Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[Daniel Bauer <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Montag, 11. September 2006 19:53 schrieb John Andersen:
> On Monday 11 September 2006 04:23, Daniel Bauer wrote:
> > although I am *very* disappointed by the
> > quality and actuality of the pictures and don't understand the hype that
> > is (or was) made about it. Never looked at it again, except now to check
> > if it still works...
>
> Quality varies dramatically depending on the pictures available.  Look at
> down town Seattle, Washington DC, Baltimore, or London.
> Don't expect that resolution every where.

Yes, you are right of course. Even my little tiny hometown is quite clear, 
while the pictures of most other places I was looking for are really 
useless - just a greenish mess (where there it is green in summer). 

If just wonder about the great fuss about google earth, while sites like 
http://map.search.ch/ have much better photo material (except in larger 
cities) - without the need of downloading any software, with the possibility 
to find any address and without the big noise of google earth. And I guess 
this site is just one example...

It's just that when google came up with its program I expected something 
really great, you know. I was frustrated it wouldn't work on Linux first, but 
now that it does I think: who cares!.. :-)

Daniel
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