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Post by Spooky on Jul 19, 2005 14:47:40 GMT
earth.google.comHow cool is that! I can see my house and the whole wide world!!!!
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Post by Sting on Jul 24, 2005 15:16:18 GMT
Note that earth.google.com is an on-line tool. Other items on this similar theme are ... maps.google.comalso an on-line tool However worldwind.arc.nasa.govis an on-line and off-line tool ... but NasaWorldwind approx 30-18Mb can download 4Gb extra files for offline use. |
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Post by verydisconoir on Jul 26, 2005 22:34:29 GMT
Very cool. I would have posted the link myself, but I'm usually the last to know about these things! Farnham looks great if you tilt and spin so that you’re looking from the castle to the town - the shadows make it look 3D. As the news has been a bit, err, bleak lately to say the least, nice to find something light and paranormal on BBC - news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/4717719.stm- and I somehow found myself reading a copy of The Sun earlier today, not only that, but there was something interesting inside. I found a related link - www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,5-2005340233,00.html I would usually assume that I was the last to know, but hey, maybe I'm first :-) |
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Post by verydisconoir on Jul 26, 2005 23:11:16 GMT
Just to add to that – not only are many parts of the world unavailable, but apparently depending on your download, not everyone gets ‘tilt’ – maybe user error, I don’t know, but what I was talking about should look like this: ![]() [/img] That doesn't work then. I hate technology. I'll print a book instead :-) |
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Post by Spooky on Jul 27, 2005 8:45:34 GMT
I noticed as well there are a couple of places that are conveniently air brushed into woodlands or park areas.
Look for the US Air force bases in the UK for example.
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Post by verydisconoir on Jul 31, 2005 23:35:47 GMT
Can you give an example? I'd love to find one!
I'm not trying to prove you wrong or anything, but I can see all the airbases I can think of. Even Greenham Common is still there - but not in reality (old sat image). The only 'bases that look airbrushed in the detailed sections of the UK (recent sat images), are those that have been closed and turfed over - unless they haven’t really been closed - ooh!
Make mine a Pint of Stealth :-)
D*mn, that's my eighth post (I said humans only do 7). Rose, get yer knickers on, we're off...
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Post by Spooky on Aug 1, 2005 7:26:51 GMT
Oh dear you have become part of the wall paper  The base I am reliably told is in High Wycombe? A colleague at work knows it well but on the map is what looks like a super large cricket pitch with trees either side. Maybe it is |
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Post by verydisconoir on Aug 4, 2005 1:44:33 GMT
Okay, I can’t see RAF Strike Command!
I wonder what they’d do to Portsmouth if it had a high-res Sat image on Google Earth. Turn the sea into land?
From the M27/A27 near Portsmouth, you can see the upper part of a next generation Navy Ship on the top of Portsdown Hill (a Marconi radar testing thing). It’s a ship on top of a big cliff – not the sort of thing you see everyday, so one tends to remember seeing such things. Apparently it’s very secret, and half a million people a day can’t see it.
Which makes me wonder – it’s so obvious, do most people ignore it?? Someone else’s prob?
Has anyone else seen a ship on top of a cliff near Portsmouth?
If I opened a big sweet factory in Farnham, and flew a 5 mile wide boiled sweet over the town, would people ignore it? Would they think, “Oh, it’s just him and his big sweets” and carry on with their lives?
Makes one wonder – but then it is a million o’clock a.m.
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Post by Hartswood on Aug 4, 2005 6:56:46 GMT
Well I admit I've driven past there hundreds of times...but have never noticed it!  |
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Post by Spooky on Aug 4, 2005 7:53:52 GMT
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