#1215 - 08/20/05 06:24 PM
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This program has been out for a while but I only found out about it this week and I haven't been able to get of it. Its just so much fun, especially for a geographical nerd like me. It basically allows you to have a look at any part of the planet as though you had control of a satellite. Its free and heaps of fun trying to find your street or famous locations and the quality in some places is just amazing. Its great to have a look at the United States cause extra features are available that dont work in other countries like "buildings" which gives you a 3D veiw of the cities like Manhattan. I was looking for the prison in Guantánamo Bay but couldn't locate it exactly. Though I did find the bay itself. I recommend that everyone have a go at this, you can download it here . If you have already had a go at this what did you think?
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#1216 - 08/21/05 04:14 AM
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It's a fun program but it pissed me off that they have nothing for most parts of Connecticut but you can see everything of a little hick town called Granby in Massachusetts...
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#1217 - 08/21/05 08:54 AM
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They show New London in CT which I thought was pretty small. I have a friend that lives near the light house and it was cool that they had that much detail there. If anyone should be pissed off it should be africans who have like no coverage. But then again how many africans have the interent.
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#1218 - 08/21/05 09:19 AM
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the only places i care about are Middlefield, Southington, and Waterbury. None of which you can see detail 
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#1219 - 08/21/05 02:07 PM
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Originally posted by Artic Warrior: They show New London in CT which I thought was pretty small. I have a friend that lives near the light house and it was cool that they had that much detail there. If anyone should be pissed off it should be africans who have like no coverage. But then again how many africans have the interent. heh, ud be suprised. tho i think the coverage is meant for (as u rightly used it) people trying to find out information about somewhere else. cos if u did need to find out something locally, ur phonebook would have the answers. nice post icey.
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#1220 - 08/21/05 02:20 PM
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Thank you 
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#1221 - 08/21/05 06:10 PM
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Well there are parts of Africa that are generously covered like parts of Cairo and South Africa which would have a denser population of users. I can already see this getting bigger and bigger as time continues, I was suprised when I found this of how little people knew about it.
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#1224 - 09/28/05 12:09 PM
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If the future was tomorrow then that day passed yesterday.  Google has added new layers to its sattlelight images of planet Earth. These include: live web cams statistics on population and crime your local EVERYTHING (hospitals, schools, Chinese restruant) My most loved new feature is the National Geographic links in Africa. It has also updated some areas with new sat coverage and named roads in Canada. When they said they wanted information accessible at the click of a button I had no idea it would be this big. 
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#1225 - 10/07/05 12:22 AM
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very nice program just downloaded and had a look very cool.
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#1226 - 10/07/05 09:39 AM
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#1227 - 10/07/05 02:34 PM
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this is the airforce base my dad and step mom used to be stationed at :p Westover Air Force Base near Granby Massachusetts and this is my old house in granby. a whole 8 acers of mostly feild and barn... ![[Linked Image]](http://www.icemyst.com/pic/granby.jpg) and at least with Google Earth i can see where i lived in connecticut
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#1230 - 10/10/05 01:12 AM
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If you download it you can place your own markers among other things. Plus it feels like your controling a sat with the 3D monouvering. I also didnt see anything wrong with the apple HQ on G-Earth.
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#1232 - 10/21/05 08:30 AM
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wasnt meant to triple post. dont know why it did *sighs* and the creator cant delete them  heh. my bad cap.
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#1233 - 10/21/05 10:52 AM
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*Hell hath no fury like a womens anger and damn be the fool who gets in her way* Donate to the "Baby Trey's Digital Camera" fund here .
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#1234 - 10/21/05 10:53 AM
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Originally posted by hyperx: geezus, is the water normally that nice brown color? Were you looking? Usually that is the rivers cause of fish like the [censored] carp! The oceans are quite clean. IceMyst has great powers.
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Okay WTF?
by HenryMiring on 09/27/17 08:45 AM
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