{"id":94,"date":"2005-04-09T11:10:08","date_gmt":"2005-04-09T19:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=94"},"modified":"2005-04-09T11:15:33","modified_gmt":"2005-04-09T19:15:33","slug":"googles-latest-keyhole-software-joystick-control-of-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s Latest: &#8220;Keyhole&#8221; Software&#8221;, Joystick Control of the Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No games this weekend?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?t=267\">Tired of smacking that poor penguin around?<\/a>  Well, if you liked the &#8220;satellite photo&#8221; feature of Google Maps, you&#8217;re gonna love this one.  Google has aquired &#8220;Keyhole&#8221; software, which provides a video\/animated version of the satellite maps. It&#8217;s like having a joystick control of the planet:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.keyhole.com\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.keyhole.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Be sure to try out the various controls, including &#8220;tilt&#8221;, which makes it seem like you&#8217;re flying a plane.)<\/p>\n<p>Baseball stadiums are easy to spot. (click the box at left if you can&#8217;t see them right away) Fastball fields too, if you know where to find them. Kimberly Wisconsin&#8217;s legendary Sunset Park, Portland&#8217;s Delta Park (Rose Cup) were a couple that I was able to zoom in on.  Even if you decide not to pay the $30 a year to keep the service, the 7 day free trial is worth the time it takes to sign up and download it. A great time waster at work.   Your boss says get it out of your system this weekend, &#8217;cause there&#8217;s real work to be done next week!<\/p>\n<p>Post an address or coordinates in the &#8220;comments&#8221; section if want to share a fastball field or something interesting with the rest of our readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No games this weekend? Tired of smacking that poor penguin around? Well, if you liked the &#8220;satellite photo&#8221; feature of Google Maps, you&#8217;re gonna love this one. Google has aquired &#8220;Keyhole&#8221; software, which provides a video\/animated version of the satellite maps. It&#8217;s like having a joystick control of the planet: http:\/\/www.keyhole.com\/ (Be sure to try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,1,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}