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DaKon
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:25 pm    Post subject: Google Earth Reply with quote

Anyone else downloaded it yet? It is just amazign what you can do and see with it.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 2:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah ive had it for a while and it is really good. I have a lot of fun playing with it and just seeing all kinds of stuff.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 8:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yea i downloaded it for my new house to see it from the skies!!! and see how it looked!!
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 2:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I downloaded the beta back in june. If you go into options you can choose a beter renderer and higher quality textures.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 2:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been using it for a while, and I love it. Good way to break up boredom, and it helps me when I'm trying to remember something.
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 3:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My house is in a very low quality/blurry picture
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 3:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wasnt able to get pictures of my area. Darn you up north in ontario!
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 4:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mulder wrote:
My house is in a very low quality/blurry picture


that is no picture!
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 6:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i love it.. i can use it for maps.. and measure stuff.. but i mainly use it to bookmark places from my past..like.. places where i took my GF
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 12:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

lat=-19.3146358811, lon=121.894186063

Check this out. it is on the western side of australia....hope I have that right..
The long strips of material look like chains!
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 9:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=EarthTourism&Number=45556&PHPSESSID=&fpart=1

Check this out. 3d views. all you have to do is look cross eyed...hard to do but once you get it...wow
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 10:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://users.theville.org/jjudeich/pics/jims.jpg

i found my friends house by mostly rememvbering the state and street he lived on..
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 10:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

those 3d pics are insane!!!
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