Monday, May 23, 2005

Site Seeing

We all know that Google Maps now can display satellite images of the location you're mapping. Today's cool site is http://www.googlesightseeing.com. They've got all kinds of interesting things that are captured by the satellite imagery that Google Maps uses:

Like a military bombing/firing range:
http://www.googlesightseeing.com/2005/04/13/b-bomb/

Overlapping season in Utah:
http://www.googlesightseeing.com/2005/04/23/overlapping-seasons/

The martian landscape of my old stomping ground, Wyoming:
http://www.googlesightseeing.com/2005/05/13/mars/

Is it any wonder they chose Wyoming to film parts of Close Encounters of the Third Kind:
http://www.googlesightseeing.com/2005/04/12/devils-tower-wyoming/

And parts of Starship Troopers:
http://www.highways.info/highways/Wyoming/photo_23906.html

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