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Google Earth. I finally installed it and of course had to play around locating and pinning the places I'd been or that were important to me. Nostalgia and a new toy are an odd mix.
This program is a hoot, It lets you be superman and fly around the globe, looking at actual satellite views, current weather, and imagery. The closer you zoom, the more detail you get, it even lets you zoom in to sidewalk level in some areas.
You are NOT getting live views. Some of them are several years old, but still quite interesting. In many areas, you can select the historical view and scroll back through earlier views of the land and see the changes.
Sometimes there is an odd patchwork effect to the look of the terrain, as it is spliced together from satellite photos taken at different times of the day and season, though there are few winter views as snow obscures terrain.
There are a number of overlays you can turn on and off, like weather (current), roads, traffic (current) and interesting places.
Running your cursor over the screen shows you the elevations. You can switch to a flight sim mode wherever you are and see what it would be like to fly over the area. You can turn on a layer that shows the topography of the bottoms of the oceans.
It also links geotagged photos and videos from Youtube and Flickr and ties seamlessly into Google Streets to give you a street level 360 degree view on most roads and streets in the U.S. Even out of the way places like Star Meadows are on Street View.
This is from Google Streetview
The entrance to the Song Cua Lon river, Cau Mau peninsula, Vietnam.(Me) (Home)
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