Do not use Google earth

Because it’s bloody brilliant and will eat away all your productivity and you will do nothing but sit on it for many hours. (That’s how I lost all my sleep last night)

Don’t be discouraged if you are from india, because google earth has atleast a low-resolution version of it with altitude details. So I was able to look at the Bangalore, which is essentially the maps version of it, but you can start driving out of Bangalore. I was able to track Mysore, BR hills, Bandipur etc etc and with elevation details, I was looking at all the hills and water holes in BR hills where I usually sit to watch animals.

If you are in the US, its a different ball game. I spent 2 hours driving through the bay area, looking at all the familiar roads and landmarks. Now I want to see the MSN version of it 🙂

9 Comments

  1. anomalizer · June 29, 2005 Reply

    Fortunately I dont have windoze@work. So my night activites are the ones that is going to take a hit

  2. zeeshanmn · June 29, 2005 Reply

    Amazing!! I am already hooked to it!

  3. vibhanshu · June 29, 2005 Reply

    Yeah this thing is too cool 🙂 Anyways I had asked her why don’t they make keyhole free and pat came her reply “Wait for somemore time and we’ll ;)”

  4. Anonymous · June 29, 2005 Reply

    You aint see nothing yet. The Bay area is in 2-d. New York is in 3-d!

  5. smriti · June 29, 2005 Reply

    Exactly. Very addictive. My expectations were so high after flying over apartments in the US, that I actually expected to find HSR layout, and was disappointed when I didnt 😀

  6. admin · June 29, 2005 Reply

    Well, I can see the agara lake, ring road, hosur road etc 🙂

  7. admin · June 29, 2005 Reply

    When and where did you meet her ?

  8. sidcarter · June 30, 2005 Reply

    In the meanwhile, I found out the pyramids, the sphinx, the eiffel tower, the pantheon and the colosseum. Need to look out for other places 🙂

  9. Anonymous · July 3, 2005 Reply

    thank you…

    it really did take up a LOT of time…what a fascinating thing it is! thanks for the link.

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