Now it seems that Google has decided to have a go at the IM market.

http://www.google.com/talk/

What do you think of it. It is rather limited at the moment since its only for GMail users but it is going to expand.

Lol! Google has everything. Try maps.google.com, type in your address, full zoom, then click satalite. I could see my house!

This may be severly off topic but...

 

http://web.ripnet.com/~jdprosper/OMG%20I%20can%20see%20the%20car.JPG

ZOMG I CAN SEE MY CAR!

I must say that is bloody impressive. Pity the maximum zoom is limited to the states.

Dude, this is cool looking. I have Gmail, so if anyone needs an account, just give me an address and i'll send you an invite (I only get six at a time, though)

only 6!?!

I have 50.

 

Tofu could you PM me your gmail adresse and we can have a chat.

Oh- wait, nevermind, I do have fifty. My bad. And if you desperately want the address its chris.chrispete@gmail.com I didn't feel creative when I made it up

I must say that is bloody impressive. Pity the maximum zoom is limited to the states.

 

Actually I can't even get it to zoom on my university town (Urbana) . As for Google Talk, I tried to set it up with Gaim but it keeps disconnecting me from some reason.. and I won't ever get a separate client .

I will have to give Gaim a try one of these days.

I must say that is bloody impressive. Pity the maximum zoom is limited to the states.

 

Actually I can't even get it to zoom on my university town (Urbana) . As for Google Talk, I tried to set it up with Gaim but it keeps disconnecting me from some reason.. and I won't ever get a separate client .

 

I was wondering ho often the databank is being updated.

I've found my city. but the resolution is crap. Budapest looks great however.

Is there any option for ordering hig detailed shots? Now that would be fun.

Same with me LLF, I've found roughly where my home is (as well as what's apparently area 51 if anyone's interested ).

It's so annoying because the region next to mine has the maximum resolution where you can make out individual cars!!!

I'm just interested if you can see my house through all the trees

I will have to give Gaim a try one of these days.

 

I tried it a while ago, and never liked. And as I don't use either Y! or any IM other than MSN, most of its functions were wasted.

 

Graphically it's pretty crap too.

Same with me LLF, I've found roughly where my home is (as well as what's apparently area 51 if anyone's interested ).

It's so annoying because the region next to mine has the maximum resolution where you can make out individual cars!!!

I'm just interested if you can see my house through all the trees

 

That's the resolution I get too. Only 1 km away, it's high detail

I'm wondering what that big white field in Are 51 is ...

Another site you can try for more detailed stuff is multimap.com.....

There's some program similar to Google Map that the CNN guys have been using lately to look at the layout of New Orleans. Anyone know what it is? It seems to have a good resolution on the maps they have.

Eh, multimap won't do satalite where I live

Multimap doesn't seem to have satellite views

Well you have to be at least 1:200,000 and amybe its just th UK but:

 

http://www.multimap.com/bx793/gmp/530/180/X530000Y180000S200000W500H300.jpg

 

'Tis the great urban sprall of London.

You live in London don't you?

Can you see your house?

Once you get too close in the aeiral photo's resolution gets pretty poor so I can only see white blurs. I can see the rough area though.