much better now. Very snappy, in fact. I guess it needs some time to stream all that data.
It's much nicer than Google Maps for areas that have the high-res imagery available, like at my office, [link] , because you can zoom in closer than Maps lets you. OTOH, if you want to look at an area that doesn't have the high-res imagery, like where I live, [link] , it's not as much fun. (The annoying part is that I only live a few miles from where I work.)
That is pretty much the coolest thing evar.
You can get pretty close in on Kingston Jamaica, but I realise I don't have much of an aerial sense of the city. I can find my home or office just by drilling down from county-wide maps, though.
Freeways help.
The terrain mapping is fun. The flat images just get wrapped around topography, and locally, that means that it looks like swimming pools are gonna just pour right out.
Just checked out the washington monument and the eiffel tower. Freakin' amazing!
Whee! I did some judicious map comparison, and I found our house in Jamaica.
Awesome. What's poui?
Poui is a large flowering tree. Ours is the yellow sort, and we associate its flowering with the rain. Those are the only trees big enough to pick out.
There's a big puffy solid white cloud over my Hawaii childhood house. And, a bit of a cloud over my sister's house in Kaneohe. Pesky clouds.