flashearth.com— An experimental satellite and aerial imagery of the earth in flash. It uses 8 different sources that you can switch instantaneously.
Nov 5, 2006View in Crawl 4
Well, this is an interesting side-by-side comparison of the mapping services. Google and Ask are the only ones that bother with getting the photos for anything outside of N. America--attempts to find my friend's apartment in Kyoto were met with a bunch of (/) markers on all the others. Granted, I don't expect house-level detail from a NASA weathersat, but the rest are falling down on the job.
I noticed that trend too. In rural areas of Wales, there was basically no coverage other than a blurry overview from Google, but MS had very good quality images - even if my house hadn't even been built on theirs :(
metalshedNov 5, 2006
damn!!! that is sweet
ronaldlewisNov 5, 2006
Very cool find, indeed. Google should consider a flash-based version of Google Earth.
ioannusdeveraniNov 5, 2006
I love it. It is very smooth. I like how it shows alternative satellite images (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, NASA, Ask.com).Nice and fast, too.
halbyrdNov 6, 2006
Well, this is an interesting side-by-side comparison of the mapping services. Google and Ask are the only ones that bother with getting the photos for anything outside of N. America--attempts to find my friend's apartment in Kyoto were met with a bunch of (/) markers on all the others. Granted, I don't expect house-level detail from a NASA weathersat, but the rest are falling down on the job.
trylleklovnNov 6, 2006
It had that then too.
dylanparryNov 6, 2006
I noticed that trend too. In rural areas of Wales, there was basically no coverage other than a blurry overview from Google, but MS had very good quality images - even if my house hadn't even been built on theirs :(
Closed AccountNov 6, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=62.162251&lon=-141.086466&z=10.8&r=0&src=ggl">http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=62.162251&lon=-141.086466&z=10.8&r=0&src=ggl</a>Omg google covered up jack s**t! WTF?