This sounds really fun:
The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), which is based in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of the sub-continent, will roll-out a rival to Google Earth, the hugely popular online satellite imagery service, by the end of the month.
The project, dubbed Bhuvan (Sanskrit for Earth), will allow users to zoom into areas as small as 10 metres wide, compared to the 200 metre wide zoom limit on Google Earth.
Imagine! I reckon ten metres to be about the same as 10 yards, right? Incredible. You can zoom right down to Suri's jungle gym if you want.
Re my headline here, by the way: If you have never done the following, go do it now. You'll get an immense kick out of it.
Go to Google Maps and set the view on Satellite (not Map). Type in 3400 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC. You'll see a big traffic circle (circus). Inside that circle is the vice-president's home. Zoom in your view to, say, the second-tightest zoom shot. Compare your images inside and outside the circle.
Next go type in 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC. Zoom in again to the second-tightest zoom shot.
Having compared these two shots you will now know exactly how insane our current vice-president is.
