suggested Live Web Cam shots on Google Earth

Whenever I introduce someone to Google Earth (someone who's never heard of or seen it) they always say, "can you see people walking around and stuff?", and I have to reply, "No, its not real time live cam, its satellite images taken from space and pasted on a graphic globe."

It's got me thinking, and I'm certain it could be done... have a live cam format, with icons for live web cams. The user would click on the icon and the window box opens a live cam shot for that location. For example, in California, there would be live shots for Golden Gate Bridge, and Yosemite Falls, etc...

at oGEC forums a 4500+ webcams collection posted by ingooppe is available, also GE has a Webcams.travel layer in Layers/Gallery.


source page webcams.travel states that there are some 34.754 (34.754 webcams are currently active out of totally 66.287) cams available. -check the one for Golden Gate Bridge HERE.

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so they already exist, cool, but what I had in mind was automatically, kinda like what street view does.

I think, what you talkin about is some personal virtual appearance (and free movement) in a real time processing network of webcams (ghost in the wire) with the use of a GE layer or tool.
well, many person (even more software) do this already with other tools. (we really do living in a world like in the Matrix.)
we: GE fans know the best that there is no such remote desert, no such deep forest you could hide within, hidden from robotic satellite eyes and what we see is only for public. -imagine, what technologies can exist being "kept confidental"!?

so what you are thinking about is not impossible and who knows...
probably one day -and sooner than we think- Google will find filthy few million for development of such a new "toy", a new GE Layer feature with all its infrastructural background.

I think you can wait for it by a good chance!