The most impressive bit of the Interweb

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Summo

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... is an application called EarthViewer 3D. You can download a 30-day trial version from nVidia and have a look at their website.

It displays a 3D globe and allows you to specify any location in the world and zoom in, using detailed satellite photographs. Most impressive. It moves you around in a very graceful and smooth way.

The detailed information is called from their servers which are under heavy load and takes a little longer to respond than they should. They also seem to have more detail available on major cities and places of interest than in other locations. For example, I could pick out a route across London, but I can barely pick out my home town. Worth a look, anyway.
 
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Moving Target

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It's even more of a blur than in real life.
 
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xane

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Ah I get it, you have to wait a bit for the detail to appear ...
 
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Summo

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Oh yeah, forgot to mention. You have to wait a bit for the detail to appear.
 
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Summo

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Heh heh heh. Bounce the search from London to Moscow to Washington then Berlin and you feel like James Bond. I also have Judy Dench sitting next to me, which helps.
 
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old.Jas

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These guys have been doing this for ages. They combine 3D models with the photos to make it more interesting.

I recommend the Sydney one
 
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Ulysses777

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The official EarthViewer site as a list of places that have hi-res coverage.

The only places that have hi-res coverage outside the US are Tokyo, Kabul and Jalalabad :rolleyes:
 
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Wazzerphuk

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Downloaded it - it was a pile of utter total wank. Summo, hold that head down in SHAME.
 
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Munkey-

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abh. downloaded it and i'm told i have to use a NVIDIA GeForce 2 or above to use it. looks intresting though
 
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Xavier

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crikey, keep up guys - that came out last october!

funny how afganistan is mapped - wonder if that's why there were so many cases of friendly fire in the recent anti-terrorist incursions, dropping bombs before the detailed textures have chance to load :/
 
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Nightchill

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went to download it and discovered I had to fill in a form :/
will c if anyone can dcc it to me instead :p
*apathy*
 

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