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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Sandwich on October 09, 2005, 04:42:06 am
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http://maps.a9.com/?ypLoc=San%20Diego,%20CA
It integrates Mapquest street maps with geolocated photographs taken along city streets. It's cool. And scary. :eek2:
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I'd like it better if it was combined with Google Maps instead of Mapquest.
Google Maps > *
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I remember seeing a live camera feed on some website of an intersection that I go to every other day. I can't remember what site it was now.
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There's a slight difference between a live camera feed of a fixed spot, and shots of either side of most of the streets in a city, integrated into a map.
And Mik, until one of these online mapping services offers a roadmap of Israel, I don't care. :p
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well, there are only a handful of photos from my area on that site. :p
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Yeah, I can see that, Sandwich.
I'm already looking into helping Google. get the stuff they need for Adelaide Australia. I can't live without my Google Maps. :D
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I've never used Google Maps myself, but I have had a lot of fun playing around with NASA's World Wind (http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/index.html), which features 3D terrain. Kind of fun zooming in from a hemispherical view to a USGS view of your dorm complex. :)
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Originally posted by Mongoose
I've never used Google Maps myself, but I have had a lot of fun playing around with NASA's World Wind (http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/index.html), which features 3D terrain. Kind of fun zooming in from a hemispherical view to a USGS view of your dorm complex. :)
WorldWind and Google Earth (also a downloadable application) are sort of like Linux vs. Mac OSX. :p WorldWind has a ton of features and possibilities, is open source, etc. Google Earth just works (and isn't a ~150Mb download, either). I used to be sold on WorldWind until Google Earth; I still prefer the mouse control system Worldwind uses (more sensible). But Google Earth is just cooler. ;)
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Explain, Mike. I've never heard of WorldWind before. How is the mouse control different?
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With Google Earth, to rotate the view in 3D space, you use the middle-mouse button. You also need to imagine that there is an invisible sphere, about 60% of the size of the viewport, which your cursor is dragging and rotating, which in turn rotates the globe. This is confusing and not the most intuitive, since it effectively reverses the direction of rotation depending on whether the cursor is in the northern or the southern hemisphere of the sphere (not the globe we see on-screen).
Worldwind is more like the controls of a 3D strategy game. Right-click (easier to press and hold IMO) controls 3D movement, and the rotation doesn't suddenly reverse direction if you move from one "hemisphere" to another.
The main reason I use Google Earth as opposed to WorldWind is because of the servers - Google's servers are always ready to stream data at decent rates; NASA's servers often seem overloaded. However, despite the 175Mb download that WorldWind is, if you're on broadband, it's worth it to at least check out - it has the advantage of far more pure data at your fingertips - MODIS, LANDSAT, etc etc etc. It's far more... scientifically appropriate. ;) Google Earth just works. :p
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Heh, I <3 the internet, just took a look at my old hometown in California, totally different, to bad they only had a small handful