It's nice, but not that flash - a bit like a 1MP digital camera. The
resolution in country areas is pretty ordinary - it is very difficult
to find places like Birdsville, let along particular birding sites.
Certainly you can navigate via lats and longs.
It is worth noting that the place labels can be out by a kilometre or
more and that the roads are often on the wrong alignment [if you are
using the road layer]. In areas like Birdsville, the system may well
show up a minor track rather than the main drag. Looking at the
Flinders Ranges, I found that the peaks it labelled weren't on the map
I was looking at, and that the peaks on my map weren't labelled by
google. In Western Australia, I found that Jurien Bay was labelled
while Cervantes wasn't.
It will be a while before you can put away your maps and use google
images to navigate.
Regards, Laurie.
On Wednesday, August 10, 2005, at 06:58 PM, Timothy Hyde wrote:
Google Earth - warning
If you venture into this, be prepared to waste a good portion of your
time.
Not on the loading, installing or getting it to work, it's basically
very
simple, but it is absolutely amazing. You will be hooked.
I've been virtually revisiting birding spots for the last few weeks,
plotting out our patch in the Capertee valley, etc etc etc
highly recommended
Timothy
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