OT: Google Earth

Anybody picked up on it yet ? Been available since October. Business
section of local paper oozed and gushed about it. Aerial shots from all
over the world so that you can zoom in, route planning, sight-seeing
etc. Freebie with a full-blown version at $400 - latter can be used in
conjunction with GPS equipment. Fascinating.

Do a Google "earth.google.com" - can download and be up and running in
some two minutes.

One caution though, and I must have done something wrong - at one point
my screen froze; Ctrl+Alt+Delete didn't even cure it. Switched-off,
turned back on - Icons were a mess, much larger, and sizing for all
screen displays were also screwed up.

Jimmy

James J. Gavan wrote:
> Anybody picked up on it yet ? Been available since October. Business
> section of local paper oozed and gushed about it. Aerial shots from all
> over the world so that you can zoom in, route planning, sight-seeing
> etc. Freebie with a full-blown version at $400 - latter can be used in
> conjunction with GPS equipment. Fascinating.
>
> Do a Google "earth.google.com" - can download and be up and running in
> some two minutes.
>
> One caution though, and I must have done something wrong - at one point
> my screen froze; Ctrl+Alt+Delete didn't even cure it. Switched-off,
> turned back on - Icons were a mess, much larger, and sizing for all
> screen displays were also screwed up.
>
> Jimmy

If you want a chuckle, do a google on "failure".

Donald

> Anybody picked up on it yet ?

I posted a few ws ago:
 

Donald Tees wrote:
> James J. Gavan wrote:
>
> If you want a chuckle, do a google on "failure".

Think I found my failure. Ran it and it gave a warning message about
Screen resolution needing 1024 x 768. I tried it without - perhaps lack
of resolution screwed up the settings. Snag is to use it properly you
have to go to and fro between that resolution and your normal setting.

I shouldn't have been disappointed because they are aerial shots from
space at least two years back, from all around the world. So depending
upon where the 'shoot' was taken, space or a high-flying 'plane -
obviously you are going to get different degrees of definition. So
zeroing in on my last home, Creech St. Michael, village outside Taunton,
just lots of green, (no surprise for beautiful Somerset) but as you zoom
in just a blur.

I think I could probably locate my bungalow in Calgary, if I can figure
out where it is :-). Calgary has a very distinct shape with the Bow
River running west to east through downtown then dipping south-east. I
can make out McLeod Trail which segments Calgary north to south all the
way down to Fort McLeod pretty close to Montana border. I can pick out
Deerfoot Trail which bypasses the Downtown. Deerfoot starts up north in
Edmonton - different name now 'Queen Elizabeth something' when she and
Phil were here in spring for our centennial as a Province. Becomes
Deerfoot as it nips through Calgary and re-joins the above McLeod Trail
abut five miles south of us. From McLeod I can pick out the new
clover-leaf type intersection, (Canyon Meadows Drive) going west to
east; I can see Fish Cr Park, I can see ..., but where the hell am I
while typing this ?

Don't envy you Howard when you were a fly-boy - trying to get your
orientation up there in a jet fighter.

Jimmy