Google Earth or Wikimapia?
Recently Ive had this craze to find a bit more about the geography of the earth,where exactly I live and so on.
A quick look at the web lead me to two useful softwares that could allow me to do the same,Google Earth and Wikimapia.I started off with Google Earth as it had the big tag of Google along with it.I found it reasonably good but not with enough detail.I couldnt even find my street name,forget my home.I thought this as obvious as it wasnt possible to put in every street name and home of every city,town and village in the world.
However on trying out Wikimapia,I was pleasantly surprised.It had absolutely everything from my home,my university,my favorite store and what not.
Google Earth is however growing and this news seems to back that up.
Id like you guys to make your own minds up on both Google Earth and Wikimapia as some of you might find the former better.Maybe some of you might find something better than both these,but Im not getting my hopes up.Chao.
Matt said,
September 29, 2006 at 10:51 pm
Hi, I actually did a writeup comparing Wikimapia and Google Earth the other day at my WIkimapia blog. Both, I think, are very useful tools depending on what you want to do.
As far as the resolutions go, both, in theory, should be the same since Wikimapia uses Google Maps for its images (although I have heard that, for some reason, Google Maps will sometimes update its imagery before Google Earth, no idea why).
archiearchive said,
September 30, 2006 at 1:28 am
I hadn’t realised there was a wikimapia. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
btw – could you be described as a “curmudgeon”?
sid19840 said,
September 30, 2006 at 4:09 am
Thanks for the comments.
Matt-I like your article on Wikimapia as well,very nice.Never knew about the Google Maps thing,I just wrote what I thought at the time.
Archie-Good to see that my article helped in a different way.As for my description,I’ll leave that to you.