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August 23rd, 2006, 06:30 AM
#1
Google Earth
Does anybody use it in spare time?(I got a lot right now)
The thing is, I found some pictures in my country(Greece)which are at least 2 years old!!!(Yeah, who gives a s**t about little old Greece anyway...)
I can see they refresh some important points(Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, Grand Canyon etc)I wonder what goes on with the rest of the world...
Have a nice day
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August 23rd, 2006, 06:54 AM
#2
google earth is great little prog however there is so much that has not been imaged which can be frustrating
where i live in the uk has not been imaged yet hopefully one day it will be.
there are some excelent comunity bookmarks
check out area 51 
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August 23rd, 2006, 07:01 AM
#3
there are some excelent comunity bookmarks
check out area 51
Sorry, I'm not following you...
Have a nice day
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August 23rd, 2006, 08:25 AM
#4
Yeah....I noticed they haven't refreshed the imagery of Turtlecrap, North Dakota in a long time....what gives, huh?
The reality of it is that it costs mucho money to position the satellite(s) and process the results. Google Earth is using the data that someone paid for some time ago, but evidently isn't coughing up the dough for newer data.....or the geospatial sats are being used for more prioritized missions.
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August 23rd, 2006, 08:30 AM
#5
That figgers...Does anybody know an alternative?
Have a nice day
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August 23rd, 2006, 02:57 PM
#6
I use it just to travel around cyberly 
my area that I live in is not really been mapped ... you can see it but not at high resolution.
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August 23rd, 2006, 04:31 PM
#7
Unless you have access the latest military images Google is about the most recent your going to get.I would say it probably outstrips many of the major SatNav systems for the latest civilian imagery.
A quick google suggests the Google Earth Community page has information posted when areas are updated.
One poster suggested Google Maps if more up to date in some areas than Google Earth so it may be worth looking if it covers your area.
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August 24th, 2006, 02:19 AM
#8
Yeah well...Google Maps shows about as much as Google Earth does, concerning where I was aiming through my own virtual sattelite!!!
There used to be a similar tool from NASA(most likely it is LESS updated but what the heck!)does anyone recall that one?
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