Blue Bay by Google Earth
a comparison....
My desktop picture is one I took of Flathead Lake
and the Rocky Mountains when I stayed at Blue Bay with my family last summer. I
spent my entire youth there during the summer months. I know it
well.
There is a new application out called Google Earth which is a neat little application (mac and windowz) that is a series of satellite photos and surveylance plane photos all stitched together that span the ENTIRE GLOBE. I can see my house...the pool in the back yard, the big tree...I can see my in-laws house...with a car parked in the driveway...backed in, like my father-in-law likes to do it. And you can move the globe with the mouse and zoom in and zoom out.
And there is another neat feature. The main viewpoint is straight down...but you have a control that will tilt the globe so you are seeing it as if you were flying in a plane over it (low), or standing on the sidewalk...AND THE TOPOGRAPHY MATCHES!
Here is a quick snap of Missoula, angle on the "M" above Montana State University. Now, if you have been to Missoula, you'd know that this is exactly what it looks like.
Now, just so you don't have to take my word for it...here is a comparison of the photo I took at Blue Bay...and the exact same angle provided by Google Earth:
All I can say is...SWEET
There is a new application out called Google Earth which is a neat little application (mac and windowz) that is a series of satellite photos and surveylance plane photos all stitched together that span the ENTIRE GLOBE. I can see my house...the pool in the back yard, the big tree...I can see my in-laws house...with a car parked in the driveway...backed in, like my father-in-law likes to do it. And you can move the globe with the mouse and zoom in and zoom out.
And there is another neat feature. The main viewpoint is straight down...but you have a control that will tilt the globe so you are seeing it as if you were flying in a plane over it (low), or standing on the sidewalk...AND THE TOPOGRAPHY MATCHES!
Here is a quick snap of Missoula, angle on the "M" above Montana State University. Now, if you have been to Missoula, you'd know that this is exactly what it looks like.
Now, just so you don't have to take my word for it...here is a comparison of the photo I took at Blue Bay...and the exact same angle provided by Google Earth:
All I can say is...SWEET
