I just downloaded Google Earth from
Totally awesome. I can see my shed from space!!! (well low earth orbit I suppose)
DI just downloaded Google Earth from
Totally awesome. I can see my shed from space!!! (well low earth orbit I suppose)
D
Whereabouts are you? Some areas are mapped better than others but I agree, it's a good bit of kit. Have you tried tilting the map when you get down low? That's the future of mapping, that is!
Si
You can see anything from space with sufficient magnification ;) Google Earth is good, but sadly photos of most of the UK (and world) is poor resolution.
alex
Also...viewing the English Channel as a puddle, turning from Dover to France is quite fascinating!
Si
They'll have to do a lot better, resolutionwise, to make it worthwhile. All I'm getting, anywhere I've looked, is vague green and brown blobs.
Only certain areas of the UK/planet appear to be on the database at full resolution. One must assume that the database will be added to over time.
Take a look at central London, or the Grand Canyon. Also look at Boston (Massachusetts USA) and turn on "3D Buildings" option. Amazing.
I want a 3D sheds option.
D
I can just about make out the building that contains your office...
I've been playing with it for a couple of days. It's not good. In fact it's evil. I should be doing other things ... :-(
Mary
Campus is rather... blurry
"vortex2" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@pins.co.uk:
Delighted to be able to see the cars outside our house in High Wycombe. (Maybe that should be 'with imagination just about make out'.) But looking elsewhere has indeed been a bit disappointing sometimes.
It's possibleto see cars, buses, boats etc. easily in London - but no evidence otherwise of people ...
Now off to look at your car :-)
Mary
It's generally agreed that some 10cm is about the best that can be done. Because of atmospheric turbulence, and resolution limits of telescope mirrors.
What is it about High Wycombe that requires such high resolution positional data ... hmmm; could it be the ... ?
Yes, I wondered that. It must be fifteen years since I used to go to HW but I can't remember anything about it. Even the high res. view didn't help.
Mary
So why don't we all have car numberplates on the roof in 20cm lettering so we can all be tracked from space[1]?
If it saves just one kiddy in the war against terrorism ...
Owain
[1] Police cars already do have ID numbers on the roof, as do some other vehicles.
How about GoogleMoon?
Fascinating - especially when you get in really close.
Mary
have to zoom in close to see the real secrets revealed.
Hehehe!
Si
"Mary Fisher" wrote in news:42de0eae$0$23043$ snipped-for-privacy@master.news.zetnet.net:
Bomber Command? Hughenden Manor was actually a map making centre during WWII - supplying them a few miles down the road to Bomber Command HQ. (I hadn't realised all of this until we walked there last weekend.)
No, Baby son did his Masters there... and we know some beekeepers who live in HW too.
Mary
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