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Cutter
07-18-2005, 05:39 PM
Here is what happens when a satellite captures a flying plane (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.299316,-118.603935&spn=0.005128,0.007467&t=k&hl=en)

See tons of more cool Google Maps links here: http://www.googlesightseeing.com/

Blue Cat Buxton
07-19-2005, 07:17 AM
I love these aerial shots and google earth is just soooo amazing!

moonshield
07-19-2005, 01:14 PM
I really like the one in Tucson Az, the airplane graveyard.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=tucson+az&ll=32.155545,-110.830250&spn=0.014881,0.020262&t=k&hl=en

I wonder how many servers they have running google earth, it is some exceptional technology.

Cutter
07-20-2005, 08:05 AM
Cool, they added the moon http://moon.google.com/

Cutter
07-20-2005, 08:07 AM
Zoom in all the way on the moon, Google rocks :D

MarkB
07-20-2005, 08:34 AM
Saw that on digitalpoint :) Top stuff LOL

Blue Cat Buxton
07-20-2005, 08:34 AM
Ha Ha got to hand it to those google peeps :)

Emancipator
07-20-2005, 09:27 AM
this is pretty cool indeed... i would love to play around with some google maps scripts.. is there an api ?

Cutter
07-20-2005, 10:08 AM
There must be, this site has a link to tons of custom stuff: http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/

You could definately make some money off this, I've already noticed a few using Adsense.

I just found out they added streetmaps for Japan last week. Its funny because everything is in Kanji & the maps have outlines of all the buildings:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=tokyo,+jp&ll=35.677762,139.757853&spn=0.010697,0.015146&hl=en

On top of that, they've added high-resolution images for my old house which I haven't seen in 15 years. I now know its still there!

Emancipator
07-20-2005, 03:30 PM
coo i am going to check this out... god knows i love to tinker :P

James
07-20-2005, 04:27 PM
I always knew the moon was made of cheese.

It sucks that it's only that one square that moon.google.com starts with that is repeated if you zoom out. And it's interesting with how good of satellites we have, we still can't magnify the images enough to see any of these landers.
Better question, is why Google didn't just take ground pictures--I'm sure it's just a short drive from here http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html to the landings.