June 30, 2005
Mouthful of Earth
Whenever we have a Hollywood flick like Armageddon or Phone Booth opens up from a top angle shot of planet earth and glides down by gaining speed to quickly narrow down on a busy New York street, we are awestruck. When a piece of code called Google Earth does the same thing in your convenience, you know those flicks are now a part of history.
Google has been talking about their version of Earth for sometime now. Earth is a 3 dimensional mapping tool of the entire earth provided by satellite imagery. It’s only when you download/install and execute the Google Earth you would understand that its not just baffling you with the graphics, it has just eased your life a little more.
Though we know this effort by Google isn't a NASA project of sending manned shuttles to outer space, this effort would touch thousands of peoples lives in the near future.
I just played around the Earth for about half hour and I'm already happy about it. The driving directions using Google Earth is brought about by combining its Maps and Keyhole's 3d imagery of earth. Though some may doubt, I was actually able to spot the bush behind my house.
The more Earth is put to use, the more we know what it is capable of doing. In the days to come, await surprising uses of Google Earth.
Comments (11)
Hey Man,
W'd u be able to send the .exe file of google earth to my e-mail id. coz' googolians have for some reason stopped the service.
thanks
Posted by: korangoo | June 30, 2005 2:10 AM
The resolution when it comes to India is very poor. Will this get beeter if we upgrade to earth plus?
Has anyone checked?
Posted by: arun | June 30, 2005 3:18 AM
I downloaded the file and installed it, but I think google has stopped getting more people to try this beta product. it does not let me login.
Posted by: Nitin | June 30, 2005 4:37 AM
offtopic, LG, went and saw War of the Worlds today, its great. I loved it.
Posted by: Nitin | June 30, 2005 4:54 AM
It is a dream that would soon become reality. Google Earth shows chennai too(Google Maps also now shows chennai). The dream is in "Local.google.com" we type, Coffee powder and Google shows a map from Villiwakkam all possible shops and directions to reach them.. Phew ! wouldnt that be a sight.
Posted by: Keerthivasan | June 30, 2005 6:59 AM
Osama is reading your blog.... :)
Posted by: Osama Bin-Laden | June 30, 2005 7:06 AM
Korangoo, Will try to do that.
Nitin, I downloaded and installed last night. Looks like they stopped providing access. BTW, I didn't read your offtopic comment ;-)
Keerthivasan, I am sure your dream is turning into a reality soon.
Posted by: Lazy Geek | June 30, 2005 7:15 AM
Try the follwoing link to download
http://desktop.google.com/download/earth/GoogleEarth.exe?Submit=I%27m+good.+Download+GoogleEarth.exe
yesterday i tried to download...but it took long time to download...i disconnected....url was there in my cache...lucky...downloading again after seeing here....
Thanks
Maruthiah
Posted by: Maruthiah | June 30, 2005 10:56 AM
Google bought keyhole few months back. This software was developed by them.I had previewed the same when it was keyhole. But it is a bit different now - it has been 'googled'. It does that in style.
Posted by: Sriram | July 1, 2005 7:09 AM
hi
Posted by: bahram | July 7, 2005 6:10 PM
enga ootu maadila kaaya potu irundhu thuni kooda dherinjudhu baaa !!!
Posted by: senthil | July 14, 2005 11:12 PM