Google Maps Now Cover Whole World 357
GregBryant writes "They haven't blogged it yet, but maps.google.com has added some additional scaling-out, and maps of the entire world are available. Only country names so far (except in the US, Canada & UK) but it's still nice to finally click back & forth between the Satellite imagery and some real maps, even if their proportions don't quite match."
I wish (Score:3, Informative)
weeeelll, not everywhere... (Score:3, Informative)
For Europe, there is a better map site (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Making progress, but it's not Earth yet (Score:1, Informative)
satellite censorship (Score:2, Informative)
First, I understand why this would happen, because of terrorists, etc... I would like to state right now, that I am NOT a Terrorist...
But anyways, I was zooming in on cities and thought it was cool, I could pick out what house I wanted based on how it looked from the sky, etc..
So I thought... Hmmm.. Washington DC would be cool to see... White house in reference to SIZE of other buildings ect... so I punch it up... and when I'm in full zoom, it looks as if the White House and the two buildings on either side have been "Censored"... Look at other building tops, they show peaks, vents, etc... all that building roof stuff... On top of the White House and the two other buildings surrounding it... NOTHING...
Well, not NOTHING, but an obvious photoshop type hack to blank out details... interesting...
Thats all... Just interesting... Once again, you can't believe what you see, and all media has some type of controll... Personally, there are very REAL reasons for this, and I don't have a problem with that particular example, but what about other places... You might not even know that what you see is not what is really there...
Blurs on Lincoln Memorial, and other buildings also... this is now a game to me, find the censored images... new fun at google!
I bet it isn't 2:45pm at the Washington Monument either...
Just the type of conspiracy that the folks here on
Now... to Find Area 51... Maybe I should post anonymously... Naw... I'm sure they won't fin$%()*#^#(*%#.... {Carrier lost}
Re:Professionally? (Score:3, Informative)
I don't remember all the features, but when I last looked at it, it had a good zoom, which I like better than Google Maps. It also provides data from LandSat and USGS.
Unfortunately, it's Windows only, and now that I switched to Linux, I have to use Google Maps.
Re:Professionally? (Score:3, Informative)
http://nmviewogc.cr.usgs.gov/viewer.htm [usgs.gov]
actually, there were a lot of changes (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Professionally? (Score:2, Informative)
Here is free USGS topographic data from the USGS:
http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/gtopo30/gtopo30.asp [usgs.gov]
That's the raw data files, buddy. Can't really ask for much more than that can ya. BTW, if you check out the NASA worldwind project you will find that there is an incredible amount of freely availble GIS data being served up on wms servers all over the world.
RE: No, that's what Israel lobbied for (Score:2, Informative)
The US government has access to what they want of Israel satellite photos, but the *sale* of high resolution images is restricted so Israel's enemies will find it harder to spy on them.
oooooh, a government acting in the interests of its citizens... scandalous!
Re:For Europe, there is a better map site (Score:3, Informative)
For Switzerland, there is map.search.ch [search.ch] which is great (and with a simplicity which reminds very much of Google). I don't know for other European countries.
Re:Nice going, jerkwad (Score:4, Informative)
This is a well-known issue in the imaging world.