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To: Mannie who wrote (52416)	6/14/2006 4:17:44 PM
From: elpolvo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104155

scoot- Those Google images with your own notations are fantastic. Do you do that all within Google? google earth is the most awesome "killer app" to come along since the advent of the computer age and the internet. some of the graphics i do in google earth and some of them i do with adobe photoshop (just for my own ease)... but most of it can be done right in the application. they just released version 4 (beta) yesterday. i usually stay away from beta versions anymore because of all the bugs but i had to upgrade because i LOVE this application. it takes a fast computer processor (2.4 ghz), a lot of memory (512 mb), considerable hard drive space (?? gigs) and a broadband connection to run it... but it's awesome. the beta version is obviously on my work computer because my home machine is not that fast. the greatest thing about it is that it's open source and anyone can upload files and information from anywhere, anytime. did you notice cloud cover and weather systems in some of the pics?... that is a program that someone made that takes the most recent world infrared satellite weather information and overlays it on google earth. it's updated automatically, once every three hours when the new satellite images are available. there is a google earth community blog site where people can share info and files that anyone can click on that will add their placemarks to your google earth application. a couple of the cool ones i like are one that marks the whole globe with tide links... for example, i can click on the one at port aransas and it will pop up the information on tidal forecasts for that location. another one shows all the weather buoys in all the oceans... a click there will get you a pop-up that shows the current air temp, water temp, barometric pressure, wave heights, etc. there are hundreds of other things possible and in the works for google earth and there are millions of ordinary people adding stuff to it every day. it's definitely a new network business model application. -el NNBMer