Google Earth

riblit · Post by **riblit** » 16 July 05 6:40 pm

Hey Bronze<br />
-19 10.3129, 127 47.7733 copy and paste into the 'Fly to' bar<br />
wolfs creek meteor crater.

ideology · Post by **ideology** » 16 July 05 7:59 pm

we pasted it into our gps instead!

Papa Bear_Left · Post by **Papa Bear_Left** » 17 July 05 1:46 am

I thought I was big bloke from South Australia.

This bloke's bigger:

S29 31'54" E137 27'59"

(Zoom up to about 10km so you can get the right perspective. It's the "Marree Man" and he's 4km tall!)

swampgecko · Post by **swampgecko** » 17 July 05 6:32 am

Bear_Left wrote:I thought I was big bloke from South Australia.

This bloke's bigger:

S29 31'54" E137 27'59"

(Zoom up to about 10km so you can get the right perspective. It's the "Marree Man" and he's 4km tall!)

My parents were flying from Darwin to Adelaide, when the plane banked a few times, Dad says to Mum, there's an image down there. They finally get to Sydney and were telling about it as we drove home, Dad was asking if I had ever seen or heard of this image, knowing the I had spent a lot of time in planes going over the same area, no kwas my reply, This was just before the "Marree Man" appeared in the news.

Bronze · Post by **Bronze** » 26 July 05 12:54 am

Thanks Guys.

I'm having a ball surfing the world. checking out all these cool locations virtually is really cool and the novelty hasn't warn off yet.

I can wait until the graphics gets slowly better around the world. Hopefully slowly the High res graphics will be used all over. It was disppointing not being able to see places like Stone Henge and the Red Ochre Capital very well.

In time hopefully.

The Bronze.

Bronze · Post by **Bronze** » 26 July 05 2:49 am

Just discovered overlays about two hours ago. There are a lot of good ones but I reckon this would have to be one of the best.

It's a realtime (or almost) Cloud Overlay. Make sure you play with the transparency.

http://www.googleearthhacks.com/dlfile3 ... ud-map.htm

The Bronze.

ideology · Post by **ideology** » 26 July 05 8:10 am

have you discovered the google earth geocaching australia network link?

Mind Socket · Post by **Mind Socket** » 27 July 05 10:05 am

I have, it totally rocks! Just need a linux version and a video card so I can use it at home. In the last couple of weeks, I've seen just about everyone on my floor at work zooming about in Google Earth.

ideology · Post by **ideology** » 27 July 05 10:12 am

we now have google earth links on cache pages so you can jump to particular locations instantly. they only display one waypoint per cache at the moment, but our plan is to display a tracklog for moveable caches

GIN51E · Post by **GIN51E** » 28 July 05 11:14 pm

ok well now and then when i exit or open google earth i get this error message

http://members.iinet.net.au/~gins/error.jpg

anyone know what it means? the program still functions fine.

also on a lighter note,

don't think google earth will help you much when looking for this cache,

think i bit of cloud snuck in on the photo.
http://geocaching.com.au/cache/gch2xg

riblit · Post by **riblit** » 29 July 05 12:04 am

GIN51E wrote:ok well now and then when i exit or open google earth i get this error message

http://members.iinet.net.au/~gins/error.jpg

anyone know what it means? the program still functions fine.

also on a lighter note,

don't think google earth will help you much when looking for this cache,

think i bit of cloud snuck in on the photo.
http://geocaching.com.au/cache/gch2xg

Looks like its a bit unhappy with network file contents.

GIN51E · Post by **GIN51E** » 29 July 05 12:55 am

and to me that means?

ideology · Post by **ideology** » 29 July 05 8:24 am

hmmm... we must be sending some invalid XML to google earth
luckily you've posted the coords so we should be able to debug it
we'll take a look over the next couple of days

is anyone else having this problem?

Cached · Post by **Cached** » 29 July 05 10:44 am

I was playing with it last night (on dial-up) and it was fine.

Damo. · Post by **Damo.** » 29 July 05 7:22 pm

GIN51E wrote:
don't think google earth will help you much when looking for this cache,

think i bit of cloud snuck in on the photo.
http://geocaching.com.au/cache/gch2xg

Think that's bad? Looks like Launceston is covered in cotton wool. http://geocaching.com.au/cache/gcncm2