thanks Con, very interesting product - I've seens raves about Google
Map but when I checked it out a while back I think it only covered the
USA, unfortunately<br>
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This product does cover Australia:<br>
<a href="http://earth.google.com/data.html">http://earth.google.com/data.html</a><br>
<a href="http://earth.google.com/coverage/australia_lg.jpg">http://earth.google.com/coverage/australia_lg.jpg</a><br>
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shows the areas of australia covered by Google Earth<br>
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<a href="http://earth.google.com/tour/">http://earth.google.com/tour/</a><br>
<font size="-1">Note: Street address searches are limited to the
US, UK and Canada only.</font><br><br>
<a href="http://earth.google.com/product_comparison.html">http://earth.google.com/product_comparison.html</a><br>
table displaying comparisons b/w their free and commercial releases<br>
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<a href="http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php/Cat/0">http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php/Cat/0</a><br>
the forum contains an educational section but the answer to the following question was a bit cryptic:<br>
<font class="post">is google earth (the free version) legal to use in schools (k-12)??<br>
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<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/20/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Con Zymaris</b> <<a href="mailto:conz@cyber.com.au">conz@cyber.com.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Haven't seen mention of this tool on any of these forums, so on the<br>off-chance you haven't stumbled across it yet, check out:<br><br> <a href="http://earth.google.com/">http://earth.google.com/</a><br><br>It's not open source, but it's an awesome educational resource. ;-)
<br><br>Enjoy.<br><br>Con Zymaris, Convenor<br>Open Source Victoria<br><a href="http://www.osv.org.au/">http://www.osv.org.au/</a><br><br>--<br>___________________________________________________________________________<br>
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