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Winer infuses Google Earth landscapes with vivid color—distorting them and making the shapes, contours, and patterns on the planet’s surface pop. As the project’s name suggests, the idea is to become intimate with these mini-portraits of Earth, from afar.
Separated from his older brother at a train station, 5-year-old Saroo Munshi Khan found himself lost in the slums of Calcutta. Nearly 20 years later, living in Australia, he began a painstaking search for his birth home, using ingenuity, hazy memories, and Google Earth.
this is amazing. voice overs, 3d buildings, etc. give it a few years and we’ll be able to reconstruct most scenarios in 3d.
sucks for Avi Bar-Zeev.
So the industrial applications market can only grow, but what about the competitive landscape? While some would argue Microsoft World-Sim and Google Earth are very different tools for different purposes, let’s face it – both are realistic simulations you can fly through, which aggregate real world data for physics purposes. And while Flight Sim was going to deliver underwater as a mode, Google just pulled the trigger. In a story today Google Earth Fills Its Watery Gaps The NY Times reported that Google is now mapping the blue parts of the planet. Microsoft and Google were in adjacent market, on a collision course. Not any more. Somebody blinked.
oceans, mars, time machine. best release in quite some time.
those guys have far too much fun
In this current job search, one of the big companies actually surprised and impressed me, not only in their offer, but throughout the process, the people and professionalism. The 2 days of on-site interviews weren’t as much about testing my coding skills as they were about vision, work styles, and that ever-elusive “fit.” Turns out, I actually had fun. And in the end, my bosses-to-be offered exactly the kind of role I wanted with the freedom to define it myself — new, challenging, and some potentially very big wins on the horizon, straddling both R&D and productization with the goal of adding value wherever I can Avi has contributed in big ways to some pretty well known software projects like Keyhole and Second Life. I’m looking forward to seeing what he sinks his teeth into next.
they need all the help they can get.
Teens use google earth to party in strangers’ pools
oblig z-boys reference: stacy peralta would be proud.
Making a 3D model of your properties or a town in Google Earth sure is fun, but let’s be clear: It’s no longer innovative, and it is certainly not “the next best thing to being there”.
so true. that one was way over the top, and frankly, who cares?
the 3d buildings kick ass. try zurich at dusk
Gregor J. Rothfuss 