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Greg · Jul 6, 2005

Be sure to take a flight through the Himalayas:

K2: 35°53'N, 76°30'E
Everest: 27°58'N, 86°55'E

bvibert · Jul 6, 2005

I don't know if this has been mentioned already, but if you use the directions feature you can then get it to fly through the route that it picked out, following all the curves in the road.

Paul · Jul 6, 2005

There's a MB associated withit as well. I'll try to find the link, some people have found some interesting things, and they do some cool scavenger hunts ala Geocaching.

ALLSKIING · Jul 6, 2005

From what I can tell looking around my area is that the imgs are about 3 1/2 to 4 years old.

ALLSKIING · Jul 6, 2005

Greg said:
riverc0il said:

interesting how it can't show depth well on buildings which makes sense because the photo was shot from essentially straight down. so the lower you put the angle in boston, the flatter the buildings become whereas lowering the camera position in the mountains shows depth. whew, one hour of my evening has been totally lost!

Click to expand...

For Boston and other major cities you can toggle on a 3D model of the buildings. Click the "Buildings" checkbox. I'm really digging this!

Clear img of ground 0.

bvibert · Jul 7, 2005

Cool, if you look at the ski areas in MA they still had some snow on the trails when the photos were taken! 8)

Link to .kmz file that will open the view up in Google Earth if your interested

awf170 · Jul 7, 2005

i wonder why only some places are in high quality, also i wonder if they real versin(this is the beta) will be all high quality(that would be insane)

like for NH they already have high quality satalite images, why dont they use them
http://www.terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=12&Z=19&X=402&Y=6128&W=3

Greg · Jul 7, 2005

bvibert said:
Cool, if you look at the ski areas in MA they still had some snow on the trails when the photos were taken! 8)

Link to .kmz file that will open the view up in Google Earth if your interested

Link to .kmz file that will open the view up in Google Earth if your interested

Link to .kmz file that will open the view up in Google Earth if your interested

Clicking those KMZ files is pretty cool. Thanks. It's neat to jump between those three ski areas.

bvibert · Jul 7, 2005

Greg said:
Clicking those KMZ files is pretty cool. Thanks. It's neat to jump between those three ski areas.

Glad it worked for ya, I wasn't sure if I did them right. When you open them does it place extra Placemarks in your Temporary Places folder? I couldn't figure out how to stop it from doing that.

Paul · Jul 7, 2005

One thing thats interesting as well, some of the "newer" images on GE are older than the ones that were on Keyhole 2.0. for example, when I initially d-loaded Keyhole back in Jan, the image for South Philly showed a completed Lincoln Financial Field and Citizens Bank Park, and a rubble field where Veterans Stadium was. The Eagles logo was visible in the endzone, so I'd guess the date sometime in the fall of '04. (Fall of '03 CB Park wasn't done) Now, LFF is under construction, CB Park is barely started, and there's a diamond visible in a still-standing Vet. that would put it at about Spring / Summer '03.

Why an older image?

Greg · Jul 7, 2005

bvibert said:
Greg said:

Clicking those KMZ files is pretty cool. Thanks. It's neat to jump between those three ski areas.

Click to expand...

Glad it worked for ya, I wasn't sure if I did them right. When you open them does it place extra Placemarks in your Temporary Places folder? I couldn't figure out how to stop it from doing that.

Nope. Doesn't add them for me. Speaking of the "Temporary Places" folder, check out the "Sightseeing" entries. The Grand Canyon and Mount St. Helens are particularly cool. You can also fly over the Mount Hood which is SSE of Mount St. Helens.

ALLSKIING · Jul 7, 2005

My wife asked me this AM if I went to bed or was I on Google earth all night. :lol: I won't answer.

:wink:

ctenidae · Jul 7, 2005

My 5 year old Toshiba laptop doesn't even get close to meeting the requirements.
Not
Even
Close.

And I doubt work would appreciate my efforts.

awf170 · Jul 7, 2005

fly over would look awsome on a really good computer... cause my computer cant load the images totally into perfect resolution before i get to them

TramperKen · Jul 7, 2005

:lol: It works, it works. I still don't understand why I had to wait to download but I did and it works.

ALLSKIING · Jul 7, 2005

ctenidae said:
My 5 year old Toshiba laptop doesn't even get close to meeting the requirements.
Not
Even
Close.

And I doubt work would appreciate my efforts.

Time for an upgrade..its worth it.

ctenidae · Jul 8, 2005

I'd liek to upgrade, but other things have priority- younger brother getting married in Montana (it's expensive to get to MT!), I want new skis...I'll stick with the clunker computer I have for now. I'll just have to miss out on the cool stuff...

JimG. · Jul 8, 2005

ctenidae said:
I want new skis...

just have to miss out on the cool stuff...

The skis are the cool stuff 8) .

ctenidae · Jul 8, 2005

:beer:

Stephen · Jul 8, 2005

bvibert said:
Cool, if you look at the ski areas in MA they still had some snow on the trails when the photos were taken! 8)

I meant to mention this is becuase the clearest sattelite photos are taken in the early or late winter, when there is the least amount of haze in the atmosphere.

-Stephen

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