[meteorite-list] Google Maps

From: Darren Garrison <cynapse_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Apr 6 00:20:10 2005
Message-ID: <c6p651d42rdo3mn1r3ev9jk9uulr227f0g_at_4ax.com>

On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 23:49:51 -0400 (EDT), "Marc Fries" <m.fries_at_gl.ciw.edu> wrote:

>Howdy
>
> Ok, this is pretty cool:
>
>http://maps.google.com/
>
> Google has developed a seamless map database that cross-links to
>satellite photos. I scrolled this thing from Manacouagan crater to
>Wetumpka crater, then out to Hawaii and "visited" my current home and
>my mom's house on the way. This is actually a pretty spectacular site
>for locating physical landform features and cross-referencing them to a
>road map.
> I can see my house from here!

It's pretty cool, but it has a conciderably lower resolution than some other map sites I've ran
across.
Received on Wed 06 Apr 2005 12:26:19 AM PDT