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Zoom into Earth from Anywhere part 2 (Maccies included:)
by David Crowson at 20:59 26/07/05 (Blogs::Dave)
Not from Nasa, but from Google

This is quite good....

until it blue screens the XP with a graphics card error (and not much manages to do that these days), but fair play it says it might before you download it....

Still quite good even with that....

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bombholio
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Zoom into Earth from Anywhere part 2 (Maccies included:) David Crowson - 20:59 26/07/05
Re: Zoom into Earth from Anywhere part 2 (Maccies included:) Steve - 05:43 27/07/05
I'm meeting Google in California on Monday. I'll ask them if they need a hand in finishing the Mac OSX version of Google Earth. :-)

Not had any crash running it on my XP machine but then I've got a NVidia 6800GT. One of the coolest things is marking a start and end point for a route then have it animate traveling that route. Rather amazing!

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stevepa

Re: Zoom into Earth from Anywhere part 2 (Maccies included:) David Crowson - 15:34 27/07/05
get us a job whilst you're there , there don't seem to be any in this country :)

I spent some time playing with it last night, the world tour is quite good.

I particularly like the hidden city in Beijing and the Union building in Pretoria (nice gaff:)

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bombholio

Re: Zoom into Earth from Anywhere part 2 (Maccies included:) Bruce Ure - 17:41 27/07/05
Surely for "Maccies included" read "Maccies will be included at some point, if they're lucky". Google say they're working on it.

This is just an implementation of Keyhole though, isn't it?

I say "just", actually it's a damn impressive one. But then you'd expect that from google.

Re: Zoom into Earth from Anywhere part 2 (Maccies included:) David Crowson - 18:20 27/07/05
If you're gonna split hairs then what of the :) at the end of included then....

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bombholio

Re: Zoom into Earth from Anywhere part 2 (Maccies included:) Bruce Ure - 20:04 27/07/05
1. It could very easily be interpreted as many things other than "the preceding statement is untrue".

2. It's a pretty fucking major hair, in that as a statement it is absolutely, 100% wrong.

3. I was just trying to have an intelligent conversation.

Re: Zoom into Earth from Anywhere part 2 (Maccies included:) David Crowson - 22:32 27/07/05
Having a bad day then ?

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bombholio

Re: Zoom into Earth from Anywhere part 2 (Maccies included:) Bruce Ure - 22:36 27/07/05
*Me* having a bad day?

Funny, I was wondering the same about you :-)

Re: Zoom into Earth from Anywhere part 2 (Maccies included:) David Crowson - 22:49 27/07/05
Every day is a bad day :-/

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bombholio

Re: Zoom into Earth from Anywhere part 2 (Maccies included:) Bruce Ure - 23:34 27/07/05
Well, there is that outlook I suppose.

If you fancy a session tomorrow night maybe I can help cheer you up?

Re: Zoom into Earth from Anywhere part 2 (Maccies included:) David Crowson - 23:45 27/07/05
sounds like a plan, your place or mine...

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bombholio

Re: Zoom into Earth from Anywhere part 2 (Maccies included:) Bruce Ure - 02:21 28/07/05
I've another friend coming over so mine by preference :)
Re: Zoom into Earth from Anywhere part 2 (Maccies included:) David Crowson - 02:25 28/07/05
ok, what time....

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bombholio

Re: Zoom into Earth from Anywhere part 2 (Maccies included:) Bruce Ure - 02:29 28/07/05
8:30 should do it. I'll be putting Asha to bed before then.

I'll knock up some food if you fancy? There'll be enough whatever so no need to decide now.

This is extended to anyone else interested, but it's not like a special occasion or nuffink so you won't be missing anything if you don't make it :)

Re: Zoom into Earth from Anywhere part 2 (Maccies included:) David Crowson - 04:53 28/07/05
Cool, food would be verrr nice, a luxury which I can seldom afford ;-p

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bombholio

Re: Zoom into Earth from Anywhere part 2 (Maccies included:) Steve - 05:26 28/07/05
Umm... Sounds rather rude.

What sort of session is this? Does it involve either of you getting naked?

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stevepa

Re: Zoom into Earth from Anywhere part 2 (Maccies included:) Bruce Ure - 09:02 28/07/05
It can do, if you'd like to watch ;-)