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kanaka Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Posts: 933 Location: roaming...	Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:57 am    Post subject: Explore your world   The downside: needs broadband The upside: way more cool than Flight Simulator; incredible imagery; absolutely FREE Quote: World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. Leveraging Landsat satellite imagery and Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, World Wind lets you experience Earth terrain in visually rich 3D, just as if you were really there. Virtually visit any place in the world. Look across the Andes, into the Grand Canyon, over the Alps, or along the African Sahara. http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ 171MB download + 6.3MB patch. System Requirements: Windows 2000, XP Home, or XP Professional Intel Pentium 3, 1 GHz, or AMD Athlon or higher 256 MB of RAM 3D Graphics Card nVidia GeForce 2 Ultra ATI Radeon 7500 Intel Extreme Graphics 2 DSL / Cable connection or faster 2 GB of disk space You start at about 10km above the planet. You enter your destination and zoom in. The software retrieves topographic maps from the nasa server as needed, so that's where broadband comes in. Sorry, dialup simply won't do for this imagery.
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sleK Administrator Joined: 30 Jun 2003 Posts: 1017 Location: over yonder	Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 5:10 am    Post subject:   Cool. Downloading now. Hope my vid card can manage it. It's supported but it's listed as only "ok".
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Nofsdad Joined: 06 Jul 2003 Posts: 8380 Location: Central CA	Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 5:11 am    Post subject:   Quote: The downside: needs broadband
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sleK Administrator Joined: 30 Jun 2003 Posts: 1017 Location: over yonder	Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 7:07 pm    Post subject:
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Tigerlily Joined: 06 Oct 2004 Posts: 103 Location: mid-west	Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 7:14 pm    Post subject:   sleK, you lucky bastard. Invite me to your next BBQ.
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kanaka Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Posts: 933 Location: roaming...	Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 8:25 pm    Post subject:   Give us a closeup
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kanaka Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Posts: 933 Location: roaming...	Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 8:31 pm    Post subject:   ^ By the way, cool Area-51 pics there. I think they've pulled most of them, but you can still see Groom Lake, NV
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kanaka Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Posts: 933 Location: roaming...	Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 8:42 pm    Post subject:   I keep forgetting stuff. On google maps, try typing in Hoffman Estates, hit search, then switch over to Satellite mode (top right) and see if you can track Fast Eddie.
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stillthere Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Posts: 1381	Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 11:18 pm    Post subject:   The Google satellite images are way cool.
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sleK Administrator Joined: 30 Jun 2003 Posts: 1017 Location: over yonder	Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 7:53 am    Post subject:   This is about as close as world wind gets without looking all crappy. I superimposed a screenshot from google maps in order to pinpoint my location. The tip of the arrow is literally right where I am. Google maps is cool. I've never actually seen it before.
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