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Re: [News] Google Earth for Linux Has Arrived (Beta)

__/ [ Rick ] on Tuesday 13 June 2006 02:50 \__

> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 02:43:38 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> 
>> http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
>> 
>> Enjoy!
> 
> I have. DLed it.Used it. It seems I was home on the day the satellite took
> the pictures :-)

It was probably the interlaced aerial footage. The (older) satellite
acquisition gets very coarse images that can barely show the (in)existence
of cars. Check out the 3-D (depth), which was not there when Google Earth
was initially launched.

Also see:

http://tysonhy.com/2006/06/comparison-of-google-maps-microsofts.html

Best wishes,

Roy

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