Reply to: Google Ocean

[cojak]

That's brilliant. I played it 3 times in a row...

Wonder if they've got anything on Torpedo Alley? Thinking about diving that next year...

They must have Scapa.

Oh and don't forget the Maldives and Galapagos....

[BrowneIssue]

Sorry...

Great. Will it show the shallowest route to Australia? I'll want to go by stilts.

shoallest.

You would be needing it to consider tides and I doubt very, very, very much indeed that Google Earth will be providing that data in any short time scale. It will, however, give you the depth of the sea bed from (most likely) mean sea level. So you could only determine the 'shoallest' (hydrographer's terrminology ) route.

Using Google Earth for nautical navigation by stilts would be unsafe. (well, duh, but some poor sod will die using it...)

You learn some useless crap working in I.T. !

[TimberWolf]

Great. Will it show the shallowest route to Australia? I'll want to go by stilts.

[BrowneIssue]

I think kit is very rude.......

Kit? It?

If you mean the name, it is definitely not rude; and there's an 'e' in the middle.

[BrilloPad]

10/10 !

Now work out what the name means...

I think kit is very rude.......

[VectraMan]

10/10 !

Now work out what the name means...

The boat?

[BrowneIssue]

Brown : Is your avatar from Das Boot ? Class film that !

10/10 !

Now work out what the name means...

[threaded]

Got it working on the iPhone. Cool.

[threaded]

Can't get it to play in Android. Just give me a minute or two though.

[Board Game Geek]

Brown : Is your avatar from Das Boot ? Class film that !

[BrowneIssue]

Or perhaps like that game in the arcades, when I was a lad, and you have a proper periscope and had to fire torpedoes at boats ? It even went "ping" !

NF, did you want an idea for a multi-user mashup?

Or even, if you don't fancy knocking up a wargame, Second Life Underwater?

[Board Game Geek]

Is it like a virtual fish tank because that would be ace !

Or perhaps like that game in the arcades, when I was a lad, and you have a proper periscope and had to fire torpedoes at boats ? It even went "ping" !

I think the next big Google app, based on their history so far, will be Google Clit.

Our prayers as men have been answered ! Woohoo !

[Cyberman]

Can it show us some of those valuable shipwrecks so I can go in search of the gold !!

[BrowneIssue]

The reactions of the International Maritime Organisation, the International Hydrographic Organisation and the UK Hydrographic Office should be interesting. Especially after the first passenger ship that uses it sinks.

"But Google said... "

[scooterscot]

I can imagine it will be very useful for Astute submarine helmsmen...

Windows pop-up "Please upgrade to version 23.2 before plotting this course"