Comments on: Not impressed with Virtual Earth http://chrisgonyea.com/archives/2005/07/24/not-impressed-with-virtual-earth/ Thoughts, musings, and junk. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:13:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Mark Chankij http://chrisgonyea.com/archives/2005/07/24/not-impressed-with-virtual-earth/comment-page-1/#comment-7866 Mark Chankij Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:36:36 +0000 http://chrisgonyea.com/archives/2005/07/24/not-impressed-with-virtual-earth/#comment-7866 Have you checked out Google Earth? It's a client application but it is worldwide - check out the Grand Canyon! I don't know how old the pics are (a lot of them look the same as Google Maps) but the interface is really sweet. http://desktop.google.com/download/earth/index.html Have you checked out Google Earth? It’s a client application but it is worldwide - check out the Grand Canyon! I don’t know how old the pics are (a lot of them look the same as Google Maps) but the interface is really sweet.

http://desktop.google.com/download/earth/index.html

]]> By: nikkiana http://chrisgonyea.com/archives/2005/07/24/not-impressed-with-virtual-earth/comment-page-1/#comment-7863 nikkiana Sun, 24 Jul 2005 14:53:51 +0000 http://chrisgonyea.com/archives/2005/07/24/not-impressed-with-virtual-earth/#comment-7863 Well, I definately know the photos from my town are older... I'm guessing the photos that were taken of my area were taken sometime in the mid to late 90s because A. the new houses on my street aren't in the photo and B. my house in the picture is the same shape as it is now which means the picture was taken post-1994 because that's when we added onto the house. The addresses locators are wrong though. I typed in my address, and it tried to tell me my address was one house sooner than it really is. I'm kinda dissapointed with both map systems though... Well, I definately know the photos from my town are older… I’m guessing the photos that were taken of my area were taken sometime in the mid to late 90s because A. the new houses on my street aren’t in the photo and B. my house in the picture is the same shape as it is now which means the picture was taken post-1994 because that’s when we added onto the house.

The addresses locators are wrong though. I typed in my address, and it tried to tell me my address was one house sooner than it really is.

I’m kinda dissapointed with both map systems though…

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