Satellite Maps on Google. Bad Ass!!

[scottsee]

have any of you seen Google today. they have Satellite moon maps. thats not even the coolest thing. i clicked around a little on google maps and noticed they have an intire satellite world map you can zoom into any anywhere. thats just cool. i've probably spent 2 hours goofing off. some parts dont go as far as others for obvious reasions. but never the less really cool!!

[kjewer1]

I installed GoogleEarth a couple weeks ago. Preeeetty slick...

[cficare68]

Yeah I noticed that about a month ago. It's hella cool.

[MexRocket]

where are the moon maps, I was just playing around with it, and I was doing my American duty and i was looking for bin laden and i was looking at north korea, but the pictures background said copyright and the year was 2000 weird huh?

[drewh4386]

Originally Posted by MexRocket

but the pictures background said copyright and the year was 2000 weird huh?

yes. i think they only update the most frequently visited/interesting points of attractions.

[Gsx_hooptie]

Originally Posted by 95 GSXracer

I installed GoogleEarth a couple weeks ago. Preeeetty slick...

It made my week.

City areas have better resolution than the country, but I can literally make out every house I ever lived in. It's almost as if I expect to see people I know. A little scary. If this is the civilian accessable stuff, what does the government have?

Interesting notes:
I checked out Iraq, didn't find any WMD.
Some areas are blacked out, such as military bases and "area 51."
The pictures are a collage over a large time period. Some I've noticed are over five years old (where I work), while others are much more recent (where I used to live).

[l_eclipse_l]

The detail on those maps is incredible. Excellent feature Google!

[scottsee]

Google Earth: Absolutly incredable!!!!

i was only talking about the maps they have. i didn't know anything about that. i downloaded it last night around 10:30pm and played with it untell 2:30am. way after this kids bed time!

I installed it on my computer at work and have been showing everyone here. no one i know had ever heard of it. they were all dumbfounded by the program. Flat out cool... terrorists dream

[macder]

This app is originally called "Keyhole". I realized this after downloading the google version since it is exactly the same. Allthough, looks like google added more sat images to it, in this one I can see my car in the driveway, unfortunetly it's just a red blur.

[drdisque]

Area 51 isn't blocked out, you just can't see very much because the resolution is poor (which is normal for the middle of nowhere) you can look up the lat-lon of various points of interest at Area 51 and put them into google.

[Nayr747]

There were some other sites that did this a couple years ago. Globeexploer was one, but after awhile it put its logo all over the images so you could hardly see anything. There were some others but I forgot what they're called. If you guys read that creepy cult house thread on dsmtalk, they used one of these to put up images of the house. It was damn creepy! They're also useful for trying to find good paintball areas, lol.

Edit: After looking at side-by-side images of GlobeXplorer and Google, globexplorer has MUCH better images, especially at the closest setting and in rural areas. But it's damn logo is in the way and the image area is about half as big as google's.