Friday, July 22, 2005

This is fuckin' brilliant...

this Google Earth package is. Do yourself a favour. If you have a decent download speed, or are on broadband, download the application from Google Earth (the file is about 20MB in size). Once you've installed it, you can find everything from a full view of our blue planet, right down to a close-up of the hair on your back. Sometimes the focus on the image isn't all that great, but you can find just about any place on the planet. Just zoom in on a town or building, made easy by the controls on-screen. Here's a rough idea of what I'm talking about...this is a picture of our house in Johannesburg, South Africa. The kidney-shaped pool just up and to the left is ours, at the extreme corner of the property, while the building just below the pin is the house itself, and the building just below that is our double garage leading onto the street...

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