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• Sep 14, 2006

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BeanoNYC said:

Greg is there an easy way to integrate Bviberts and your ski info page to G.E.?

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Have you seen the Ski Area Locator Map? I know it's not quite a fun as Google Earth, but some of the info there came from my .kmz file linked to earlier in this thread. All the data had to be converted from the .kmz format to a format that was easier to read with the mapper code though, so I don't think there's an easy way to bring that complete set of data back into Google Earth...

 

• Sep 14, 2006

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bvibert said:

Have you seen the Ski Area Locator Map?

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Of course.....that's what I meant! If you loved us, you would get to work on it ASAP.

 

• Sep 19, 2006

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Some areas in CT have been updated as well. Ski areas like the mighty Ski Sundown are visible in slighty higher resolution:

Based on the status of my development, I would date the imagery as sometime last summer.

 

• Sep 19, 2006

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I really wish they would develop that steeper side to the right of gunbarrel.

 

• Sep 26, 2006

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Maine imagery is much improved as well:

Saddleback:

Sunday River:

Sugarloaf/USA:

 

• May 18, 2008

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They updated pics of my area.....Not sure of others but the res looks alot better.

 

• May 19, 2008

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Google earth is a good way to kill a couple hours..

 

• May 19, 2008

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If you save an image you can then use the sharpening tool in whatever image software is on your puter to improve it. I suppose it does depend on the quality of the software. It doesn't helpl low res images like Sundown but ones like Saddleback can be improved. I use the cropping tool alot as well.

Here are two improved version with very easy tweaking. Compare these with Greg's "naked image uploads" in his post and I hope they look improved. Very easy to do.

 

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• May 19, 2008

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Don't know if this has been covered, but in the preferences for GE there's a setting that's how much of what you're viewing is in sharp, high-quality. Normally it's just an area in the middle of the screen and the edges of the image drop into lower-res.