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Chainsaw
   
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 |  |  | Google Goes Satellite
< on 4/5/2005 2:06 PM >
|  | | | Maps.Google.Com has started providing satellite images on their maps interface!
WOOT!
Titan Missile Base - Eastern Colorado
Quid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
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yaggy
  
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Tunnel #8
Gender: Male
| | Re: Google Goes Satellite
<Reply # 1 on 4/5/2005 2:45 PM >
| | | | kick ass. i loved their street map system, now things are even better. these are great images, high zoom, good detail and small watermark. not to mention how good the interface is -- just drag the map to scroll it. those pay services must be getting angry, right about now.
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yaggy
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Tunnel #8
Gender: Male
| | Re: Google Goes Satellite
<Reply # 2 on 4/5/2005 3:22 PM >
| | | | OK - go about 30-40 miles outside of major cities and the satellite imagery goes super low-res. Still a highly useful tool.
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ofberenonehand
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Minn-e-snow-ta
"Where now is Boromir the Fair? He tarries and I grieve."
| | Re: Google Goes Satellite
<Reply # 3 on 4/5/2005 3:32 PM >
| | | | Heard it on the news this morning. Now I don't even care that their directions are crap. They give satellite images!
*edit* The site sure is slow this morning. People must be swarming to it!
[last edit 4/5/2005 3:41 PM by ofberenonehand - edited 1 times]
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rev_skarekroe
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Atlanta, GA
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Google Goes Satellite
<Reply # 4 on 4/5/2005 4:18 PM >
| | | | Even slow, it's fast. Beats the hell out of Mapquest.
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Archer
  
location:
Toronto, ON
Gender: Male
Imperator Sagittario
| | | Re: Google Goes Satellite
<Reply # 5 on 4/5/2005 4:28 PM >
| | | | That's pretty damn sweet, I have to admit.
Sooner or later Google is going to own the Internet, if they keep going like this!
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Noble Donor
location:
Minneapolis
Gender: Male
| | Satellite Imagery from Google Maps!
<Reply # 6 on 4/5/2005 5:07 PM >
| | | | http://maps.google.com has satellite imagery now! This includes, of course, the awesomely huge maps that they show.
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Chainsaw
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Gender: Male
| | | Re: Google Goes Satellite
<Reply # 7 on 4/5/2005 5:10 PM >
| | | | Posted by ofberenonehand
Heard it on the news this morning. Now I don't even care that their directions are crap. They give satellite images!
*edit* The site sure is slow this morning. People must be swarming to it!
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Well, considering since I posted here I've seen the link go up on Fark, Slashdot and Yahoo News I'm not surprised they are swamped.
Quid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
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ofberenonehand
location:
Minn-e-snow-ta
"Where now is Boromir the Fair? He tarries and I grieve."
| | Re: Google Goes Satellite
<Reply # 8 on 4/5/2005 5:11 PM >
| | | | Posted by Chainsaw
Well, considering since I posted here I've seen the link go up on Fark, Slashdot and Yahoo News I'm not surprised they are swamped.
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NPR is also carrying it.
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Freak
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Usually Alaska, now MSP.
Gender: Male
Hypocrite
| | | Re: Google Goes Satellite
<Reply # 9 on 4/5/2005 6:27 PM >
| | | | I'm impressed, this is the first service that actually includes decent satellite coverage of Alaska. They somehow managed to get better resolution than the landsat community images that NASA worldwind uses, which is cool. I still can't see my house, but I can see the old mines and roads and stuff.
Turn off the internet and go play outside.
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Billmac
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Scarborough
Gender: Male
well this ought to be different
| | Re: Google Goes Satellite
<Reply # 10 on 4/5/2005 7:09 PM >
| | | | This is a great service when combined with others like Worldwind and mapquest. I've been using it for 20 minutes and i've already mapped out possible entrances to a half dozen drains in my area.
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Archer
location:
Toronto, ON
Gender: Male
Imperator Sagittario
| | | Re: Google Goes Satellite
<Reply # 11 on 4/5/2005 7:14 PM >
| | | | Beautiful... I just found my house. The detail is unbelievable!
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ColdWater
location:
boston
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Google Goes Satellite
<Reply # 12 on 4/5/2005 7:50 PM >
| | | | Wow, really impressive quality
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Servo
| | Re: Google Goes Satellite
<Reply # 13 on 4/5/2005 7:53 PM >
| | | | Posted by yaggy
OK - go about 30-40 miles outside of major cities and the satellite imagery goes super low-res. Still a highly useful tool.
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Actually, they seem to have high-res urban areas in places I couldn't get it before. Maybe they're just more on top of the latest data from the USGS.
[last edit 4/5/2005 7:53 PM by Servo - edited 1 times]
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ofberenonehand
location:
Minn-e-snow-ta
"Where now is Boromir the Fair? He tarries and I grieve."
| | Re: Google Goes Satellite
<Reply # 14 on 4/5/2005 8:13 PM >
| | | | Funny, my area seems to be in less detail than I have seen it elsewhere. I'll have to try some other areas.
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Decoy
location:
Leslieville
Gender: Male
Oh I have slipped the bonds of earth...
| | Re: Google Goes Satellite
<Reply # 15 on 4/5/2005 8:42 PM >
| | | | Heh. My home town is right on the cusp of the high/low quality.
It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pitty
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DSM2nr203
location:
Saratoga Springs, NY
Gender: Male
| | | Google Satellite Maps!
<Reply # 16 on 4/5/2005 9:24 PM >
| | | | Not sure if this is a repost, but I just read this article and had to try it for myself. For a free service this is pretty damn good. I just found out I have a pond near my house that I never knew about before. Anyway heres the article: http://www.cnn.com...maps.ap/index.html
and heres the site itself: http://maps.google.com/
So if this is a repost feel free to flame away, but this is something too good not to be shared.
P.S. Heres a sample pic of my house
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el nerdo
  
Chief UER Lackey
Gender: Male
What are you, from the Department of Know'm Sayin's? You takin' a Know'm census?
| | | Re: Google Satellite Maps!
<Reply # 17 on 4/5/2005 9:33 PM >
| | | | Posted by DSM2nr203
Not sure if this is a repost, but I just read this article and had to try it for myself. For a free service this is pretty damn good. I just found out I have a pond near my house that I never knew about before. Anyway heres the article: http://www.cnn.com...maps.ap/index.html
and heres the site itself: http://maps.google.com/
So if this is a repost feel free to flame away, but this is something too good not to be shared.
P.S. Heres a sample pic of my house
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You're only the third thread on the subject.
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Jester
location:
Vancouver,B.C. Canada
Gender: Male
Always just out of sight...
| | | Re: Google Goes Satellite
<Reply # 18 on 4/5/2005 9:37 PM >
|  | | | Yeah, this is becoming the "Chernobyl bike girl explorer" thread syndrome...
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Chainsaw
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location:
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Gender: Male
| | | Re: Google Goes Satellite
<Reply # 19 on 4/5/2005 9:53 PM >
| | | | Ummm...okay...
word of advice...
NEVER EVER EVER spend 45 minutes on the web looking for the coordinate location of NORAD while trying to find it on the new maps.google.com site.
Especially while you are sitting in the secure network operations center (Ops Bridge) for the regions largest telecommunications service provider.
For some reason, they frown on it.
They weren't quite satisfied with some of my answers..."I was just playing with the new google satellite imaging service..."
Quid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
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