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Come see Paul's home :) From space :D

#1 Paal_101

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Posted 13 April 2005 - 05:52 PM

Yep, here is a satellite image showing my home:

http://www.wildfireg...llite_image.JPG

If you are wondering we live on 160 acres of land, roughly 1/2 mile by 1/2 mile. I got this by using www.maps.google.com Unfortunately at the moment it is only North America, but I've found my dad's workplace (with his vehicle parked in a corner

) and my grandma's house in Florida. Its a lot of fun

EDIT: I just realized the caption says "That's out house"

This is a typo, it should be "our" obviously

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#2 Mythos_Ruler

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Posted 13 April 2005 - 06:05 PM

I have also seen a satellite photo of my house, but using a different map service. It was soon after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, so I looked at Ground Zero as well and the images were up-to-date and even showed the devestation from space.

PS: There are convicts living across the street from you?

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#3 Argalius

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Posted 13 April 2005 - 06:13 PM

Nice resolution...

#4 Ykkrosh

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Posted 13 April 2005 - 06:21 PM

World Wind has satellite imagery with 15m/pixel precision over the whole world, and several higher-resolution sets inside America. And it shows mountains very nicely

. (Unfortunately it's not particularly low-bandwidth - 170MB for the initial installation, and a lot more when you start looking around the world...)

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#5 goldenratiophi

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Posted 13 April 2005 - 07:27 PM

This Google Maps Satelite thing is pretty neat. I can see my house!

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#6 Uppy

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Posted 13 April 2005 - 07:33 PM

I like your "out house"

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#7 Dnas

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Posted 13 April 2005 - 08:35 PM

They don't have very detailed pics of my house

@Ykkrosh: The World Wind stuff looks really cool... I'm going to have to download it some time...

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#8 Red_08

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Posted 13 April 2005 - 09:33 PM

Here's major detail pic of my house before they put a roof on the porch (see the wooden boards sticking out?) and it got painted.

(Ok the link isn't working correctly and google can't find my house so I'll just uploaded it to fileshack here: http://img96.echo.cx...arhouse4lq.jpg)

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Posted 13 April 2005 - 09:36 PM

I've been loving Google Maps as well

Great resolution over larger cities.

You have a private airstrip, Paul? (!)

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#10 Red_08

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Posted 13 April 2005 - 09:57 PM

I highly recomend Globe Xplorer. That's what I got my pic from. (http://imageatlas.gl...42&zoom_level=1)

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#11 Ykkrosh

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Posted 13 April 2005 - 10:12 PM

Aha, finally found it: Paul's home on World Wind, with real 3D valley shapes (and some minor vertical exaggeration

). Also mine - I think it's one of the pixels in the village near the centre of the picture...

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#12 King Tutankhamun

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Posted 13 April 2005 - 11:10 PM

I had a demo of Keyhole a while ago and it coud show the chimney in the back of my house.

And of course the pool and cars can be seen as well. I tried it through google, and it looks fine for mine but not at all as detailed as the one through keyhole was. Google has a neat idea here.

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#13 EKen132

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Posted 14 April 2005 - 02:35 AM

Now if this wasn't the biggest coincedence ever. I was just going to post a topic about maps.google.com yesterday.

So far, I've seen my house, a marina that I used to sail out of on Lake Michigan, MIT, the Virgin Islands, where my family sailed this summer, Chicago, and my school.

My cross country team is going to use the satellite images to put maps of our courses on our website.

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#14 Paal_101

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Posted 14 April 2005 - 05:14 PM

LOL I knew those captions would get me in trouble

Its actually Gonvicks, the ranchers across the road from us. And yes it is pretty nasty resolution

Man I need World Wind

Prob is its only dial-up

Thanks for the pic Phillip!

@ Nate - Yep, my dad is a pilot and rebuilt a Stinson 108-2 Voyager about 3 years ago. Actually the very reason we bought this land was so he'd have a place to fly it off of.

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Posted 14 April 2005 - 11:35 PM

Paal_101, on Apr 14 2005, 12:14 PM, said:

Its actually Gonvicks, the ranchers across the road from us. And yes it is pretty nasty resolution

Huh? *is confused*

Paal_101, on Apr 14 2005, 12:14 PM, said:

@ Nate - Yep, my dad is a pilot and rebuilt a Stinson 108-2 Voyager about 3 years ago. Actually the very reason we bought this land was so he'd have a place to fly it off of.

Awesome

If I ever get a pilot's license and a plane, I'll have to pay you a visit!

#16 Centurion_13

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Posted 15 April 2005 - 11:10 AM

@ykrosh, if you live in the US, you can switch it to the usgs satalite and get detailed enought to get individual houses, cars (even people although they are just blotches). its almost 1m per pixel quality.

I managed to find Mythos_rulers house. and he showed me around his town.

@if you see me on msn Ill see if we can get a better picture of your place.. that goes for anyone in the US.

as for me, I live here:
here (perpindicular)
here(angled)
here(labeled)
Ill get a clearer labeled up one soon but for now the higher red label is my home and the lower red label is my school.

And this is where Ill be moving:
here(perpindicular)
here(angled)

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#17 Lorian

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Posted 15 April 2005 - 04:23 PM

I'm downloading WorldWind right now, I will show you guys my house if it works

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Posted 15 April 2005 - 05:06 PM

Lorian, on Apr 15 2005, 11:23 AM, said:

I'm downloading WorldWind right now, I will show you guys my house if it works

Me too - downloading via the NASA BitTorrent tracker

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Posted 15 April 2005 - 05:16 PM

Me too, maybe I am downloading from you and vice versa

#20 Centurion_13

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Posted 15 April 2005 - 05:24 PM

Lorian I doubt you will be able to see the individual houses in the UK. only possible in the US.

but you could show us the area.

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