Just checked Google earth.. and it looks like there has been a major data update. Lots of places are much clearer. Not very high resolution, but much better then before!. My home town, Mangalore now looks great, and I can see my house ! :)
Check out this picture of Infosys Mangalore – My office back at Mangalore…
Infosys Mangalore – Google Earth view – Click to Zoom
Infact, tons of places across the globe have new images!. Enjoy! I am off to side-seeing! :)
Try out Google Earth today!.
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June 10th, 2006 at 12:13am
Yesterday Google quitely updated Google Earth’s image resolution of quite a lot of cities. This update also included Mumbai (Bombay), Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore. Cool.
Seeing the images, it looks like these were taken around a year back!
Here is a mini-bangalore sightseeing using Google Earth! (You must have installed Google Earth on your machine to view these files)
I could also see the Infosys Campus in Electronics city!
You can download the full tour of places listed above here.
The same is the case with Mumbai. Now the Gateway of India is pretty clear. Mumbai looks great. Don’t miss the Marine drive area!
Enjoy!
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September 18th, 2005 at 12:43pm
Google Earth is awesome. Freaked out with it over the weekend. Its a fine piece of software, and works like a charm even on a 128 kbps connection! Mostly looks like they use XML over HTTP to talk to the server. (similar to google maps).
The places in US are in a very good resolution, and the building in major cities (in US) are in 3D. So, you can kind of do a fly through!.
Places that I saw over the weekend….. Atlanta, Norcross (my wife used to work here when she had been to US on an assignment), Hoover Dam (has good 3d-terrain), Grand Canyon, SFO and the bay area – Cupertino (apple office), Mountain View (Google), Infosys office at Kaiser Drive, Golden gate bridge, Detroit Airport, Hartsfield-Jackson airport at Atlanta, Niagara Falls, NY – Manhattan Area, Liberty island…… Saw Dubai too!
When it comes to India, the resolution is not that great. But New Delhi has good resolution, specially the Rashtrapathi Bhavan, Lok Sabha, India Gate area etc. May be, because its the capital. Bombay/Mumbai resolution is pretty bad. Couldn’t find gateway of India. Agra – Taj Mahal is not that clearly visible, but you can see it (bcoz its so huge!).
One funny thing I noticed was the names that are given to the cities, specially in south India. For e.g., Mangalore is named as ‘Mangaluru’, as if its pronounced in Kannada!. Mysore is named ‘Maisuru’ and so on…
Could get a nice view of Mangalore. Never knew Mangalore looked like that!!. Saw Hyderabad, Mysore, KRS dam, Kabini Dam, Goa etc. All the airports are clearly visible, including Mangalore, Goa, Bangalore etc!.
Its really addictive, and fun. You can sit with it for hours together. It will be more fun when the image resolutions of the Indian Subcontinent improves!
Updates (Sep-18-2005) : Resolution of some indian cities better now. Read More…
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July 4th, 2005 at 09:47am