off topic: earth.google.com

[Camden Daily]

I can't remember the last time I had so much fun just playing with software.

We managed to export our real estate listings here in Chicago to it. 
Feel free to check it out if you're interested:
http://www2.prupref.com/announce/google-earth.php

Awesome software.

-Camden Daily
Prudential Preferred Properties

On 7/22/05, Brent Fraser <bfraser at geoanalytic.com> wrote:
> 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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