Attached Link: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/

Well, these guys are offering free maps of planet earth that are so ridiculously big....its just stupid. Here's an exmaple of the biggest; Eastern Hemisphere 21,600 by 21,600 pixels (1km) (400 MB TIFF) That's right, 400mb. These monsters are only available upon request. Well, I'm gonna request, see what happens, lol. BUT, they have lower resolution versions that you can download right now at that link, that are still big and beautiful. (8196x4096 in tiff, and 2048x1024 in tiff and jpg's) FYI, for use in 3D you want the bottom textures. ("Land Surface, Shallow Water, and Shaded Topography") And, I assume you would wrap them spherically. Enjoy! AgentSmith

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wow, you are right and it is breath taking...Sharen

if they give u a link.... maybe u can post it up on freestuff.... that'd be a woot!

LOL...

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They work absolutely excellant wrapped onto a sphere. Done it several times in some of my images.

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that would be freestuff..and to think I was embarrased about making a 40-megabyte prop..;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

400MB in free stuff, with 500 downloads = a lot of GBs. I think the woot would be the fire alarms going off as their server turned into a moltem glob of burning plastic lol

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Attached Link: http://www.renderrring.com/explore/earthpano1.mov

hahaha. I downloaded a few and have made some qtvr panos where you can look around and zoom. Unfortunately, most are too big for practical reasons. This one is the right siz tho...4.5 mb