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Rocking-M

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« on: February 14, 2007, 06:14:26 PM »
A pretty neat little program with satellite images, thankfully not real time :) ;)

Download it and see what you think!
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Re: Goggle Earth
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2007, 06:19:28 PM »
There's a lot of fun to be had cruising around on that program RM.  Some areas seem to have much higher resolution than others.  I can see my house and shop in my 50' wide lot quite clearly.. I think I can see your red F2 leaning up against the garden shed in your back yard too. :D
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Re: Goggle Earth
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2007, 08:19:05 PM »
now that google owns sketchup as well, they've been working on "3D'ing" many places.  sketchup was born in boulder by the way  :)  that can explain denver being mostly built in 3D by now.  (because boulder is not far from denver  ;) )
check this out...
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2007/01/awesome_3d_buildings.html
click on the video.
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Re: Goggle Earth
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2007, 09:23:39 PM »
If you look up my address in CO you'll see my big white ass mooning you from my deck in 3D!  ;D :D
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Re: Goggle Earth
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2007, 09:37:32 PM »
You only just discovered it RM, it's a fantastic toy ;D


There was a link going round of a great shot of someones house in the UK, I'll see if I can find it.

You can't actually see his house, because at the time the arial shot was taken the RAF's BoB memorial Lancaster was directly overhead :o




Nellis AFB is well worth a look to, there's a couple of F117's on the apron, amongst a bunch of other stuff 8)
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Re: Goggle Earth
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2007, 10:50:25 PM »
its great fun i can track down to my street and house..fun toy
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« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2007, 05:08:05 AM »
Hey David, your link is better than mine, all I see for Check Virginia is a big
blur :) But, your shop is marked on the Canadian Ministry of Defense most watch
sites. Seems you have stocked piled an excessive amount of spit balls and
are considered a threat :)


Heffay, neat 3D, but the cars looked like smashed beer cans ;D ;D
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Re: Goggle Earth
« Reply #7 on: February 15, 2007, 09:33:22 AM »
Quote from: RxmanGriff on February 14, 2007, 09:23:39 PM
If you look up my address in CO you'll see my big white ass mooning you from my deck in 3D!  ;D :D
Wouldn't that be 4D?  ;D

3D Denver looks like MS Flight Simulator Denver!
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Re: Goggle Earth
« Reply #8 on: February 15, 2007, 11:51:06 AM »
Anyone have the address of a Nudist Colony.  :o
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« Reply #9 on: February 15, 2007, 02:31:34 PM »
Try Brazil Bobby :)
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Re: Goggle Earth
« Reply #10 on: February 15, 2007, 05:15:42 PM »
I've heard some people have set up websites with GPS coordinates you can enter in to Google Earth and find such things as women sunbathing, etc... :o

What scares me is people have the time to comb through billions of square miles of Earth's surface to find this stuff! :P
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Re: Goggle Earth
« Reply #11 on: February 15, 2007, 05:19:55 PM »
Well Jonesy, where are they ???
I'm googling and finding nothing to ogle... :D
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Re: Google Earth
« Reply #12 on: February 15, 2007, 05:32:37 PM »
<  taking a class this semester "web visualization / e-participation"
so far we've checked out google earth, arc gis, lots of e-vocabulary like e-democracy... now we're in the process of html and web design.  very fast paced since we're only in week 4. 
anyway, about the combing the globe... i'd bet that most of those sites don't really do much combing but, have coordinates submitted by the mighty power of the web and its ability to tell us anything with the proper keywords. 
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