anyone tried the new google maps?

[csitenet]

http://maps.google.co.uk/

click on the SATELITE images , and try and find your house i can fully zoom in london but edinburgh still doesn't fully zoom in, funny enough i could find the north korean nuke centre

Very high quality satelite images, Great work GOOGLE

 

[slavahosting]

Google has an application. Google Earch, same stuff but more features, and its on your desktop so I like it better. But this is a cool tool for people with older PC's or dialup connections.

 

[jdk]

Google maps have been around for a while. Google Earth is their new thing. Also, answers.google.com I noticed a couple weeks ago.

 

[mike031]

just noticed that they switched keyhole.com > google earth

guess they want everything under one brand'

it's a really cool tool.. i know a lot of people who use it. trial is free

 

[Domagon]

Google maps are nice and all, but have a serious flaw ... there's no distance scale shown - so one has no idea how far apart two points are...

I, and many others, have sent numerous comments to Google about the lack of distance scale, but to no avail - not sure why, because Yahoo's maps have a distance scale ... is it really that hard for Google to add it too, but on the bright side, Google's over-head aerial view is cool though.

Ron

 

[SouthernTn]

Does it ever take a live picture, or update the pictures it has.. Ive tryed it different times during different weeks and I always get the same picture during the same day.

 

[Domagon]

The images have been compiled from various sources with most being at least a year or more old with some much older than that ... came across images over 5 years old already; some areas have few to no images at all.

Ron

 

[Togoodhlth]

The images have been compiled from various sources with most being at least a year or more old with some much older than that ... came across images over 5 years old already; some areas have few to no images at all.

Ron

For me whenever I check I get the same image of my area which is at least a year old.

 

[jdk]

For me whenever I check I get the same image of my area which is at least a year old.

That is because these are not live images. Think the government would allow us to access a live satellite? Look, its Togooddhlth sitting in his front yard

I tried Google Earth last night. It is pretty neat how it rotates as the Earth rotates.

 

[SirSpider]

Not meaning to bump up a month old thread... :-D

...but the Google Maps API provides some really neat possibilities and is worth mentioning. I have been fooling with locating "closest" hotels to most of the golf courses in the United States. Check out the course detail page on www.GolfCourse.ws. It is still a work in progress, but getting closer to being where I want it to be. For many of the courses there is enough satellite detail to show the layout of the course - sandtraps, greens and all.

Google is really entrenching itself as the 800 pound gorilla... :cheeky: