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Offline SteveD CB500F

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What have you found on Google Earth ??
« on: January 03, 2006, 08:02:25 AM »
I found this while scanning my route to work...

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=billingbear&ll=51.447535,-0.801916&spn=0.012933,0.040770&t=h&hl=en

He's heading for Heathrow.
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Re: What have you found on Google Maps ??
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2006, 09:39:10 AM »
Had to zoom way in to see what you were talking about, but that's cool--especially the shadow on the ground.

I think I've posted it here befor.  You can see my beater truck parked in front of my house--complete with rusty hood.

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Re: What have you found on Google Maps ??
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2006, 09:42:31 AM »
i couldn't get close enough...do i need Google Earth to see it?
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« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2006, 09:45:18 AM »
Quote from: cbjunkie on January 03, 2006, 09:42:31 AM
i couldn't get close enough...do i need Google Earth to see it?
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Re: What have you found on Google Maps ??
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2006, 10:04:56 AM »
oh fercryinoutloud...i was looking at the marker - i thought maybe it was a self-portrait   :-[  ::)

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Re: What have you found on Google Maps ??
« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2006, 10:08:24 AM »
Kind of spooky. Now every time I go out, I'm going to look up.  ::)
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Re: What have you found on Google Maps ??
« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2006, 10:44:43 AM »
Using Google Earth, cut-n-paste these coordinates: 41 51' 53.25n 88 11'38.32w
You gotta zoom waaaaaaay in to see it.....someone with a lawnmower and too much time on their hands.
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Re: What have you found on Google Maps ??
« Reply #7 on: January 03, 2006, 11:26:48 AM »
cb: yea, sorry I forgot to mention that you needed Google Earth

Jotor: thanks for posting the picture, Google won't let you "save as" - how did you do it?

SteveF: reminds me of a photo I took in Devon last summer. Someone had "carved" the same word into the heather on the hill of the opposite bank of the estuary.  Unfortunately it didn't come out very well in the photo.

Bob: I guess the pilot would be quite paranoid if he knew...
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Re: What have you found on Google Maps ??
« Reply #8 on: January 03, 2006, 11:44:45 AM »
Quote from: SteveD CB500F on January 03, 2006, 11:26:48 AM

Jotor: thanks for posting the picture, Google won't let you "save as" - how did you do it?


Download this screen capture tool--easy to use, haven't had any virus or adware problems with it and it's....................free!

http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm
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« Reply #9 on: January 03, 2006, 06:40:00 PM »
Hmmmm Anybody looked at any Nude Beaches. ???  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What have you found on Google Maps ??
« Reply #10 on: January 03, 2006, 07:22:53 PM »
I have not found anything really cool using google earth or maps, even though I play with them constantly.  But I did find this on Terra Server ages ago.  It is an aerial shot of my old college campus and this is my jeep parked out in the dirt.  I know it is mine cause: A. I never drove anywhere.  B.  I always parked there.  C.  The image was shot the first semester of my senior year.  Now there is Senior apartments where I used to park.
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Re: What have you found on Google Earth ??
« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2006, 12:55:09 PM »
This is marree man in outback australia ,nobody is really sure who did it but its a couple of klm long.
Another shot of some sort of battle in lybia
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« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2006, 03:32:43 PM »
Quote from: Bob Wessner on January 03, 2006, 10:08:24 AM
Kind of spooky. Now every time I go out, I'm going to look up.  ::)

Time to hurry up and hide the bikes before the sattelite sees them  ;D ::)
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« Reply #13 on: January 04, 2006, 03:33:54 PM »
Quote from: Jughead on January 03, 2006, 06:40:00 PM
Hmmmm Anybody looked at any Nude Beaches. ???  ;D ;D ;D

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Re: What have you found on Google Earth ??
« Reply #14 on: January 04, 2006, 05:05:58 PM »
Quote from: chrometank on January 04, 2006, 12:55:09 PM
This is marree man in outback australia ,nobody is really sure who did it but its a couple of klm long.

What's a marree man?
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Re: What have you found on Google Earth ??
« Reply #15 on: January 04, 2006, 05:43:05 PM »
Here's the satellite image taken soon after the Burning Man festival in NW Nevada.  You can tell it's after and not before because all the roads are worn in and very visible, and judging by the size and location this was most likely taken in September of 2000 or 2001.  I used to work there in the summers (building and tearing down), so chances are I'm somewhere in this picture. ;D

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=gerlach,+nv&btnG=Search&ll=40.754019,-119.232903&spn=0.033419,0.086517&t=h

For scale purposes, the pentagon-shaped perimeter fence is seven miles long.
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« Reply #16 on: January 05, 2006, 05:02:43 PM »
maree man apeared in the dessert a couple of years ago,its a drawing of a aboriginal man with spear.Some people say it was done by army engineers who were passing thru the area.cant remember how big it is but its @#%*#@! big.
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« Reply #17 on: January 05, 2006, 05:27:41 PM »
no way engineers did that...or an abo - smacks of artistry...don't you have artists there?

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« Reply #18 on: January 05, 2006, 05:31:41 PM »
Here's the South Pole.  If you go there and spin the earth around, the little compass symbol spins around too..................... 8)
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Re: What have you found on Google Maps ??
« Reply #19 on: January 05, 2006, 05:50:52 PM »
Quote from: Jughead on January 03, 2006, 06:40:00 PM
Hmmmm Anybody looked at any Nude Beaches. ???  ;D ;D ;D

I work for a government agency and we do aerial photography for highway expansion and planning. Awhile back we got some film back and as i'm going thru the film I notice a person in a pool in their backyard........decided to zoom in on the digital image and theres a woman floating topless on a raft in her pool......JACKPOT!!! Needless to say....within minutes...every dude in the office was in my cubical......bunch of pervs!!  ;D

Amazing....we take photos a few thousand feet above the ground and I can zoom in on a truck at an intersection and see the driver and all the junk sitting on his dashboard....and we are a non-military agency.....just think what they have??? I know they have the same equipment as us, but with some extras........

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