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Google Satellite Images

CBL4

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Google now provides satellite images along with maps. Here is a link to near where I live.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=700+Washington+Ave,Bremerton,+WA&spn=0.007918,0.008154&t=k&hl=en

At full zoom, I can see my house. If you care, the navy ship at the bottom is the Turner Joy which was the boat involved in Gulf of Tonkin incident. If you zoom out a little more, things get blurred presumably because there is a navy base there. (The big blurry things are aircraft carriers.) If you keep zooming out, you can get a cool view of Puget Sound.

I am not sure if this is useful but it is fun.

CBL
 
Strangely, the US Capitol Building blurred, but the White House is not.
 
The images of where I used to live seem to have been captured on a Saturday: the office carpark is empty, yet that of the mall is full (the mall was closed on a Sunday).

Neat pictures. I can see a dark coloured car parked outside the apartment building in the space where I would always park. I wonder if it was mine.
 
Sweet.

I like National Geographic's MapMachine because you can toggle between different views such as satellite, arial photo, USGS topo, street map. The latter is particularly helpful in finding a specific location, which can be pretty tough on arial photo or satellite view, especially when zoomed in real close. One big drawback is that NG plants its watermark over the arial photos (to get clean ones, you gotta buy 'em). Panning around on the google map is much nicer (faster) than NG.
 
CBL wrote:
I can see my house. If you care,
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So...are you going to leave that sliding glass door unlocked? I'll only be a few minutes. Nice Plasma.:D
 
It appears to be the Keyhole data, but you can't zoom in as close. I actually bought access to Keyhole, since they have the area around Palm Springs in ultra-high res.

http://www.keyhole.com

Google now owns Keyhole.

--Terry.
 
Although I've not used Google's version, I've used terraserver before in the past and played a practical joke on my friends. I found their house, circled and labelled a few landmarks on their property, and emailed them with the message, "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU". They were suprised as hell.

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wollery said:
Ooh what a shock! It only covers the US. :rolleyes:
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First of all, I'm sure we have many satellites looking down on you lot.

Second of all, learn to send up your own satellites and then you can check out your own pictures.

:D
 
If you enjoy the Google Maps feature, you might want to download the NASA World Wind software. It lets you zoom in anywhere in the world, with different overlays to choose from. Urban areas have super high-res 0.1 meter resolution available. A cool thing about World Wind is that you can view the scenery from different angles, it shows the relief of the terrain in 3D. It does this by taking the flat photo data and combining with the USGS topographic info, to stretch the photos and render them 3D. It's definitely software that makes you want a higher-horsepower computer.
 
Canada too... I typed my address in and it scared the ◊◊◊◊ outta me...
 
My neighborhood is part clear, part blurry. As far as I know, there are no military targets in my area, but perhaps I was misinformed....
 
So...are you going to leave that sliding glass door unlocked? I'll only be a few minutes. Nice Plasma
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I actually chose a different address because it centered things better. But if you promise to bring me a plasma TV, I can give you the real one.

Unfortunately, I no longer live in waterfront property but I still have great view of the water and the bridge.

CBL
 
Ipecac said:
First of all, I'm sure we have many satellites looking down on you lot.

Second of all, learn to send up your own satellites and then you can check out your own pictures.

:D
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Certainly the ones we do have looking down on lots other than us make the resolution of this one pale by comparison. There used to be an old adage that they could read the letters of a license plate. While I doubt that was true when the adage came about, I don't doubt it is true now. Heck, they can probably read the address on a letter being placed in your mailbox by now.
 
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