Google Earth? download the software and give it a try, pretty cool.
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Anyone interested,see whereIwork at these cordinates

latitude 47°58'43.36"N
longitude 122°12'47.24"W

 

I have been useing it for quite soom time now.
Check out Area 51

 

Funny how that's the only area with the high res photos[&:]

 

Google earth is actually used by a few of the major news programs for satellite photos. you can usually see the "Google" white-ish text in the corner

 

I use it quite a bit. I started using it in Afghanistan, just to get quick, easy terrain maps.They have really added a lot in the last year or so.

 

I like to use it to plan runs, gives (i assume) accurate distances, although it doesn't account for hills
oh well.

They haven't updated my area in about 5'ish years.

I wonder how often the do updates.

 

I finally got high speed internet so I can play around with these things now

 

Yea, the photos are way out dated. Ive had my shed in the yard for about 6 years now, and google earth shows my yard before I got it.

 

I use it as well. also alot of college out here in the country use it for Agriculture students but they get the updated version

 

cumminalong - just cause you said you used it in Afghanistan - - You should see the plug in that some of the companies are building into their map software for the Army - - you can actually see where they pixed out the word Google Two of the map apps I used to work on the programs said that they bought all the sat images from a French company and they didn't like it when I was tootling around the software and found Google on their images.