Has anyone seen this !!! Its awesome!!!
http://earth.google.com/
Its a moveable 3d map of the earth .. but done with the highest available satellite pictures.
Some areas (Mainly Europe and the States) are so detailed that I can see my own cars parked on my house !!! Its about 1m/pixel
Even Africa.. Its done at a fairly resolution of around 10m/pixel .. i.e. in Nouaddibou you can SEE ! the track for the train !!
IT lets you record your own database of points .. and It surprisingly's got already a good amount of tracks (i.e. the parc' route its already there ,marked as a route).
Even better , Its got also some GPS support , which -supossedly- lets you update in real time the satellite picture overhead you.
The only drawback I see is that earth data can not be cached (i.e. It need to hava full-time Internet connection to work ) But surely that will be fixed also .
Enjoy.
Javier Carrion
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