Comments on: Google mapping enters the third dimension

Search giant launches Google Earth, a satellite mapping service that lets people zoom in for 3D views of buildings and terrain.
Images: Google takes a different view of Earth

[Jim Harmon]

Not impressed

The Google Earth software is quite easy to use. Unfortunately its usefulness is hampered by the very poor resolution of the images - at least at the two locations I viewed. MUCH better aerial shots (by orders of magnitude) are available at http://terraserver.microsoft.com/

what?

WHAT? I can see the car in the drive way and people on the sidewalks.

[Earl Benser]

Quite impressed...

The Google Earth software is indeed quite easy to use. Image
resolution is much better that Terraserver. Plus, the 'tilt turn, and
go' option is sweet. Now, all I need is for Google to come up with
the OS X version (and maybe to get structures and trees to come up
in 3D - like it was done back in the 80's for the Air Force.)

[jonbruce]

Download broken :-(

Google Earth has been down for days... any work on when we will see this up again??