Goggles- Google Maps Flight Simulator
Warning- don't click the start button until you have selected a location or you'll be sat there for ages waiting while nothing happens.
Goggles is another Web toy- a simple mash up of Google maps plus a 3D aircraft using Flash. Using the cursor keys you can climb or dive and bank, all the time scrolling around the location. If you dive too low, you'll crash and burn. You are equally limited in how high you can go- this is not surprising as Google Maps doubles up the distance with each level as you zoom out. As the plane's on-screen speed is constant this would effectively make it fly twice as fast as on the previous level.
It's well done- by developer Mark Caswell-Daniels to showcase what he can do - he is available for development work.
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Posted: May 25th, 2007 under 3d, game, mash-up, simulator.
Tags: 3d, Flight simulator, google maps, mash-up
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