spike1@freenet.co.uk wrote:
> Coffeehouse Schmuck <gotanygum@verizon.net> did eloquently scribble:
>> its not a live picture peoples
>
> Well... duuuuuuh
> Of course it's not live. They don't have satelites capable of covering so
> much ground in so much detail 24 hours a day, and actually gluing the
> pictures together seamlessly takes its time too.
>
> Add to that, google has to PAY for the satelite photos, I thought it
> would've been obvious from day one that they'd never have "ooo, I can see
> myself on the roof yesterday" type things. Some of the photos are quite
> current, others are 5 years old.
>
> So what?
>

I still believe they could clean the clouds over my place.
See the big cloud covering Montreal, QC. =(

But I agree, I don't quite much care about my place and google earth is
perfect to give an idea of what the planet is all about. You still have
to go there to really see it anyway.