Cool World Map!

[Katja]

Check out www.die.net/earth for a very neat map of the world. It is updated regularly and in a few moments you can see hurricane Katrina going over the USA. (And some other bad weather areas.)

It also shows a large amount of desert in Africa and Asia. And if you look very closely, you'll see me waving to the sky from the Netherlands. (Hope you have very good eyes.)

[The Texan]

Thats a cool map, reminds me of a flat Google Earth but you cant zoom in very far on that map

[©opy®ight]

I don't know what cool about that there is. Open up an atlas and you'll have abetter map. Now Googles Keyhole program is a different story

[The Texan]

The only thing that really impressed me was how it showed what part of the earth was in daylight and what part was in darkness at the time.

[allenb1963]

Google Earth has resolution that allows you to see the carpets being munched in several major cities!

:P

[Katja]

The cool thing -in my opinion- is that it shows you a simple overview of the current weather, world-wide. A week ago you could follow Katrina on these maps. It's not just a map, it's a global weather overview. The map itself is just generated by xPlanet but combining it with current weather information makes it nice to look at.

[|3lack|ce]

Just to add an interesting tangent since it seems to fit here - Nasa's got some good Katrina tracking shots on their site as well:
www.nasa.gov