Following a pointer from Jeff’s post on Google Earth, I tried out the application and took a screen shot of the turtle shaped Peang Island. I wonder why the island is called Pearl of the Orient, it is shaped more like a turtle to me… well, I guess pearl is more luxurious than a turtle. I am currently trying to zoom into my home… It doesn’t seam to have high resolution after zooming in. And the tool did not indicate if we have reach the highest zoom level.
Update:-
Drilling in further, this is the best resolution that I could get for Malaysia. I have found that the names of places seams to be dated. I wonder where google refer their maps to or to which date they refer the maps to. Below are some screenshots of Penang and Perak area.
Bayan Lepas Penang
Taiping, Perak
From Earth.Google.com, they claim that the photos could be as old as 3 years old. The photo below is a of Hillsboro, Oregon in US, in my recent trip there, I stayed at the Springhill Suites hotel which was built about 1-2 years ago. The hotel was not located at the map. Even of US cities, the photos could be older than 2 years. Nevertheless, the resolution of photos of US cities are in greater details, up to the extend of seeing the cars parked in the parking lot. It is quite a fun tool to play with, and I believe, this could be the future of directional maps. A stark improvement to current Yahoo Map if you have used it before.
The empty lot has now a hotel and a bank there.
High resolution:
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Google Earth
Google has launched a new service called Google Earth – http://earth.google.com. It’s touted as a 3D interface to the planet that combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world’s geographic information at your finge…
By Screenshots... on 06.29.05 9:05 am | Permalink
i have a satellite picture of penang island too but i am not sure when it was taken. should be at least 3 years or more.
the picture can be view here:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v32/sweetyLL/designs/c51bbb68.jpg
By lucia on 06.29.05 9:18 am | Permalink
The photo here should also be taken quite some time ago, the earth.google.com site claims that the photos could be as old as 3 years… but one thing for sure, is that these photos were taken when there was no haze….
by the way, where did you get the satalite photo of the island… looks good…
By kew on 06.29.05 11:17 am | Permalink
The Google’s Penang map is proabbly not so updated. Actually the Penang State Govt have a much better /detailed digital map. Exclusive access. If you’re interested I’ll give you the link when it is available to me- I’m not in the list of exclusive accessors yet.
By ong on 06.29.05 1:09 pm | Permalink
kew, i got this picture from a foreign friend’s website. and he didn’t know too where he got it.
yes, this is a good clear picture, which other people had asked from me to ‘lend’ them too. oh i had also use it as my avatar for comments/forum.
By lucia on 06.29.05 2:23 pm | Permalink
Hi there. How silly i was yesterday to delete the installer. Now Google has shut it down temporarily. Could someone please send me the installer via mail? please :) thanks :)
By fairuz on 06.30.05 8:42 am | Permalink
Hi Fairuz, how silly again, you did not leave your mail while entering this message, how can people send the file to you?
By kew on 06.30.05 8:48 am | Permalink
noisemonkie@yahoo.com since gmail forbids exe file. anyway thanks :) i was born silly
By noisemonkie on 06.30.05 10:54 am | Permalink
that noisemonkie fella is me btw. sorry for the multiple comments
By fairuz on 06.30.05 10:58 am | Permalink