sukebeboy
07-10-2005, 05:49 AM
This thing is very, very cool. The level of detail you can get down to in the North American cities is amazing. In rural Japan where I live, not so much http://forums.ubi.com/images/smilies/16x16_smiley-sad.gif
but the really great thing is that you can "tilt" the map on the fly so you can drop from an overhead 2D image to a 3D topographical image and move along the map in real time. I had a great time following the Colombia river from the school in BC where I studied English down through Washington state and out to the Pacific.
I followed the Odra/Oder river through Europe for a while too but I found myself constantly checking my six for 190s.
EDIT: because I'm stupid and forgot to include the link.
http://desktop.google.com/download/earth/index.html
and now back to my regularly scheduled glue sniffin'.
but the really great thing is that you can "tilt" the map on the fly so you can drop from an overhead 2D image to a 3D topographical image and move along the map in real time. I had a great time following the Colombia river from the school in BC where I studied English down through Washington state and out to the Pacific.
I followed the Odra/Oder river through Europe for a while too but I found myself constantly checking my six for 190s.
EDIT: because I'm stupid and forgot to include the link.
http://desktop.google.com/download/earth/index.html
and now back to my regularly scheduled glue sniffin'.