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- Bigcat1021, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"They should make google earth live in real time"
Impossible until Google launches its own imaging satellites.
Wait - did I just start a rumor? - TedCHoward, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I hate to say it, but Microsoft already has this. Check out local.live.com. Some areas have a "Birds eye View" that brings you in very close, and lets you view the area from multiple images. Here's New York:
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=40.689518~-74.047451&style=o&lvl=1&scene=1915335&sp=adr.1521%20Golden%20Grove%20Dr%2c%20Mesquite%2c%20TX%2075149~adr.801%20E%20Campbell%20Rd%2c%20Richardson%2c%20TX%2075081~adr.792%20Gastonia%20Ln%2c%20Plano%2c%20TX%2075023~adr.4121%20Commerce%20St%2c%20Dallas%2c%20TX%2075226 - spyres, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1---, it's not actually showing you higher resolution images, just enlarged lower resolution ones.
That's simply not true if you compare the higest resolution "earth" will show you vs. the highest resolution you get with "maps" But this only holds true where the addtional resolution is available. Like on the NYC maps. - n00854180t, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Windows Live has much better images than Google Maps, but it's a bit less usable.
- NiLeS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sweetness. Welcome the new googlzon masters :>
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They should make google earth live in real time
- jasontho, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cool, now they just need to release real time satellite images, thatd be cool! Creepy, but cool!
- SystemError, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0looks like san francisco is going to get it
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=san+francisco,+ca&btnG=Search&ll=37.77526,-122.41455&spn=0.001533,0.003573&t=k - jord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0google earth is great.. unless you need to look up directions from a different computer.... on-line mapping is where it's at.... google earth is a fun toy but functionality wise for traveling it's useless
- mesohorny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sucks! can't dive deeper
- panic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1"Microsoft's Terraserver has been around for almost eight years (since June '98), google maps and google earth have not even been around for a quarter of that. http://terraserver.microsoft.com/about.aspx?n=AboutFaq"
True.. kind of.. Yes Terraserver has been around for ages, but Microsoft never promoted it. Now that google is promoting their, Microsoft is having to play catch up. Microsoft only realized the value of their terraserver service, after google exposed the value of theirs. - ishish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i meant to say this is not close to msft's birds eye view :)
- TKDWILSON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"""""what's high-res anyways? we consider some shots from the Hubble Space Telescope to be high-res, but are they really? no way! I don't consider it high-res until you can read my bumper sticker and license plates..."""""
I have a photo from the hubble that is a 116 MB tiff file and another 60 MB jpeg. Maybe your defination of Highdefination is messed up.
Eric Wilson - bruzie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well I was playing around in Google Earth yesterday and noticed that where I used to live in Yorkshire has the high-res images. Just checked the same location on Google Local and they're still the old low-res images.
Amazing. I could see into the back yard of my old house. Disappointed that the first school I ever went to has been demolished to make way for housing... :( - syukton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"if it wasn't for Google Maps and Google Earth then Microsoft wouldn't have even gave 2 sh*ts about satellite images."
The land of the morons called, they want their king back.
Microsoft's Terraserver has been around for almost eight years (since June '98), google maps and google earth have not even been around for a quarter of that. http://terraserver.microsoft.com/about.aspx?n=AboutFaq
Google is playing catch-up to microsoft, not the other way around. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's going to be pretty damn cool if it's going to be high res everywhere
- FullMetalMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good Find!
Diggidy Diggdy Digg!
P.S. Google Earth Rocks! - glitchbit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yea it is weird how we can not zoom in very far into an object 120 light years away, but we can zoom in on an object 10x further to about the same size of the object just 120 light years away. Maybe Nasa is keeping all the good images to themselves.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Google Earth Sucks! I want it in my browser, not a downloaded windows app. All Google Earth does is blow pixel size up."
mmhmm, blow up a pic from maps .. and then check google earth ... I can make out people on the sidewalk clearly now. - pebecker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Eric Wilson wrote: "I have a photo from the hubble that is a 116 MB tiff file and another 60 MB jpeg. Maybe your defination of Highdefination is messed up."
..or maybe yours is. "High-resolution", "High definition", and "image size" are not necessarily related. - neop, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Google Earth does seem to have higher zoom, but you should also take into consideration that Google Earth also enlarges the images, so many times while you're zooming, it's not actually showing you higher resolution images, just enlarged lower resolution ones.
- hometoast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Interesting find actually.
- KC311Man, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Anybody have any luck finding an area that has the new close-ups?
- jochex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0EPIC is coming!!!! (get scared!)
- scanman20, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1New zoom levels are 100ft and 50ft.
- Dr.Gonzo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0^^^^^
in that case, i don't want res - JTMON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Birds eye view rules, discovered it about a week ago..poor google..I'm sure they will surpass soon though...the local.live.com pics are also a lot more recent than the google ones were last I checked..the ones in my area were just taken about 1.5 years ago.
- ihybridora, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0there just trying to beat Windows Live Local which has somethings that google doesn't have. Bird Eye View in different angles and a good quality pictures when upclose.
remember when they were talking about WLL in diggnation. I could see my bike in the image of my house. *my bike is always in the same spot outside. - brucebeh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"cool, now they just need to release real time satellite images, thatd be cool! Creepy, but cool!"
haha, that would be soo cool.
i hope it is at least comparable with microsoft's bird's eye view, but EVERYWHERE! Now that'd be cool. - scot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0richmond, va has some at that zoom level....... now only if it was live video feed...... nah .. big brother .. never give general public that access.....
- dcipjr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Google Earth rocks, so I hope their image resolutions consider to improve. Windows Live Satellite views aren't that great, but the Bird's Eye views are amazing. Still, Google Earth is my favorite.
- t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Umm, MSN Virtual Earth is OK, but it only beats Google in some areas. MSN Virtual Earth doesnt have any hires imagry of South Australia anywhere.
It also doesn't behave properly on anything but IE.
Google Maps could do with some improvement though. MSN Virtual Earth is better in some places.
Google Earth > MSN Virtual Earth > Google Maps - dergachev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is to compete with Microsoft's "Bird Eye View" feature already present for NYC & others at http://live.microsoft.com . That's simply astounding.
- FWConvert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0great, now we can all be big brother
- siouxmoux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Google maps still does not have My Area of San Jose, CA.
- zelig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@dergachev, that seems to be a bad link.
- leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Didn't Al Gore propose offering real time high res satellite images free to everyone? I know it wouldn't have been like live local, but it might have at least progressed a generation by now.
- AlmostEvil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"google earth is great.. unless you need to look up directions from a different computer.... on-line mapping is where it's at.... google earth is a fun toy but functionality wise for traveling it's useless"
Ha! I've been using google earth to find my way around on the trans pennine trail in Leeds & Yorkshire.
It recently got high-resolution images of the whole yorkshire region in the UK. (though not on maps.google.co.uk for some reason)
Take that! I actually use Google Earth for something other than to play with! - vypergts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yay, now I can stalk celebrities at a higher resolution than before :P
- mesohorny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@pacificdave
Get a clue. I didn't say I like MS either. Stop being such a fanboy. Just because I don't like Google Earth doesn't mean I have to like something else. - sykesa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hi-res pics are gerat but if possible I would like to see pics tahts are updated more often.
- ishish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I agree this is way beyond's MSFTs birds eye view
- percyhanna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It seems actually that Google has pulled the extra two steps of resolution. Maybe they didn't have any images ready? Or maybe it was an accident? Who knows. But the max zoom is now back to 200 ft, instead of 50ft. Should have taken a screen shot while It was at 50ft.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0cool, not ill be able to see my RC Helecopter docked at my roof
- ntulip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0check out the google campus - u can count the blades on the AC fans and make and model of cars.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0google earth has better resolution :) i can see my house clearly
- mockstar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0what do you mean "gets ready for Hi-Res Satellite Images" ? where is the press statement from Google? there is one city with higher res pics than it had previously, why do you make the presumption?
- mastercheif, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0 These are just the imiges form Google Earth
- mesohorny, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Google Earth Sucks! I want it in my browser, not a downloaded windows app. All Google Earth does is blow pixel size up.
- jnmlmz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Just don't zoom in to close or you'll get the "don't have imagery for this zoom level" message
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