Posted on 06/13/2006 8:19:04 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Since Google Earth is satellite photos, you can see things like your house, that airfield in North Korea where they have biplanes out on the tarmac, or some recent (within the last 5 years) bomb craters out in Afghanistan.
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We can agree to disagree. :-)
^^^^^^^^^^^But it's so freakin slow!^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's the microsoft way. You seen the announced system requirements for Vista?
No matter how fast AMD/Intel make their processors, microsoft will find a way to slow things down again.
Dunno. It's probably something I'll never use. It merely has "coolness" factor to it as far as I can tell.
As far as maps go, I've always used mapquest.
Google Earth is light years more advanced over Google Maps. For one thing, you can download dynamic layers and view what you want.
Want to see weather radar over your house? Can't do that with Google Maps. How about real-time traffic conditions?
Earthquakes? Hurricane tracking?
Google Earth is just awesome.
Hell and death! They must've added that feature since I last used it, or relied upon my obliviousness to keep me unaware of its existence.
= )
The new beta seems to work great. It took all my old dynamic layers, etc., and has better navigation tools.
It might have other upgrades that I haven't discovered yet.
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