Re: Google Earth
Michael Cash wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:46:37 +0900, B Robson <luvrethecat@hinet.com>
> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
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>>Curt Fischer wrote:
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>>>Michael Cash wrote:
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>>>>On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 06:26:25 +0900, Michael Cash
>>>><mikecash@buggerallspammers.com> brought down from the Mount tablets
>>>>inscribed:
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>>>>>On 6 Jul 2005 03:06:48 -0700, declan_murphy@hotmail.com brought down
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>>>>>from the Mount tablets inscribed:
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>>>>>>Bloody amazing stuff.
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>>>>>>http://earth.google.com
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>>>>>>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".
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>>>>>I see very clearly a park in Aomi Futo that was turned into a parking
>>>>>lot two or three years ago.
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>>>>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?
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>>>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.
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>>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.
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> The weirdest thing was that the entire state of Massachusetts was a
> different color.
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Blue?
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