Mapping Our World
I just discovered an amazing new application on the web - mapping/satellite photographs of just about everywhere (in the US anyway and lots of places outside the country).
You can check it out at:
Google http://maps.google.com/
Microsoft http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/
You can search for a place by address and then get a map (or at terraserver, a topographic map) or satellite photograph of the place and then you can zoom in and out and pan around. I find the Google site more user friendly (easier to pan and in color), but the topographic feature on the Microsoft site might come in handy too.
Being July 4th I guess I should say something patriotic. My Grandfather always said, "Happy Birthday America, I love you!" I subscribe to that too.
Hope you are all enjoying this early summer holiday break.
You can check it out at:
Google http://maps.google.com/
Microsoft http://www.terraserver.microsoft.com/
You can search for a place by address and then get a map (or at terraserver, a topographic map) or satellite photograph of the place and then you can zoom in and out and pan around. I find the Google site more user friendly (easier to pan and in color), but the topographic feature on the Microsoft site might come in handy too.
Being July 4th I guess I should say something patriotic. My Grandfather always said, "Happy Birthday America, I love you!" I subscribe to that too.
Hope you are all enjoying this early summer holiday break.
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