Have you tried Google Earth? It’s very cool!
You can type in any location in the world and it will show you satellite images of that place. But it looks like it’s flying you there, zooooooooooooooommmm. LOL, no I’m not on anything, promise.
Click here to see an image of my workplace from above (I’ve drawn a big red arrow pointing to it.)
and Click here to see what it looks like if you request driving directions from one place to another.
I thought that was pretty cool.
I like this one better. And here’s my workplace. Can you send a nuke there at around 9am AST Friday Morning please?
Well, I would show you both my workplace, but then I would have to kill ya.
I surf Google Earth every now and then. Resolution is not so good in the area I live so I can’t see my house. But my parents’ house shows up real well.
Oh, and Mel! What is up with you stealing my Moron crown?!
I just tried that one mac, and I don’t like it. I zoomed in a bit on my house and suddenly I had big crossed out circles all over the place, lol
DL!!! LOL!!! I was just KIDDING about clinton! No way dude!
LMAO! That’s how I won the Jimmy Carter one!
Stick A Fork In Me…
I’m pretty much finished changing over except for placing the rest of my blogroll sites in their different categories and a few odds and ends here and there. So far I’m happy with the way everything’s fell into place. It……
[…] Of course I also saw this as another opportunity to link-whore. Mel did a post about Google Earth with a couple of images to demonstrate it. So, I took a little trip “home” via Google Earth. I drew the rectangle around the 40 acres, best as I could after realizing that the north I pointed at growing up wasn’t exactly true north, or rather the road didn’t aim straight north-south and straight east-west. I drew an H where the house was and a B where the barn was. I have estimated for years the distance from our house to the old Springfield Titan II missle base to be about 3 miles, as the crow flies. Good thing I knew exactly where the silo was because otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to find it. Vegetation is covering the site pretty well now. (The site was shut down years ago, silo filled back in, and all buildings and such removed.) Anyway, the 3 mile estimation was pretty damn close. According to Google Earth, 2.83 miles from point to point. Close enough to consider it ground zero. Duck and cover wasn’t going to do shit. Granted, there were several hills between us and the base, but still, Mom always told me the warhead would detonate several feet above ground in order to inflict maximum damage. Now I have never tried to verify that, but I have no reason to doubt her. One final note, the road that loops around the 3 sides of my parents’ 40 acres was and still is a dirt road. So that line “If directions to your house include ‘Turn off the paved road’” hit very close to home. Not that I consider myself a redneck. I was country, and you could even have called me a hillbilly, but I was no redneck even though I have been “too drunk to fish.” […]
Well, shit, I didn’t realize it would send the whole damn block of text with the tb. LMAO! I need to fix that.
So, what hours do you work? Now that you’ve given us directions, maybe we’ll come for a visit
I’ve tried Google earth in the past. In fact, my ex and I got into a debating match about whether there was a street next to my house or not. I kept arguing that I knew it wasn’t there, because I drive by it everyday. He argued that it showed up on Google earth. Damn, I had to admit that he was right, when I took a drive the next day and noticed this really small lane without a street sign on it that had to be what was on the map.
my hours vary, skye! I start at anytime between 8pm and 11pm, and finish at anytime between 3am and 6am…. come on down, you can help me! hehe
Skye, you still have the directions to my Home, so why don’t you visit?
I frequently consult the standalone Googleearth app before making first time calls on clients out in the deep piney woods. Having a pic of their house–even from the air–can be a big help when there are no road signs for miles around.
One thing I’ve liked about the standalone app–don’t know if Google’s gotten around to adding it to the web version–is the “tilt” function that allows me to sortta see how things look from the ground. I can orient things so I can sorta preview the entire route from known roads through deepwoods backroads to a new location. Helpful.
Of course, the images are all of slightly different vintages, although they try to keep things as current as possible. I can recall “shooting” a view of my sister’s place and catching a shot of the car she’d gotten rid of about six months before. All my sibs’ homes show up on Google earth except for my brothers–and he lives just outside a major metro area. weird lil hole for about a mile around his place. I tell him it’s cos he’s gotten so massive he’s warping the space-time continuum.
*heh*
me wonders why mac has directions to skyes house, hehe.
David! You reminded me of looking up my old address, the house that burned down, and seeing that huge foundation still standing there. What I saw in addition to that was the roof of my neighbors house, HOUSE, what used to be a small trailer, was now a house three times bigger than mine that burned down. I found it funny that I learned what was new with my old neighbors through google earth, lol. And I know it’s his and he didn’t sell the land, because he always said he was going to build a huge house there.
Here it is, where I live
… are you an angel? Check Rachael’s or mine page, she is I’m not.
oops location link does not work.. I’ll try once more
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Up Around The Bend…
I see the light! There are a lot more things I want to do to this but for the time being I have all the basic elements that I need. David of "third world county" and Corey of Another Opinion……
Boris, it looks pretty but I would be so lost there! I zoomed out and Why is it all zig-zaggy? lol
and uhhh the other way around, about comment number 13, skye and mac, lol
LOL i was wondering how comes it all so strait by you, naah I’m sure you would love to wonder trough streets of Utrecht
oiiiiiiiii boris doesnt say im annn angel you tart
lol
Hi All Experts,
Does anyone use google earth images as ground image planes for use in aerial scenes. I know how to stitch them together but are there any tools or tricks to make sure that the images are at the same height, angle and such to make sure they stitch well. I know in the pro version you can get bigger images but im not going to pay for the pro version when i could stitch multiple images together…
Hmmm, I don’t know about using google earth images for things, but do you have either paint shop pro or adobe acrobat?
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