Google continues global domination

billf · Post by **billf** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 4:18 am

[quote="Greg Dean";p="513490"]Hey Blaze - get the latitude and longitude of your grandparents' cabin.

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I found it, it's just low res, not much more than blue and green blobs.

BadMonkey · Post by **BadMonkey** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 8:21 pm

Infin8Cyn, I never used keyhole, but it seems to be Keyhole + Google
So you have Keyhole, which sees all, and Google, which knows all.
0_0

DarkWolfe · Post by **DarkWolfe** » Thu Jun 30, 2005 8:37 pm

[quote="BadMonkey";p="514113"]Infin8Cyn, I never used keyhole, but it seems to be Keyhole + Google
So you have Keyhole, which sees all, and Google, which knows all.
0_0[/quote]

So basically if they ran everything with a fusion reactor Google would be all powerful, all knowing, and all seeing making it the new nerd god/idol.......

pgn674 · Post by **pgn674** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 4:38 am

[quote="Rfairney";p="513655"]hmm..

Google wrote:The overlay mode enables you to benefit from Google’s rich, multi-Terabyte basemap

Also, was gonna say before i saw the URL, this reminds me a lot of nVidia Keyhole, which google purchased a while back, they use it for the photo mapping in their map systems.[/quote]

I was using the Keyhole software on demo a couple weeks ago. This Google Earth software is a very close mod of Keyhole. Uses the same maps, overlayed roads, special points, and everything. Biggest diffrence would be the route finder.

FireAza · Post by **FireAza** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 12:56 pm

This is the coolest thing ever! Makes me feel all evil geniusy inside.

edge · Post by **edge** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:05 pm

[quote="Infin8Cyn";p="513716"]So is this Keyhole + Google mod, or what?[/quote]

Well, from what I understand, Google was a part of the Keyhole project (I thought for a while that they were the only ones working on it, which may have been the case), which is now Google Earth. I'm not really sure why the name changed, but I suspect that when they allowed Keyhole to be downloaded, they wanted to get an idea of what interest was out there, and what sort of audiances would be using the software.

Whatever the case, it's damn cool

FireAza · Post by **FireAza** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:40 pm

This is incredible.... I was not only able to find my little town, but the very house I'm in! I can even see my mailbox! I'm speechless, this is truly amazing...

Koreth · Post by **Koreth** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 2:49 pm

The Illuminati are watching you.

HTRN · Post by **HTRN** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:26 pm

They can see you masturbating.

HTRN

edge · Post by **edge** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:32 pm

And quite frankly, they're not too happy about that.

DarkWolfe · Post by **DarkWolfe** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:43 pm

But they are quite turned on you sexy, sexy beast you....

FireAza · Post by **FireAza** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:58 pm

/me starts gyrating hips and slowly stripping off to the "Full Monty" theme
You can leeeeve your hat ooon....

JeppZer · Post by **JeppZer** » Sat Jul 16, 2005 5:12 pm

Well, can see my town, but it's some old satellite shot that gets all blurry below 3000feet or somesuch, I can't see my house! *cries*

EDIT:

67'50'51.55" N
20'20'51.64" E
Elevation 1416ft

keep an eye altidue around 3000ft kthx
Thats about where my snowmobile is parked at the moment.
Just outside the house in other words, now I'm just waiting for someone with a spyplane to get a highres picture of it.

(Another thing, if you can't find it on you first attempt, then go find sweden, zoom in a bit, go north, find kiruna, zoom in, go a tiny bit east, yay, your above Tuollavaara, 127.0.0.1

!!)

Smaointe · Post by **Smaointe** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 2:24 am

I posted this in my LJ but I think I forgot to post here.

All the famous landmarks that I have found, bundled up for your viewing pleasure:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~smaointe/e ... dmarks.kmz

Placemarkers include:
- Sydney Opera House
- Sydney Habour Bridge
- Capitol Building, Washington
- Mt Fuji
- Parliament House, Canberra
- Central Park
- Empire State Building
- Ground Zero, New York
- Statue of Liberty
- The Whitehouse
- The Pentagon
- The Pentagon - damaged section
- Jefferson Memorial
- Washington Monument
- The Coliseum, Rome
- The Vatican
- Mt Everest
- Ayers Rock (world's largest monolith)
- Pyramids - Egypt
- Christ the Redeemer
- Stonehenge
- Vesuvius
- Buckingham Palace
- Loch Ness
- Teotihuacan, Mexico (pyramids)
- The Parthenon
- Hollywood sign
- Disneyland

sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 2:25 am

I just can't believe Google is giving this away for free, considering what Keyhole was charging for it when they were an independent entity...

How the hell do they do it? I CRAVE THIS KNOWLEDGE

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