The big mountains

[low_delta]

I found Mount Everest and K2. I had to check the altitude of pretty much every mountain in the Himalays, because you have to get in close before they'll show you the names, and sometimes you just see the local names.

I'd always thought that the two mountains were near each other. Everest is to the east of Khatmandu (which is to the Northeast of India), while K2 is in the north of Pakistan.

And the elevations given by Google Earth are not exact. In some cases, they are off by a couple thousand feet.

Comments

[vwip.livejournal.com]

I didn't know they were missing.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Another fun thing to do is go up into the crater of Mount St. Helens, and spin around so you're looking back out. Mt. Everest has some pretty cool glacial canyons, too.

[shoo.livejournal.com]

I LOVE GOOGLE EARTH!

I fly to England and other parts of the world. I wish flying was really that fast..lol

Do you know how often they update the photos?

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

They can be a couple of years out of date. I wish they'd update Wisconsin. There are only a few areas that have any kind of resolution at all. Your mom's house is pretty clear... even though I can't remember which street she was on.

[methos.livejournal.com]

Found Everest, took me ages. Ain't it great :)

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's fun looking at airports and catching planes in flight.

[methos.livejournal.com]

Try the Lancaster bomber over Huntingdon 52 20 10.87N 0 11 43.34W

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's pretty cool.

Did you see this article (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/14/google_earth_competition_results/page11.html) at The Register. They have a picture of a U2 in flight, along with several dozen more cool pics.

[rdsc.livejournal.com]

I like the guys sitting in their back garden drinking beer, (I think it's in that link). There's definately a "Rear Window" kind of story in there somewhere.