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Gambit37
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Post by Gambit37 »

If your computer's up to the job and you have a fast internet connection, you absolutely MUST try this out -- I've spent a good few hours on it and is fascinating!

http://earth.google.com/products.html

Plenty of sites out there with presaved links to places of interest too....
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Post by PaulH »

This is nice! Works pretty well on my 2 and a half year old bog standard computer.

Though for better UK aerials, you cannot beat multimap.co.uk
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Post by Gambit37 »

Heh, this is a cool new application for Google's maps API, combining webcams to check out traffic problems in NYC:

http://www.alkemis.com/default.asp?pID= ... googleMapA

Looks like it's raining. Glad to see we're not the only ones with sucky weather.
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Post by Sera »

hee, ill pinpoint myself i guess :) pitch in with your locations ppl?
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Post by cowsmanaut »

look for North Vancouver.. you might see me on there.. hmm.. nope.. just little grey smudges that look like streets and brown smudges that look like houses.. :P

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Post by Sera »

lol, well i found numerous places for my own enjoyment, my work, my florida villa a few years back, my older houses, my old schools, etc, fun fun :)
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