MetaFilter posts tagged with googlemaps and satellite

Earth From Above / Pale Blue Dot

Bora Horza Gobuchul — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 01:55:46 -0800

Earth in perspective:

Stratocam takes the most beautiful landscape satellite photographs from Google Maps, as voted on by visitors, and switches them every few seconds, with a fullscreen mode.
ChronoZoom is an interactive, zoomable HTML5 timeline of the entire history of the universe, from the Big Bang to Homo Sapiens, with embedded video and lectures.

Saucy Intruder — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:46:36 -0800

Protocols of the Elders of Awesome — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 07:54:09 -0800

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 07:13:49 -0800

Microsoft wipes Apple from the face of the Earth. Virtual Earth, that is. A search for "1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA" renders only an empty field and some sort of barn. This is what it really looks like. Finding that other microcomputer company is obviously not a problem. Microsoft blames old photographs (from 1991) for the omission, but copyright notices on the images go only as far back as last year.