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Google Adds Satellite Imagery to Maps
Ant writes "BetaNews reports that Google quietly updated its maps service late Monday to include satellite imagery, a first in the industry... Much of Google Maps remains the same - just with detailed pictures from high-tech satellites instead of standard map graphics. Maps can be dragged to view adjacent areas, which means users do not have click and wait for graphics to reload. Zooming is also instantaneous with the help of a slider placed atop the map." The resolution doesn't seem very high, but the integration is very seamless.
I see that the US is the only place on Earth...
It is somewhat disconcerting to be scrolling around the area where I grew up, and see one half of a lake in full summer splendor, with boats frolicing and surrounded by green hills...and the other half of the lake is frozen solid.
All is Number -Pythagoras.
You are AMAZING. I want your children.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.051735,-116.0338 21&spn=0.125484,0.170631&t=k&hl=en
I can see my house from here! Oh wait - I can see everyone's house from here.
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We'll map your country, but then we'll have to bomb you.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
And yes, I work with Satellite imagery.
I couldn't tell.
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Google is watching.
My first guess would be hysterical paranoia about "national security".
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Is there a "donate" button anywhere? I feel I should be paying them for all their services. Apparently they are doing alright without donations.
A US site favoring sites that serve the US? Whaaaaaa?!?
A little north of that lake. Aliens have invaded. http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=45.110807,-93.54695 3&spn=0.064802,0.085316&t=k&hl=en
For example, this [multimap.com] is where I live!
Whoa. Can you actualy see the shadow of my mouse cursor???
You are more than the sum of what you consume. Desire is not an occupation.
They had to pay whoever provided that imagry for using it, and when the internet advertising bubble burst, that no longer made cents.
Cents, get it? I kill me.
paintball
$10 for the first person to find Area 51!
Good ol' lake Minnetonka. Be sure to cleanse yourself in its waters.
BS! You can't see the map (grayed out), but you can turn on the satellite - and it's visible! I for one see clearly an airfield (looks abandoned, yet there is a plane in the middle of the airstrip, and some vehicles that look like trucks).
I really wonder wh###CARRIER LOST
Victims of 9/11: <3000. Traffic in the US: >30,000/y
Yea I was dissapointed that I could not get an illegal overhead view of the bean in Millenium park
Area 51
Wake up.
Ah, didn't realize that Google's scope was limited to the US. I guess I haven't ventured outside the US on Google Maps until I started exploring the satellite stuff. I guess I figured they'd have the white-outs like they do for Mexico, Cuba,etc.
I guess they figured it was pretty easy to include both of Canada's roads;)
Let's go Hurricanes!!! 2006 Stanley Cup Champions!!!
Cool - I can see my house. Wait a minute... If I'm at work, who is that son of a bitch parked in my driveway!?!?!
Hey, the pictures of Logan must be after July 2003, because that's when my suitcase was lost there, and I just now spotted it - some jackass handler apparently tossed it up on the roof of a jetway.