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Wednesday, April 13, 2005

Google satellite mapping

Google have recently bought keyhole.com - a firm specializing in satellite imaging - and have integrated the images with their own mapping functionality. It's pretty amazing - you can click on the "satellite" link at pretty much any zoom level to see the view from space. Unfortunately only US & Canada are covered in detail so far - it'll be brilliant when you can zoom in on Charlotte St...

1 comment:

Col said...

That's fab. Hope they do a European one. It's all down to Clinton freeing up the GPS satellites for commercial use.