[plug] [OT] Google maps

[Muskie Teh Otterboi]

That's technically impossible. well, maybe if you hijacked a military 
sattelite all for yourself, but for something like google maps, with a 
Bajillion people going to the site, there'd have to be about 200 
Sattelites each streaming video at some Ungodly resolution (8, maybe 900 
Terapixels?), plus some way for the Googlesat servers to Crop just what 
each user is viewing dynamically to be able to do that. :P

Well.. Maybe not impossible.. I give it 5, 6 years. XD

Muskie


W.Kenworthy wrote:

>We were looking at this a week or two back - one of the guys here had a
>house burn down a couple of blocks away, and there was a 6 month period
>where the block was "vacant" before rebuilding.  The maps of his area
>are then ~18months to 2 years old as the block shows as vacant.
>
>What I am waiting for next is to be able to take my laptop out onto the
>back lawn and see myself waving back ...
>
>BillK
>
>On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 09:07 +0800, Ben Jensz wrote:
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>>Well, you can't actually, as that map would have to be at least 3-4 
>>years old, as it's missing an entire housing division that is now there 
>>(and contains the house I was living in).  :)
>>
>>You can see distinctly see roof of the house I'm living in now that I'm 
>>in the big smoke though if you pick the right map though. :)
>>
>>
>>/ Ben
>>
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>>Leon Brooks wrote:
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>>>I can even see Ben's from up here:
>>>
>>> http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-17.97226,122.20745&spn=0.07,0.074&t=k
>>> 
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