From fork-admin@xent.com Mon Sep 9 10:46:28 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.example.com Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0F2116F21 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 10:46:00 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Mon, 09 Sep 2002 10:46:00 +0100 (IST) Received: from xent.com ([64.161.22.236]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8956EC00328 for ; Mon, 9 Sep 2002 06:06:15 +0100 Received: from lair.xent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4FC42942C3; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 22:03:03 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: fork@example.com Received: from relay.pair.com (relay1.pair.com [209.68.1.20]) by xent.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 651382941D9 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 2002 22:02:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 71750 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2002 05:04:58 -0000 Received: from adsl-67-119-24-60.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (HELO golden) (67.119.24.60) by relay1.pair.com with SMTP; 9 Sep 2002 05:04:58 -0000 X-Pair-Authenticated: 67.119.24.60 Message-Id: <02f701c257be$6f1d9e50$640a000a@golden> From: "Gordon Mohr" To: References: Subject: earthviewer apps Re: whoa MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: fork-admin@xent.com Errors-To: fork-admin@xent.com X-Beenthere: fork@example.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Friends of Rohit Khare List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 22:04:51 -0700 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.3 required=7.0 tests=AWL,INVALID_MSGID,KNOWN_MAILING_LIST,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT_OE version=2.50-cvs X-Spam-Level: Gary Lawrence Murphy cynicizes: > Hmmm, just as I thought. In other words, it has no practical uses > whatsoever ;) Tourism is the world's largest industry. Using this to preview your travels, or figure out where you are, would be very valuable. Online gaming continues to grow. Screw "Britannia", real-life Britain would be a fun world to wander/ conquer/explore virtually, in role-playing or real- time-strategy games. And of course, as James Rogers points out, it's an ideal display substrate for all sorts of other overlaid data. Maps are great, photrealistic 3-D maps of everywhere which can have many other static and dynamic datasets overlaid are spectacular. (Combining those last two thoughts: consider the static world map, in faded colors, with patches here-and-there covered by live webcams, stitched over the static info in bright colors... it'd be like the "fog of war" view in games like Warcraft, over the real world.) - Gordon