Google Earth (Release 4 - BETA)

[InTheSand]

Heh! Google Earth is fantastic, unless you live in low-res New Zealand!  :bigcry:

The Microsoft equivalent is pretty good too, with different areas of the UK at least in as good or better resolution than Google Earth. Again, New Zealand is in low-res 320 x 256 x 16 colours!  :roll:

 - Ali

EDIT: Is the Linux version truely native or a Wine/Winelib conversion?

[InTheSand]

Hi,

The Linux version works well! Runs very smoothly (on Ubuntu at least) and picked up my locale / location preferences from the OS, homing in on Nelson, NZ instead of just defaulting to the US!

The new interface is nice too.

AND... New Zealand (at least my area) is no longer in low-res, I can actually see individual houses now!!! Yippeeee!  :-D

 - Ali

[InTheSand]

odin wrote:
New Zealand is too pretty to be viewed through a computer monitor anyway =).

Hehe! But it's warmer to view it that way! It's a bit chilly here at the moment, but that creates lots of opportunities to take nice snowy mountain pictures!

 - Ali