[Venturello]

Google maps is an excellent satellite and street mapping system, and until now it was centered on the US. This week worldwide maps where launched, and it includes NZ with many zones in higher resolution.

This is an overview of NZ:

http://maps.google.com/

Click and drag to move, use zoom controls to zoom in or out. Most zones are (still) not in higher resolution, but Auckland partly is (a large part is not...):

http://maps.google.com/

Wellington is not:

http://maps.google.com/

Curiously, large areas of the north of south island are:

http://maps.google.com/

While ChCh is also not:

http://maps.google.com/

Etc... you can recognize higher res parts by their darker color.

There is no street information. This is now available in the US, Canada, UK and other parts of Europe, and should eventually come to NZ (it is great for planning trips, etc). With time they will also continue to add higher resolution sections - which, as you'll see, lower resolution is nice but almost worthless, while highest resolution is very, very nice.

Enjoy,

Juan Miguel Venturello

ps. In this picture, you can see my current house near Barcelona, Spain - on my garden you can see me taking the sun and smiling to the camera :yes ;) :

http://maps.google.com/

[baboonworld]

wow

nice pool!

but who's the topless bird?

[Carol]

I'm going to use this in my classroom on Monday!!!

Fantastic!
:clap :clap :clap :clap

[xanctus]

nice...hopefully, the NZ google map comes to reality soon...
thx for sharing the info...

[xanctus]

nice...hopefully, the NZ google map comes to reality soon...
thx for sharing the info...

SORRY double post...I wonder is there any way I can delete this?

[Kenny]

ps. In this picture, you can see my current house near Barcelona, Spain - on my garden you can see me taking the sun and smiling to the camera :yes ;) :

http://maps.google.com/[/quote]

Can you get some clothes on please - there's children present

[Moorf]

A great worldwide satellite program is "World Wind" from NASA.

You can look at anywhere in the world - looking at the pyramids was cool.

WARNING: Will take days to download of you don't have broadband!!

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

[Venturello]

Can you get some clothes on please - there's children present :oops: :oops: :laugh :laugh :laugh

:eek :eek

Hey, I just had time to smile for the satellite, not to put my clothes on!!

[Rammer]

Waw ! Spend hours playin about with this, Have a look at area 51 in Nevada!

Many Thanks

[Moorf]

Crikey that Google maps is fab! :clap We really can see our house on it! :nice1

[Venturello]

Now everyone, google has released a new 3D tool. Look at the amazing pictures - this is my same house in Barcelona:

http://www.venturello.com/files/Casa.jpg

And a pic of NZ south island, what I am looking now:

http://www.venturello.com/files/NZSouth.jpg

Available for free at http://earth.google.com/tour/index.html

Cool, eh?

Juan Miguel Venturello

[Moorf]

OH MY GIDDY AUNT!

Amazing!

:nice1

[Rammer]

Hey Juan, This is a fab tool :clap

But I got 'done' today at work for playing about all morning with it, and even more so for sharing it with workmates :eek the web admins here have now blocked the earth.google stuff now :wah

never mind, I only have 3 more working days here and I am OFF.... YIPEE....

Thanks for sharing.
Ian

[bozandhelen]

The northland seems to be better covered by their own councils GIS (Graphical Information System) and in better (almost scary!) detail. You can get down to cars in the car parks, and as you get down to street level the street name and property boundries are superimposed on the screen.

The real scary bit is is the layer options you can set to see just about any feature you want and if you select the "get info" bit you can view plot number and plot size. Nice tool if your looking at properties or just have tons of time to kill..

http://www.wdc.govt.nz/gis/

Boz