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Google Earth and ski area viewing
Has anyone tried google earth to vie a ski area yet?
I have known about the Sat images of the earth for a while. Back when microsoft had its terra server up and running and then google got in on the deal the problem was it was very low resolution images. Just recently Google earth has added alot of new hi res scans. when I recently went on I noticed they had the whole of west yorkshire updated. It wasn't long before I started to look at the ski areas, damn low res but I noticed on the version of google earth that you download you can tilt the map and view the contours of the mountain. This is very cool, you can zoom in rotate and almost 'fly' through the valleys. Anyhow, I just happened to zoom into andorra and found that it was hires images. when you zoom in you can see the pistes, lifts and even some people and if you use your imagination you can even spot the odd mogul field. if you haven't already got it check it out here http://earth.google.com/ and then try (copy and paste the following position into the search box) 42°31'48.93"N, 1°27'33.05"E Truely impressive stuff!!!! Cheers Paul |
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