Hi Betty
Thanks for the program details,the only problem I have is
at 3000 ft everything is blurred and does not get sharp until between 10,000
and 20,000 ft.I had the same trouble with Nasa World Wind ,a similar
program.Of course once you get that high theres no chance of seeing your
house.
I have a reasonable spec system AMD Sempron 2800,512 Mb Sdram,120Gb
harddrive.The only thing I can think of is my graphics card although a
recent Nvidia card it is at the low end of the price range ,so perhaps you
don't get the best results.
regards
Mike Roberts
----- Original Message -----
From: "Betty A. Pace" <bapace2(a)juno.com>
To: <WLS-GWYNEDD-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 11:24 AM
Subject: [GWYNEDD] Google Maps -- Wales & UK
Thanks to another lister:
Try Google maps for area search...New and BRILLIANT, road maps and
satellite views with infinite scrolling in any direction.
An astonishingly intimate view; see fields and rivers in Anglesey,
Liverpool, Iraq,
Western Australia as easy as pushing a button, find the highest point on
Ararat, find your house (though you have to imagine the garden gnomes),
make
the earth spin and stop as you choose. Google Earth.
earth.google.com
for
Windows XP or 2000
http://desktop.google.com/download/earth/ to
download
the application.
"The Fly To feature accepts an address, place name, cross street or
simple
Latitude/Longitude coordinates and zooms you quickly in to the specified
location, typically stopping at an altitude of about 3,000 feet above
ground. From this point, use the controls to zoom, tilt, pan or rotate
the
view.
Checkboxes next to the navigation controls allow you to overlay lodging,
roads, terrain, dining, geographical borders and 3D buildings over the
satellite image. Even more overlays are available using the "layers"
features.
Additional layers allow you to overlay data points of geographic interest
over images."
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