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Satellite mapping of the entire planet

post #1 of 8
3/10/05 at 4:27pm
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I was reading Wired last night and came across a short article on a satellite mapping program of earth, by NASA, called Word Wind. The pictures made me curious to find it on NASA's site, and suffice to say, it's very cool, and it's free, and you can get it right here if you're interested.
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post #2 of 8
3/10/05 at 4:32pm
Downloading now.

Might be nice to have something like this now that I believe one has to pay for TerraServer.
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post #3 of 8
3/10/05 at 4:41pm
Ta for that Judd, downloading now. I hope I can see my house.
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post #4 of 8
3/10/05 at 5:05pm
I found Osama! Do I win something?


Seriously this looks cool. I'll be checking it out.
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post #5 of 8
3/10/05 at 5:20pm
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So far I've found my house at home and at school, and Area 51 (Lat:37.242, Lon:-115.813), and I've scoped out Tokyo and Hong Kong (although the urban mapping feature is only available for the US).
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post #6 of 8
3/11/05 at 1:48pm
Really cool stuff. If only they mad it compatible for OSX (really, people, is it that hard?)
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post #7 of 8
3/11/05 at 3:38pm
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Originally Posted by g-dude
Really cool stuff. If only they mad it compatible for OSX (really, people, is it that hard?)
You've ever heard of FreeFall for the Mac?

http://www.xtrememac.com/freefall/images/sample.mov
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post #8 of 8
3/15/05 at 5:36pm
I have a friend who works for a company that is trying to catalouge all of these images. a lot of money is being spent on photgraphing places that have already been photgraphed.
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