Tuesday, July 04, 2006

World Map

If you thought the ringgit or so road maps you buy at convinient stores are cool then you’ll be hard pressed to find a word to describe the experience of using Google Earth. Before you get too excited, do check to see if your computer meets the current requirements.

I don’t think you have to be a geographically sound (I did take 2 years of high school geography after all and I think most of you did) to appreciate this service. It’s amazing. You can zoom in, you can tilt the image, you can get driving directions superimposed on the satellite images, you can get road names added, dining options included and much more but these options only really apply to the US. Well they say it's still in beta/alpha stage. Keep in mind it's not real time and the data is around 1 to 2 years old.

Go play!

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