I don't use Google that much, just checked it out today and downloaded google earth, pretty cool program it gives you a view from above you can check out your home town or that of your friends, best of all it gives you the overhead of there golf courses, another way to waste all that free time on your hands
my home town is Kenai Alaska pics of the course seem to be very early in the spring later........
search word GOOGLE EARTH will get you to the download site its a small download worth the trip
Google maps doesn't provide the same kind of service that google earth does. In fact, google maps has my entire area mapped out incorrectly.
I had google earth but as soon as I downloaded it, I had big virus problems with my computer. Once I restored my system to before I downloaded it, they went away. I drew my own conclusions from that and decided it wasn't worth trying again.
Google maps doesn't provide the same kind of service that google earth does. In fact, google maps has my entire area mapped out incorrectly.
I had google earth but as soon as I downloaded it, I had big virus problems with my computer. Once I restored my system to before I downloaded it, they went away. I drew my own conclusions from that and decided it wasn't worth trying again.
Go ahead, infect the entire university network. Let their tech guys work out the problem for you!
Google maps doesn't provide the same kind of service that google earth does. In fact, google maps has my entire area mapped out incorrectly.
I had google earth but as soon as I downloaded it, I had big virus problems with my computer. Once I restored my system to before I downloaded it, they went away. I drew my own conclusions from that and decided it wasn't worth trying again.
Just had to say i've had the program on my cpu for a few days without any trouble, ran a virus check with my norton program after running google (for a few hours) my system came back clean .....sorry for your bad luck, I think the program rocks....
Google Earth is great except for a couple of things.
1. I live out in the sticks and, consequently, in a low-res area.
2. The seach function won't find places very well unless its a city, state, country. Try finding Normandy or Pebble Beach.
3. Minor but triangular buidlings like the Transamerica Tower or the Luxor pyramid in Las Vegas are square when you view the 3-D buildings.
4. Last, and its not Googles fault, some really interesting areas are low-res, even if they are significant. Usually because they are not near or in a metropolitan area.
I do like the golf feature and if you want to mess around, open up the measure tool and measure distance on the courses. How far is it to that bunker or how wide is that fairway. Kind of cool.
I do like the golf feature and if you want to mess around, open up the measure tool and measure distance on the courses. How far is it to that bunker or how wide is that fairway. Kind of cool.
Oh, I'll have to try that. It sounds neat. I've had Google Earth for a while now and had no problems with the pc or the program.
Google Earth is great except for a couple of things.
1. I live out in the sticks and, consequently, in a low-res area.
2. The seach function won't find places very well unless its a city, state, country. Try finding Normandy or Pebble Beach.
3. Minor but triangular buidlings like the Transamerica Tower or the Luxor pyramid in Las Vegas are square when you view the 3-D buildings.
4. Last, and its not Googles fault, some really interesting areas are low-res, even if they are significant. Usually because they are not near or in a metropolitan area.
I do like the golf feature and if you want to mess around, open up the measure tool and measure distance on the courses. How far is it to that bunker or how wide is that fairway. Kind of cool.
I found pebble beach no problem (as well as most of the courses around here, for that matter) - but it was hard to find the old course. It doesn't appear when you search it, and the area is so low-res that you can't get close enough to distinguish the holes from one another.
I think in another 10 years or so, Google Earth will be amazing. Once they get really high res pictures of the whole world, you should be able to pick out dogs in yards, or chairs on patios, or maybe even a fallen apple on the ground. That would be sweet. But for now, i have to put up with little dark coloured dots on the fairways (those happen to be golfers) - hmph.
I found a couple of courses I play that have high enough resolution to tell where the tee box is and the green. I used the measuring feature, and was quite disappointed! Measuring from the tee box to areas I usually land the ball after a drive, Google Earth showed it 20-30 yards shorter than I believed it to be. Now since I can't see the tee box markers, and the landing area is just an extimate, I could see being 5-10 yards different. But some holes it was almost 50 yards difference! My original distance judgements were based on yardage markers on the course. If it is a stright hole, 400 yards long, and I hit my tee shot to the 150 yard marker, I would tend to believe I hit it 250 yards, give or take a yard. If it's 370 to the green, and I hit it PAST the 100 yard marker, I figure I have hit it AT LEAST 270 yards. So, something ain't right!
I'm playing one of the courses tomorrow (well, actually this morning since it's after midnight!) I'm going to take notice of some landmarks and note where some of my drives land, and just see what I get!
December 4th, 2005, 11:04 PM
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