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title: Google Earth Released
date: "2005-06-30T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 622
description: I’m exploring the newly released, free version of Google Earth. It features impressive satellite imagery where you can tilt the view to fly through city skylines and find your own home, much like a real-life SimCity.
keywords: [google earth, satellite imagery, gis, google earth hacks, 3d visualization, mapping]
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[Google Earth](http://earth.google.com/) released. It's free. Related links: [Google Earth Hacks](http://www.googleearthhacks.com/)

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## Comments

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- **S Anand** _1 Jul 2005 12:13 pm_:
  It shows [my house](/blog/assets/flickr-newbury-park_22802803_o-jpg.webp).
- **Ram** _1 Jul 2005 4:16 pm_:
  At my first sight i thought that this picture was taken from simsity game.I coudn't imagine that this picture from Google maps are real !!!
- **S Anand** _4 Jul 2005 5:00 am_:
  It gets better than SimCity. You can tilt the view of a city and fly by the skyline on Google Earth.

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