Many people who visited my "Great Place to Live" - a high resolution view of North America from space - told me the "Visible Earth" website where I had obtained the image was down. This is to let you know that NASA has just informed me that they are back up again - with a tremendous library of high resolution images of the earth. For those of you that are interested, please go to http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
Also, NASA has a phenomenal product out called "World Wind" which allows you interactively explore the entire globe - and in the United States also provides topo map overlays. It also has 1 meter resolution photos (you can see cars!), and in some urban areas .25 meter resolution. You can tilt and pan and see the mountains in 3d. Awesome product. A nice part is that you can get to a point that you want to view, press the print screen button, and it will allow you to save the image as a jpeg (or other formats). This will blow your socks off, believe me, but you'll need a fast internet connection.
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov
NASA is in the process of turning the hosting of this data to Microsoft's Terraserver - so there may be slowdowns and frequent updates while this occurs with World Wind this month.
Just had a whirl on world wind! Thats a great little program..and i have a feeling iv'e only scratched the surtace..! Thanks very much for the headsup and link!
That's right - big download. Once you've installed it, as you move around it's grabbing images from servers to give you the high resolution imagery - so it takes a broadband connection to use it as well. Neat program though.
Also, NASA has a phenomenal product out called "World Wind" which allows you interactively explore the entire globe - and in the United States also provides topo map overlays. It also has 1 meter resolution photos (you can see cars!), and in some urban areas .25 meter resolution. You can tilt and pan and see the mountains in 3d. Awesome product. A nice part is that you can get to a point that you want to view, press the print screen button, and it will allow you to save the image as a jpeg (or other formats). This will blow your socks off, believe me, but you'll need a fast internet connection.
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov
NASA is in the process of turning the hosting of this data to Microsoft's Terraserver - so there may be slowdowns and frequent updates while this occurs with World Wind this month.
Have a great day, my friends at Caedes.