Goggles: the Google Maps flight sim

Thanks to Tomski for this one: Goggles, the Google Maps flight sim. Flight sim is a bit of an exaggeration, it's more of a fly over, but it's just GREAT. Your wee plane flies over a Google map. You can crash it. Hurrah!

It needs expansion. For instance, you're looking at "London", but frankly god only knows which bit. Some arse end of Putney, probably, and really you want to go divebomb the Houses of Parliament, don't you?

However, as a sweetly tiddly free game, a one-man-band product and being todally web 2.0, I pronounce this as brilliant. Well done that Mark Caswell-Daniels, I say.

Comments

[bunnyhero]

wheeeeeee fun!

[edcrane]

That's the Serpentine in Hyde Park, near the Lido and Diana mehmorial.

[Chrislunch]

I fell back on my old flying instructor's advice (follow road until you meet bigger road, follow that road until a bigger road, until you know which road you're following and what direction you're pointing in).

I managed to find my way to the Euston road, recognised the Planetarium, then had a lovely North London fly over Regents Park, over Camden, up over Archway, Highgate, East Finchley then along the North Circular, did a few circuits over my house to date the photography (over a year old - the garage is still in our garden) then trundled back along the North Circular, down the A10, along White Hart Lane for a celebratory few spins over the venerable home of Spurs.

Fantastic.

[David Hayward]

Interesting :)

You start just south of the Serpentine in Hyde Park. Kensington Road is south past the grass, Albert hall is west, Thames is east.

I flew around until I recognised the Albert Hall, then looked up a map because I don't know London.

Traced my route back from the Tate Modern with another window open on Google maps. Took a brief detour to nail Tower Bridge while I was at it too ;)

[Jonathan]

I wonder if this page has been visited by MI5 yet ...