Google Earth
Google Maps lets you explore the world from a bird’s eye view. You can view a lot of Sydney, some of Melbourne and also other areas. For those that know their way around, America and the UK have excellent maps that include names of various places.
To view Google Maps, simply go to machet.com.au/blog/googlemaps.html. If you would like to search for various locations, you can go to maps.google.com.
If you’re impressed with Google Maps, you should try out Google Earth. Google Earth is a great program with better quality images and many more features. Also, parts of Sydney are marked with maps, and a lot of the world is much clearer. Like almost all of Google’s inventions, Google Earth is completely free for the home user. To run this program, you need a relatively new computer (Ideally a PC no older than 4 years or a notebook no older than 2 years) but many computers should work. Google Earth can be downloaded at earth.google.com
To get going and download this amazing program, simply go to earth.google.com.
Update: For a more recent version of the maps, go to machet.com.au/blog/googlemaps2.html
November 29th, 2006 at 3:58 am
Hi All Experts,
Does anyone use google earth images as ground image planes for use in aerial scenes. I know how to stitch them together but are there any tools or tricks to make sure that the images are at the same height, angle and such to make sure they stitch well. I know in the pro version you can get bigger images but im not going to pay for the pro version when i could stitch multiple images together…
December 2nd, 2006 at 9:47 pm
Felix, we have asked the question your asking on Yahoo Answers and you can check back at the post on Yahoo Answers for the reply at http://snipurl.com/13wf0