Google Earth Findings

**skwerlfish** · 07-18-2005 03:50 AM

What cool locations have you found in Google Earth? I haven't found any good one's yet, because I just discovered the program. If you find anything good, post the coordinates or give a link to the .kmz file.

**MSG** · 07-18-2005 04:00 AM

yeah i remember that

i tried to find area 51 but it was blocked off... go figure..

wait i think it was maps.google.com with sattelite... i dunno this looks more advanced

**Vampyre** · 07-18-2005 12:20 PM

I found the exact spot wher eI live!!

It's at 48, 36' 42.27 N 93, 23' 20.90 W

Crazy, because if there were pictures of the buildings, I'd be able to see my house.

I also discovered that if you look at the most northern point, it's not far from Greenland. But I could swear that there's Canada, Greenland, and another continent there, covered in snow/ice. I dunno, could just be Greenland.

**Roller** · 07-18-2005 02:20 PM

Ohh I've been wanting this but you need broadband right? If i could gett it it would be awesome to map out our farm... oh and the nearest town to us is a pub and a store, I don't kno whether it wou show up though...

So what's the program like people? Can u guys give a bit of an outline about it?

**Jammy** · 07-18-2005 03:48 PM

Holy moly!

What a great program! I can see my house from here!

Anyone know if pictures are updated in this program... or could the picture i see of my place be maybe 3 years old?

**Kaniaz** · 07-18-2005 04:09 PM

yeah they're updated but obviously

A) more in american areas
B) very slowly all around - i mean that's alot of world you're photographing there

**Mystical_Journey** · 07-18-2005 05:52 PM

Managed to find me house

This is cool but also very strange that you can do stuff like this for comerical use, wonder how advanced it could be

**MSG** · 07-19-2005 07:13 AM

Originally posted by Roller
program like people

its an interactive program that combines the powerful asian google search tool with imagery from the google maps service, and 3-d topography to make it all 3d... press down your middle button or scroll wheel and move the moust and it gets all 3d... they should use this on news stations that would be so awesome.

i used it at my aunts house.. she has like the fastest internet in california so I got near-real-time interaction. Crap thing is im back home now with 56k

**OpheliaBlue** · 07-19-2005 04:41 PM

my house wheeee

**Alex D** · 07-19-2005 05:10 PM

Yay I live in the middle of nowhere.

**Sir Calvert** · 07-19-2005 05:28 PM

Yea this is pretty interesting, soon we all have the our coordinates in our profiles

I read that the pictures can be up to 3 years old but i'm sure that will change soon.
NASA also has a similar program that i heard should be better, it's called World Wind.

**MSG** · 07-19-2005 06:18 PM

and so i managed to load it up on a dialup connection.. took a long time, but heres teh result:

my humble yet SAFE town (gardens of the world in the center, finished years ago, still in construction in the picture)

zoom out

zoom out some more

a little bit more

a wee bit more im not irish

and it is now possible to trace pOOp's location. bleh

**OpheliaBlue** · 07-19-2005 06:25 PM

cool, you can even see pOOp from space

**Colour_My_World** · 08-15-2005 06:45 PM

I searched for my house but couldn't find it

Found the St. Louis arch though!

**Clairity** · 08-15-2005 09:04 PM

I found my house! :bravo:

This is TOO cool.. but a little scary to think that anyone who has your address and internet access can just zoom in on your neighborhood
and then your house.

Still I can't wait to show my husband!

**Seeker** · 08-16-2005 04:50 PM

It was too low res to see my current house, However, I did find where I used to live. Seems the new owners cut down a lot of the trees

**Gargen** · 08-17-2005 06:17 PM

Originally posted by pOOp
yeah i remember that

i tried to find area 51 but it was blocked off... go figure.. *

wait i think it was maps.google.com with sattelite... i dunno this looks more advanced

wow really i have some satalite photos taken about a year ago that show the entire thing incuding the longest run way in the world

**Haz** · 08-17-2005 06:20 PM

I can't see my house because no-one LIKES the UK :'(

**MSG** · 08-20-2005 01:46 AM

in the search thing

type in

39.145328,-121.431617

or just copy paste... its pretty awesome. a SR-71 Blackbird (in flight?) with a buddyplane drone thing

hard to guess altitude since the other slightly-airborne aircraft just south of it taking off has a shadow like really far away, and its not one big picture its a bunch of them

im just wondering what that glowing shield thing is

more info http://googleglobetrotting.com/info.php/mid/100

**Ynot** · 02-13-2006 02:39 PM

sorry to necro-post,
but I just got sent this

Apparently showing a flying car in Perth, Australia

**CryoDragoon** · 02-13-2006 04:23 PM

Originally posted by OpheliaBlue
my house wheeee

yay! now i can try out my new nuclear bomb

but anyways: i have found HELL

looks like a a parking lot

its kind of... small...

**dudesuperior** · 02-13-2006 05:03 PM

Area 51 is around 37.25,-115.8

**OpheliaBlue** · 02-13-2006 05:14 PM

Originally posted by CryoDragoon

yay! now i can try out my new nuclear bomb

I don't live there anymore

so you'd be bombing my son's grandmother

**Krrish** · 02-13-2006 05:31 PM

And one day in near future, I will be combing my hair or shaving by looking at my image in google earth. (If I lose my mirror)

**CryoDragoon** · 02-13-2006 05:36 PM

Originally posted by OpheliaBlue

I don't live there anymore

so you'd be bombing my son's grandmother

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