Google Earth

[SoupDragon]

I know it's been said before but OMG this is incredible. DS1 has to do a poster about a mountain range and he chose the Himalayas. I looked up Everest on Google Earth and you can tilt the picture to get a real 3D image of it. It's unbelievable!

OTOH, if you type in Himalayas you get "Himalayas, 180 Lanehouse Rocks Rd, Weymouth, Dorset" Or at least I did!

i found www.flashearth.com better

i know i love google earth too. if you go south from United Arab Emirates what on earth are the stone/sand looking things? mountains?

The things that look like scales? No idea -they're fab!

I think Google Earth is better as you can tilt the image - can you do that with flash earth? Tilt the image of Everest for example and it's incredible.

Isn't it just - I've spent whole evenings Googling places (sad aren't I !)
LAs Vegas is amazing - you can see people on a golf course as well as all the huge hotels & Dubaii is cool too

another good thing to find are the Nazca lines in Peru

sorry soupdragon my post sounds abit harsh I haven't tried tilting etc but my house and county is on flash earth but not google as it won't zoom in enough so i always tend to look at flash

I love looking into my neighbours' gardens LOL

Oh, I didn't think it was harsh at all furball

But what are those things south of UAE? I can't find out.

they're so weird

i haven't been to las vegas yet, didn't think to, off there now!

I was looking at the Grand Canyon on this last night

3D Maps at maps.live.com is also very good (but unfortunately is IE only)

I love flash earth!

I've looked at the hollywood sign, disneyworld in florida.. loads!

just been looking at las vegas its amazing!

I find it REALLY scary though.. am i weird? sometimes i freak out a bit, i dont know why..

How do you do this tilt thing?

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Just found the same thing - very out of date pictures .. years out of date actually.

You can't look at my house on google Earth as when you type in the town it's just all fuzzy they obviously haven't uploaded the photo's yet.

You can see my dads house though, he lives in a different town, but it's a very old picture about 6 or 7 years old we reckon. You can tell because of what they've done in the garden since then.

Interesting all the same, I remember looking up our hotel in Florida before we went.

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I stopped using it as I had vertigo as it zoomed down to earth lol

My town was crap lookin on it anyway

linnet - try www.flashearth.com - you may get your house on there

Google earth is great for all the big volcanoes. DS was doing them for a school project and we had great fun finding them all!

Vesuvius was particularly good, you could see right into the crater!

Could they be sand dunes Soupy?

I love google earth but also find it weirdly scary. I think I have a bit of vertigo.

Am going to have a look at flash wotsit.

Pretty sure bran is right, they are sand dunes.

What are the grey/blue metallic looking bits then? I assumed they were sand dunes.