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Nasa's World Wind. This is pretty awesome.

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[Mar 23,2007 10:53am - powerkok ""]
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

Like Google Erf, but in real time!!
Takes longer to load, but most Google images are 2 years old or older.
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[Mar 23,2007 10:57am - BobNOMAAMRooney ""]
And you can get every topographical map in the US for free off of it.

Although some of the trails are about 10 years out of date.
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[Mar 23,2007 11:06am - the_reverend ""]
there is no way that this is in realtime.
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[Mar 23,2007 11:08am - powerkok ""]
*way more realer time than Google.
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[Mar 23,2007 11:14am - BobNOMAAMRooney ""]
It's supposedly updated daily, but that's probably only the satellite images.

The aerial photography is either the same stuff as google earth's or slightly newer. Though I haven't used it in a few months since it developed a bad habit of crashing whenever I zoomed out.
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[Mar 23,2007 11:20am - the_reverend ""]
oh hi! time to zoom in on iraq and see where osama bin wehrwolf is.
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[Mar 23,2007 11:39am - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""]
NASA World Wind has never ceased to dissapoint me. :(
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[Mar 23,2007 11:51am - powerkok ""]
ya, it takes fucking forever to get the zoom view, but its cool cuz u can see more updated sat pics.
I like that to scope out my new area.
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[Mar 23,2007 11:58am - BobNOMAAMRooney ""]
Last summer me and world wind were the baddest team when it came to exploiting my office's laminator to make maps better than the AMC's
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[Mar 23,2007 7:47pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""]
The maps of massachusetts are older than Google Earth's right now. Google Earth was updated a couple months ago with "new"er maps.

powerkok, check out http://local.live.com if you haven't already. A lot of places have the "bird's eye view" available. That shit is fucking amazing. When in bird's eye view you can view things from 4 different angles, too.
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[Mar 23,2007 8:33pm - SacreligionNLI  ""]
hi big brother!
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[Mar 24,2007 1:23am - powerkok ""]
WOW that is fuckin awesome, I just saw my new house at 2 never seen before angles!
Thanks.


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