Google it...

Has anyone else had a chance to play with this thing? If not you should. Someone at work came accross it a few weeks ago and it has cost the company many man hours since. Basically, it is a small program that uses your broadband connection to show real time images of the entire globe. Not realtime as in people are driving and flying around but as in you can move and zoom to any spot you want to see. It also can function as mapquest or other mapping services do which is pretty neat and it has many abilities regarding landmarks and boundary features. Over all it is has a lot of coolness factor if not a ton of purpose. It your machine isn't up to speed, which is to say more than 4 years old, it may not run very well but for the rest of us it is worth a look. It is of course free.

Google Earth Download Page

Part of the fun is its already large following at places like Keyhole where users from all over find things that they think are neat and then post small downloadable files that will zoom you into the location they are interested in. Some are neat landmarks while others are strange looking objects or happenings caught on the imagery. The images are a combination of high quality aerials (grey or color) and lesser quality color images. As you zoom in on something give it a minute or so to update the view and things should get clearer as you get close to your target. If you want to type your address in the search box it will take you straight to the spot. Cool stuff.