TimeToRide Posted April 27, 2009 Posted April 27, 2009 I had to download Google Earth 5.0 (free download) for work last week. What a great toy! It works for planning a trip and reliving old ones. You punch in where you want to go any where in the world and it takes you there, turn on roads, set you zoom to where you want it, set your line of sight to the angle you want (really looks good in the mountains)and turn to look down in the direction you want. Now start panning up the road, when you pan and let off the mouse key while it is still moving it continues up the road on its own whith you pulling it around corners. The imagery is full color and very 3-D with the quality differing depending on the data. You can look at it in the past depending on what old photos etc they have and put the sun where you wnat it to change the shadows! Pretty impresive. Allan
OoPEZoO Posted April 27, 2009 Posted April 27, 2009 its pretty cool isn't it? The perfect tool for all those cold/wet winter months
Joe Frickin' Friday Posted April 27, 2009 Posted April 27, 2009 I like using it to understand the "lay of the land" on roads I've ridden on before. You see a road from the air, and suddenly you understand why it curves this way or that way. Some favorite spots to ogle: -the run up Pikes Peak. -UT95 from the Hite Overlook (or even from Blanding) up toward Hanksville. -Dead Horse Point, Utah. -The run down UT128 into Moab. -The Vegas Strip (turn on 3D buildings). -Grand Frickin' Canyon. -Mount Kilimanjaro (you can actually see the foot trail up the eastern slope of the main cone, and the huts at 15,340 feet). If you have detail levels set very high, it takes a long time to download detailed imagery for an area; I'm looking forward to the days when higher bandwidth (or bigger HD's) allows us to have full terrain detail appear on screen as fast as we can scroll there.
marcopolo Posted April 28, 2009 Posted April 28, 2009 If you have a Garmin GPS and have Mapsource loaded on your PC, you can easily view routes in Google Earth that you have created in Mapsource. Very slick and fun.
** Chris ** Posted April 28, 2009 Posted April 28, 2009 But can you create them in Goggle Earth and transfer them to your GPS?
marcopolo Posted April 28, 2009 Posted April 28, 2009 But can you create them in Goggle Earth and transfer them to your GPS? Not that I'm aware of. Presumably if you wanted to create some sort of route using a Google product it would be Google Maps.
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