http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/ Engadget Comments for Honda adding Google Earth to cars (in Japan) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/Apr 5th 2006 4:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/Apr 5th 2006 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/Apr 5th 2006 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/Apr 5th 2006 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/
But considering how slowly Google Earth works on my cable connection, it would take some serious preemptive downloading to make it run smoothly enough to navigate by.]]>Apr 5th 2006 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/Apr 5th 2006 9:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/Apr 5th 2006 9:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/Apr 5th 2006 10:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/Apr 6th 2006 6:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/Apr 6th 2006 8:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/Apr 6th 2006 8:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/
Keep upgrading and throw away the old junk, I like it!]]>Apr 6th 2006 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/
http://www.honda.co.jp/news/2006/c060329.html

This is another case of the Blog Telephone game.]]>Apr 6th 2006 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/05/honda-adding-google-earth-to-cars-in-japan/
I REALLY REALLY REALLY wish that Google Earth supported roads in Japan natively. You can see road maps of a large part of Europe, and of course the US, but not of Japan... Which is odd to me, as the roads are all there on Google Local. When it supports Japanese roads, I`ll rig up my laptop with my car`s GPS system and have some fun. For now, it`s fun to look at places, but has no real use to me.

As for bandwidth - Lowest resolution settings over Air-Edge works quite well.

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The data isn't exportable from the in-vehicle navigation system. You download it from the Internavi website and then view it in Google Earth. Go ahead and try it. Go to this page and click on one of the three buttons labeled Tokyo, Nagoya or Osaka and download the "kml" file.

http://premium-club.jp/PR/lab/lab1.html

If Google Earth is installed on your system, just double click the file after it finishes downloading. The data is updated three times daily.

Kind of anti-climactic, isn't it?]]>Apr 7th 2006 11:20AM