Ciekawostki z google earth

Prrivan

Indie uruchomiły konkurencyjny program dla GE o nazwie Bhuvan:

http://www.disclose.tv/frameset.php?url=.....795889.ece

Cytat:

From Times Online
August 14, 2009
India launches Bhuvan, rival to Google Earth

India has launched a rival to Google Earth, the search engine's hugely popular satellite imagery service.

The online tool, dubbed Bhuvan (Sanskrit for Earth), has been developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro). Its debut comes as India redoubles its efforts to reap profits from its 45-year-old state-sponsored space programme, criticised by some as a drain on a country where 700 million people live on $US2 a day or less.

The new site also follows in the slipstream of the country's first moon probe, Chandrayaan-1, which successfully reached the lunar surface last November.

Bhuvan uses a network of Indian satellites to create a high-resolution, birds-eye view of India that is accessible at no cost online and will compete with Google Earth.

The service has been specially designed to run smoothly on the low bandwidth internet connections that most Indian web users have to make do with. Even so, attempts by The Times to access yesterday morning failed - possibly because of a flood of users eager to test the site.

The data gleaned by the state-sponsored project will be available to India's civil service to help with urban planning, traffic management and water and crop monitoring.

Speaking last year, G. Madhavan Nair, the Isro chairman, said: "This will not be a mere browser, but the mechanism for providing satellite images and thematic maps for developmental planning."

There could also be commercial spin-offs. Experts believe that Google Earth is being built as a platform for advertising that could be worth billions, and that Bhuvan will also address one of the issues taxing the web's biggest companies: how to engage users amid the mass of digital detritus that has accumulated on the internet.

Alex Burmaster, of Nielsen, the web analysts, said: "The amount of time that people spend online is reaching a plateaux and websites are battling furiously for attention. Anything that relates to where a person is, saves a user time, and makes the web more relevant - especially geographically - is big news."

However, mapping the shifting contours of the subcontinent may prove particularly difficult. One big challenge for Bhuvan will be keeping up to date with the explosive growth of India's cities.

A report by Gartner, the technology analysts, gave warning of the risk of relying on the "outdated information" used by Google Earth, which is now four years old and has been downloaded some 400 million times.

India's scientists may also be mindful that theirs is not the first country to take on the might of Google.

In 2005, a French plan to create a Eurocentric search engine to defend against the "Anglo-American domination of the net", part of a €2 billion raft of technological grand projets, fizzled without trace.

Undeterred, a year later France unveiled Géoportail, its own answer to Google Earth.

At the time, Jacques Chirac, the then French President, said: "We're engaged in a global competition for technological supremacy ... It's time to go on the offensive." Bloggers quickly labelled the venture "another mind-numbingly stupid boondoggle". Little has been heard of it since.

Strona projektu: http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/

aro_klb

Tutaj śladu po impakcie meteorytu już nie ma Sad

A szkoda...
_________________
Jestem pisowskim aparatczykiem z małym penisikiem.

aro_klb

Już znalazłem nieco więcej o tym meteorycie co uderzył w Grenlandię w 1997r.

Widoczna chmura pyłu.

Jednak pod podanymi współrzędnymi geograficznymi śladu impaktu nie ma.
61 25N, 44 26W
_________________
Jestem pisowskim aparatczykiem z małym penisikiem.

Pawełek

Dla mnie te filmiki to jakaś bzdura, biały królik czy rekin, to pewnie wymysł jakis artystów. Pozatym myślicie ze naprawde znaleźlibyście coś na GE? Zanim by sie coś pojawiło, cenzura dawno by to zamaskowała i byśmy zobaczyli ładne pole uprawne. Także wydaje mi sie ze nic ciekawego dla "nas" tam nie znajdziemy.

aro_klb

Kolejna ciekawostka. A tak z ciekawości oglądałem sobie google earth i trafiłem na
Antarktyde. Długo szukac nie musiałem..

Współrzędne: -70.149693,87.779846
Na moje oko zamazany obiekt ma około 20 km. Z początku myślałem ,że to może byc jakaś stacja badawcza ale długa na 20 km? prędzej jakieś lotnisko albo baza wojskowa. Tylko po co taka wielka baza na terenie tak odległym. Punkt strategiczny? Takich kwiatków na Antarktydzie jest więcej to tylko przykład pierwszy lepszy. Co ciekawsze po nałożeniu czarnego prostokąta pofatygowano się o rozmazanie na biało, zgodnie z otaczającym go śnieżnym krajobrazem.
_________________
Jestem pisowskim aparatczykiem z małym penisikiem.