off topic: earth.google.com

[Brent Fraser]

Flavio,

  Google Earth (not to be confused with Google Maps) is more than just mind
blowing.  In my business (Satellite imagery sales and service) it's world
shaking.

The top ten things I like about Google Earth:

 1. It's free, with upgrades for a fee.
 2. The entire world (almost) is covered with pan-sharpened Landsat (15m
pixels).
 3. All (most?, some?) of Digital Globe's Quickbird imagery is shown (0.6m
pixels).
 4. The user-interface is dead simple.
 5. The fade-in/fade-out of vectors and annotation on zooming is great.
 6. The performance fantastic (like streaming video).
 7. It's 3d. You can tilt the world and fly thought canyons.
 8. It's even more 3d. It will render 3d objects such as buildings.
 9. You can overlay data (vectors and raster) from your computer.
10. You can connect to web data sources (like WMS with about 10 lines of
server-based scripting).

The application: http://earth.google.com (after install, do View -> Play
Tour)
The community: http://bbs.keyhole.com


Brent Fraser


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Flavio Hendry" <flavio at TYDAC.CH>
To: <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 11:55 PM
Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] off topic: earth.google.com


> hi all
>
> as google is obviously a hot issue, have a look at
http://earth.google.com/.
>
> just mindblowing.
>
> Mit freundlichem Gruss / Best Regards
> Flavio Hendry
>
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