Nasa world wind Created 19 years ago2005-10-14 11:39:51 UTC by Daubster

I read about this thing in Computer Buyer and dled it and the only thing I can say is:
It's fuckin amazing!!
It has a 3D engine that can spy on ANY location on the globe!
It's like flying over it!

Their site

It's 45mb big, but believe me - it's worth downloading!
I could make out the location of my house thru it

cool! downloading.

Sounds cool, i'll also download

Some sort of Google Earth?
I heard about something called "NASA Blue Marble" on TV today, must be something like that too.

Downloaded, it's quite good.
Its obviously American orientated though, zoom in on England you get shitty low res pictures, zoom in on USA, you can see cars!

Bloody NASA! I want to see my house!

whoa man! im in uk also, but detail in usa is amazing. nice find!!

Yeah I found it was more USA than UK favoured...
Quite good but Google Earth is better!

I'll give it a spin.

I got this like a few weeks back, i find it useless, but thats jsut me.

It's probably USA oriented, BECAUSE NASA IS AMERICAN. Duh.

You don't smegging say?! Really?

lol, that google ones alright, but not that much better.

Google earth is, in my humble opinion, alot better.

Mainly because it doesn't have NASA in its name.

So agreed! NASA spouts out bullshit on a daily basis. "OMG LOL NO DATS NO A CHEMTRAIL DATS JUST A LENZ REFLEKSHON LOL!!!!!!!!".

it took me a full 5 mins to read that m0p

The same ammount of time it took them to make that excuse

No no, they are too impatient to spend 5 minutes working on a stupid excuse, they prefer to just cough out as many poorly spelt words as possible in 10 seconds.

Keyhole and Google Earth are, in my opinion, far better.

Whats the difference between this and Google Earth?

Lol.. It's not US orientated..
It just needs an internet conncetion, so that it could refresh the pictures to hi-res.. When you zoom in it will refresh the pics and make it all clear... If I could make out my house in Ltu, so can you in your country.. :

The database of satillite photos is a compilation of several sources. This is why you get different qualities and resolutions for each region. If you live in the middle of nowhere chances are you won't be able to see your house or even the immediate area around it. However if you live near a landmark or large city etc. then you can probably get a pretty decent view of your house. My house in the U.S. was pretty easy to find and the resolution was superb. When I looked for my house here in Germany I could barely even make out the town I live near. So as you can see it all depends on your location.

In the help section it says you can see your house including cars clearly but elsewhere is not displayed...

Well I dled Google Earth and I must say that it's much better than World Wind... The photos were much clearer.. :

Google Earth by far! Just zoom in over the Grand Canyon and move around. Its 3D!

Yes but what was this keyhole everyone talked about

Keyhole = Google Earth.

So, uh, can you see sweden?

So, uh, can you see sweden?

Not only can I see Sweeden but I can see madcows cowpies!

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