WOW! This is real *REAL* cool...
...Or, possibly I am just a real *REAL* geek.
I present to you the Flash Earth. It uses satellite images and engines run by MSN and Google to give you a map you can pan and zoom with. Makes you feel like you're at CIA headquarters or something.
This is so cool I think I must declare a contest. You will have to help by not cheating and lighting up the MSN w/labels though or it becomes way way way too easy.
Identify these sites...
Put your answers in as comments... no peeking at other peoples answers first - and no using the MSN labels before you guess.
Truth be told I am a little nervous that some of these sites are accessible. But I guess the resolution isn't really all that helpful if you were truly planning something bad.
Good luck with the contest!
8 comments:
1. your house
2. Bellagio
3. Ground Zero, Manhattan
4. Epcot
5. Mt. Rushmore
6. the Boever's mothership
7. the Pentagon
Get your geek on, brother.
those are not all correct.
1: Purnell Center, Stage right
2: Paris Casino
3: Ground Zero, NYC
4: WDW, Florida
5: Mount Rushmore
6: Your mom's house?
7: Pentagon (in Arlington, VA)
I second the Google Earth plug. It loads faster and has lots of cool features:
you can change your viewing angle, it has topographic information, so it fits the pictures to elevation data (awesome for things like fly-bys of Mt. St Helens, grand canyon, Himalayas, etc) AND(!) for large cities (Pittsburgh and NYC included), they have building data, so it has the actual model of the city. each building, in 3d. That I think is much more dangerous information than just a top-down aerial photo. [which is to say: not very dangerous, but a little bit unsettling]. And it is searchable by street address, keywords, zipcode, etc, etc.
Totally worth the free download ;)
Check it out: http://earth.google.com/
[oh! It also has driving directions and local searching incorporated. Not to mention you can load in Dynamic Data Layers (things like: live airplane tracker, cruise ship tracking, HAM radio nodes, doppler radar, historic battle sites, and anything else someone can think up). Some cool stuff, fun for hours of distraction…]
the only one i recognize is the pentagon, being a DC resident now! though from the three rivers view, one is definitely in the burgh.
becca
HOW FUN!
1-The Purnell Center flytower. And did you know if one were to rappel off the SW corner you can be seen by campus police in the Building D parking lot?
2-The Bellagio in Vegas. I'm atributing this to the 347,302 times I've seen Ocean's 11
3-This looks like an industrial area so I'm going to guess it's Showmotion.
4-Many a vaction readily tell me this is EPCOT (Educational Something Something Something) Center in DisneyWorld
5-No Fair the cloud cover is in the way. I'll guess Mt.Rushmore?
6-Chicago, looks like a nice neighborhood. Is this your parent's house?
7-Too easy for those of us who passed geometry. Did you know the employees of the Pentagon drink enough coffee in one day to float an aircraft carrier?
-deano
1. Purnell Center for the Arts
2. Bellagio
3. World Trade Center/Ground Zero
4. Disny World
5. Mt. Rushmore, since that's the only thing in that part of the country worth putting on the quiz.
6. Your mom's house
7. The Pentagon
1) Purnell Center
2) The Cirque place in Las Vagas
3) Ground Zero, NYC
4) Disney World
5) Mount Rushmroe
6) Your parents house in Chicago
7) Pentagon
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