Google Earth Community: Google Earth Tour

Tour the Primary Database and enjoy what is likely the largest scale, highest resolution, natural color representation of the earth's visual appearance and terrain shape ever assembled. This data is an exciting advance in Keyhole's mission to provide the visual context for understanding the world's information.

Click on the attachment above to see 58 examples of this new data in Google Earth.

High-resolution terrain data for the entire world derived from the NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission provides an accurate portrayal of mountains and valleys everywhere.

Italy's Vesuvio rises up from the plain of Naples with geometric accuracy.

High-resolution aerial photography of different areas than before, including the entire states of Indiana, Missouri, New Jersey, and, Massachusetts.

Aerial image of Mark Twain's birthplace in oddly-named 'Florida, Missouri' demonstrates high-resolution even in rural areas.

High-resolution sub-meter satellite image data over a huge global area, with special emphasis on international locations. If your travel city in Australia, South and Central America, Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, or the Indian subcontinent was not there before, it may well be there now.

Madrid's Plaza del Sol is clear enough to locate the landmark 'Tio Pepe' sign. Thousands of cities worldwide have this clarity!

Enhanced transportation network data for western Europe shows highways, city streets, and even alleys..

These roads near Dublin's Trinity College lead to the Book of Kells.

15 meter per pixel coverage of the entire surface of the earth. This new and beautiful dataset replaces the former kilometer per pixel base map. Fly anywhere on the globe and you can see most man-made structures and all large geographic features.

Australia's Ayers Rock is detailed even in the "low resolution" data area

Welcome to Google Earth!

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MINOR DATABASE UPDATE
06/10/05 08:41 AM

- Moscow city center
- Paris color balance improved
- Taipei city center
- Amsterdam
- Johannesburg (one extra scene has been added)
- Missouri and Indiana: Digital Globe data used where appropriate

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Be seeing you,
Seer

Edited by seer (07/11/05 07:01 AM)

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