Google Earth

Johannes Beus
Johannes Beus
(Author)
28.06.2005

    Google’s purchase of sateliteimage-provider Keyhole is yielding the first fruits: Google released the first version of Google Earth. With this performance– and bandwidth-hungry 3D-navigator, you are able to interactively fly through 3D-pictures. At the moment you can view the USA, Canada and Great Britain. [Download (10,0 MB)]

    Update:

    • Christopher Kunz has a gallery with Google-Earth pictures that are worth seeing
    • D-O R T is offering a download of 20.000 alphabetically listed location-data for the German-speaking area in the Google-Earth-format
    • Spiegel.de is now also reporting on Google Earth
    • Googleearthhacks.com offers a number of interesting coordinates for Google Earth, each sorted by topic
    Johannes Beus
    Johannes Beus
    (Author)
    28.06.2005
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