Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!nntp.gol.com!203.216.70.8.MISMATCH!not-for-mail From: B Robson Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Google Earth Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 10:26:54 +0900 Organization: FusionGOL - Global Online Japan Lines: 62 Message-ID: References: <1120644408.343734.91720@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <3j3222Fnto5eU1@individual.net> <5j3qc1pcf05nt2i3ha1orp9j0r0ad0vni6@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 203-216-000-091.engineering.gol.ad.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nnrp.gol.com 1120785911 30544 203.216.0.91 (8 Jul 2005 01:25:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@gol.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 01:25:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050331) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <5j3qc1pcf05nt2i3ha1orp9j0r0ad0vni6@4ax.com> Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:28335 Michael Cash wrote: > On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:46:37 +0900, B Robson > brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed: > > >> >>Curt Fischer wrote: >> >>>Michael Cash wrote: >>> >>> >>>>On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 06:26:25 +0900, Michael Cash >>>> brought down from the Mount tablets >>>>inscribed: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>On 6 Jul 2005 03:06:48 -0700, declan_murphy@hotmail.com brought down >>>> >>>> >>>>>from the Mount tablets inscribed: >>>> >>>> >>>>>>Bloody amazing stuff. >>>>>> >>>>>>http://earth.google.com >>>>>> >>>>>>Was just looking at my house in Sydney, right down to the last tree I >>>>>>planted. Wish the resolution was as good for the areas of Japan I >>>>>>"visited". >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>I see very clearly a park in Aomi Futo that was turned into a parking >>>>>lot two or three years ago. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>In fact, I see things around the container yard areas that were not >>>>there the first time I went down there, around 6 years ago. And the >>>>current features looked somewhat weatherworn even then. >>>> >>>>Just how old is this data anyway? >>> >>> >>>The data for the US is newer. A building at my college campus that was >>>completed just about 18 months ago was either complete or very nearly so >>>in the photo. Japan, I don't know. >>> >> >>It's a patchwork. If you look at South Australia it's obvious that some >>shots were done during a wet winter and others during summer. There is >>even water in some of the salt lakes. In Tokyo some shots are at oblique >>angles and others more acute, some buildings seem to be falling over. > > > The weirdest thing was that the entire state of Massachusetts was a > different color. > > Blue?