Google Earth

A friend of mine recently told me about the new thing on the Internet - Google Earth - and suggested i take a look. Curious, i decided to download the program and see what all the fuss was about. Basically, it's a virtual Earth taken from satellite images, i guess, meaning that you can go literally anywhere in the world and take a look from above. As you might expect, the images can go to a higher resolution in the higher populated areas - probably because they expect more people to actually look at them. In some places, you can get the program to superimpose 3D buildings on to the map to get a real perspective of the city (this is very impressive in places like New York and Tokyo). Anyway, from adding borders, roads, coffee houses, bars, clubs, postcode regions and God knows what else, there's enough to keep you entertained for hours. And, believe me, its quite addictive.

Of course, the images aren't bang up to date. A look at Charleston from above suggests that they are, perhaps, a couple of years old - going mainly on the fact that the recently opened Ravenel bridge across the Cooper river is in the midst of early construction. But this detracts little from the fun of spotting out familiar locales, places you've been and places you've wanted to go. Ok, maybe you'll read this and think i'm a bit sad - but given that most of the people i've mentioned this to have said similar things, looks like i'm not the only one. Give it a try, you never know, you might like it! On other Google fronts, go to the main page, type 'failure' in the search box and hit 'I'm Feeling Lucky' - it's quite amusing.