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| Tuesday, June 28, 2005 |
| Google Earth Rocks |
by tollie
I wonder if the guys at Google were hinting at something when they renamed their aquired Keyhole software into Google Earth? Whether or not Google will one day become the worldwide search/email/news/economy/religion, you can't help but find their rapid development and deployment of new and cool projects fun.
Their newest project, Google Earth, which could also be called Keyhole 3, is the same work-horse used for all those fly-in views you see on the cable news networks. The free version lacks the ability to define those paths and do other advanced operations, but it's certainly cool enough to play around with.
Notable about Google Earth is that, unlike its predecesor Keyhole 2, Google Earth has lower system requirements thanks to a streaming broadband connection to the Google server chugging down only the data you need and in a way that off-loads your PC considerably.
Personally, on my P3 863MHz, with 384MB of RAM, it runs very fine - fast even, when Keyhole 2 wouldn't even run. It does require the broadband connection however, so dial-up users need not apply.
Check out this fly-in I did to Chase and Sam's Elevation at 5 Points, South in Birmingham. The video requires the H.264 codec, which Windows users can get by installing Quicktime 7 Preview and Mac users can get by installing Quicktime 7 via their Software Update. |
posted by Tollie Williams @ 3:22 PM   |
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