Re: google satellite map

[Frances Del Rio <fdr58@yahoo.com>]

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Jim Ley wrote:
>
>
> > On 28 Jun 2005 17:06:16 -0700, autogoor@yahoo.com wrote:
> >
> >
> > > If you visit maps.google.com and select "satellite", you get a pic. But
> > > it is not <img href="...">,
> >
> > Yes it is, it's simply images, there's no other magic involved, the
> > entire script is pretty simple, the only complicated thing is the edge
> > network of high bandwidth servers that make it work remotely timely,
> > the actual script is pretty simple.
> >
> > Jim.
>
>
> I second that. The bandwidth issue can be immensely hard to solve, but
> Google have got way too much bandwidth to spare. Have you heard about
> Google using their bandwidth to do some caching, thereby speeding up your
> browsing? If you are astounded by Google's use of satellite images, see the
> program they unleashed yesterday:
>
> http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/06/28/google-earth/

I get a JavaScript error when put mouse over image...