excellent program

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A little to do with flight. It's a damn dandy program. And it's free.
Download it and you'll see.
Hey, that rhymes.
;o)

http://earth.google.com

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Goran wrote:

> A little to do with flight. It's a damn dandy program. And it's free.
> Download it and you'll see.
> Hey, that rhymes.
> ;o)
>
> http://earth.google.com
>

I typed in my sisters address in West Virginia, clicked "Fly To" and it
did. What a trip.

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I took a few minutes and took some snaps of my house. It gets darn near,
I wonder what the secret satellite resolution can see.

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs37&d=05283&f=earth.jpg

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I found my house

that is so cool

"boB" <akita_77REMOVECAPS@yahoo.Xcom> wrote in message
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> Goran wrote:
>> A little to do with flight. It's a damn dandy program. And it's free.
>> Download it and you'll see.
>> Hey, that rhymes.
>> ;o)
>>
>> http://earth.google.com
>>
>
> Our house is shown and it was built in 2000. Our neighbors was built in
> 2002 and is there also. Our swimming pool was put in in 2003 and it isn't
> there. So the photos are a couple years old. But it's a trip to zoom in
> on my house.
>
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> boB,
> SAG 70
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> Central Texas - 5NM West of Gray Army Airfield (KGRK)

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I found my daughters house in Surfers Australia but my area in New Zealand
hasn't been covered and looks worse than a street directory

Butts

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>I took a few minutes and took some snaps of my house. It gets darn near, I
>wonder what the secret satellite resolution can see.
>
> http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs37&d=05283&f=earth.jpg
>
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>
> boB,
> SAG 70
>
> U.S. Army Aviation (retired)
> Central Texas - 5NM West of Gray Army Airfield (KGRK)

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Just zoomed into Washington DC and I think it's Captiol Hill or the White
house is blurred out with all surrounding buildings in focus. looks like
Bush doesnt want people spying on too much of Washington.





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> From what I was told, they are still trying to get the whole map of the
> world updated slowly. Some areas are accurate with actual satellite
> photos whereas country areas and small towns and cities are left out with
> just topographical info.
> Now all you need is a map of the stars homes with their addresses and find
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> I spent about 4 hours on this thing yesterday.
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>>I found my daughters house in Surfers Australia but my area in New Zealand
>>hasn't been covered and looks worse than a street directory
>>
>> Butts
>>
>> "boB" <akita_77REMOVECAPS@yahoo.Xcom> wrote in message
>> news:gX4Be.117643$j51.95477@tornado.texas.rr.com...
>>>I took a few minutes and took some snaps of my house. It gets darn near,
>>>I wonder what the secret satellite resolution can see.
>>>
>>> http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs37&d=05283&f=earth.jpg
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> boB,
>>> SAG 70
>>>
>>> U.S. Army Aviation (retired)
>>> Central Texas - 5NM West of Gray Army Airfield (KGRK)
>>
>>
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Goran <G-Man> wrote:

> A little to do with flight. It's a damn dandy program. And it's free.
> Download it and you'll see.
> Hey, that rhymes.

I had seen this mentioned in the aviation newsgroup but as of last week
Google had temporarily taken down the link, presumably due to the
overwhelming response to the program.

After seeing your post, I decided to take a break from work and d/l it.
Absolutely incredible. In a way, it seems to use a similar technology as
FS2004.

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Hi Goran,

And it can even be used to see where NSW is going to have a lot of grief
next year!! :-))))

http://xs37.xs.to/pics/05283/StateofOrigin.jpg

Being so close to the stadium, I'll be able to watch the game, grab a
few barbed wires on the way home, and be savouring the replay, before you've
even had time to get used to the shock of losing to us Queenslanders!!!

Regards,
John Ward
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>A little to do with flight. It's a damn dandy program. And it's free.
>Download it and you'll see.
> Hey, that rhymes.
> ;o)
>
> http://earth.google.com
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you know, I was waiting for you to make a post like that. Surprised me that
you took so long though.
)
I seem to recall you being this optimistic before your last, what shall we
call it, Slaughter. You know we're going to win again, John. It's the way
of the universe.





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"John ward" <johnrmward@opyusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> Hi Goran,
>
> And it can even be used to see where NSW is going to have a lot of
> grief next year!! :-))))
>
> http://xs37.xs.to/pics/05283/StateofOrigin.jpg
>
> Being so close to the stadium, I'll be able to watch the game, grab a
> few barbed wires on the way home, and be savouring the replay, before
> you've even had time to get used to the shock of losing to us
> Queenslanders!!!
>
> Regards,
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> "Goran" <G-Man> wrote in message news:42d495de$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
>>A little to do with flight. It's a damn dandy program. And it's free.
>>Download it and you'll see.
>> Hey, that rhymes.
>> ;o)
>>
>> http://earth.google.com
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356 days, and a few hours, to go!!

JW
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> you know, I was waiting for you to make a post like that. Surprised me
> that you took so long though.
> )
> I seem to recall you being this optimistic before your last, what shall we
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>> Hi Goran,
>>
>> And it can even be used to see where NSW is going to have a lot of
>> grief next year!! :-))))
>>
>> http://xs37.xs.to/pics/05283/StateofOrigin.jpg
>>
>> Being so close to the stadium, I'll be able to watch the game, grab a
>> few barbed wires on the way home, and be savouring the replay, before
>> you've even had time to get used to the shock of losing to us
>> Queenslanders!!!
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ward
>> "Goran" <G-Man> wrote in message news:42d495de$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
>>>A little to do with flight. It's a damn dandy program. And it's free.
>>>Download it and you'll see.
>>> Hey, that rhymes.
>>> ;o)
>>>
>>> http://earth.google.com
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Goran,
I agree, this is a terrific program. I have been using this program for
about 6-8 months (it used to be called Keyhole-before Google bought them).
Actually, its a really nice addition to any kind of flight sim that a person
has. I use it to fly cross country, or to check out approaches to airports.
It also helps me as a RL pilot, in that I can check out x-country routes,
terrain, and airport layouts while planning a flight. And besides, it is
just darn fun!
I also spend a lot of time just zooming over the Earth, looking at
things. I have visited Area 51, Edwards AirForce base, the "boneyard" at
Mothan-Davis AFB, Scaled Composites at Mojave airport, Mount Everest, Niagar
falls, etc, etc, etc. And of course I have to find the house of every person
that I know. It costs about $30 you subscribe for a year, but for me it is
worth it just for the entertainment factor. Take care....

Randy L.
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>A little to do with flight. It's a damn dandy program. And it's free.
>Download it and you'll see.
> Hey, that rhymes.
> ;o)
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> http://earth.google.com
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Hi CRaSH,

Wow - clear as a bell, very photo-realistic!

I guess that's the maximum zoom?

Regards,
John Ward
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> boB wrote:
>> I took a few minutes and took some snaps of my house. It gets darn
>> near, I wonder what the secret satellite resolution can see.
>>
>
> I tried Google, but TerraServer still rules for civilian up close &
> personal!
> http://photobucket.com/albums/v674 [...] interval=5
>
> Hit RESUME to start the slide show - or click on "back to photobucket
> album"
> to select the shots manually at FULL size (more better ....
>
> Google's probably covers more territory, haven't played with it world wide
> yet.....
>
> Cheers'n Beers.. [_])
> Don
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CRaSH <sorry@aint-here.spam.com> wrote:

> I tried Google, but TerraServer still rules for civilian up close &
> personal!

This definitely depends on the location into which one is zooming in Google
Earth.

GE does contain areas, such as that surrounding your house, that are low
resolution images but they also contain and are continually adding more
high resolution areas.

Here is a high resolution image of the company, taken out of GE, for which
I am currently consulting:

http://home.twcny.rr.com/thericcs1/images/NE.jpg

Additionally, at least with respect to the images surrounding the Northeast
US, Google Earth's images are only one to a few years old. Terraserver's
images are approximately ten to fifteen years old. This makes a
difference.

Another observation I had is that Google Earth purposely leaves many
"sensitive" areas as low resolution. For example, the airport in which I
fly out of IRL is also a US Air National Guard base that houses several
F-16s.

In GE, the area completely surrounding the airport is all high resolution,
but the airport itself is low resolution, which makes the image about as
useful as what you tried to zoom into over your house. Not all airports
are low resolution, though, only the ones that have a military presence.

Interestingly, GE went a step further with the US Capital. They completely
blocked it out with a mosaic of pixels. Also, the roofs of surrounding
buildings in the Washington area have all been colored in.

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CRaSH <sorry@aint-here.spam.com> wrote:

> Now that is impressive!! I'll have to play with GE somemore - I just tried
> locally first, then my old neighborhood in Kansas City (not far from int'l
> airport), and neither one was very good, although KC was a little better..

As you are zooming in but still out quite far, you can tell the high
resolution areas from the low by the colors. Grey/brown blocks are areas
of higher resolution and the most satisfying to zoom way in, whereas the
green/blue areas are the areas of lower resolution, which produces a
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This is a fascinating program, has anyone developed a way to merge it with
FS?
Denlow
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>> A little to do with flight. It's a damn dandy program. And it's free.
>> Download it and you'll see.
>> Hey, that rhymes.
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> Google had temporarily taken down the link, presumably due to the
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> Absolutely incredible. In a way, it seems to use a similar technology as
> FS2004.
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"David Wilson-Okamura"
> corrected him for ending a sentence with a preposition.)

A young Arkansas girl asked a saleslady at Neiman Marcus, "How long is that
on sale for?"

The Neiman Marcus saleslady replied, "Young lady, here at Neiman Marcus we
do not end our sentences with prepositions."

So the young Arkansas girl replied, "OK... how's this? How long is that on
sale for, Bitch."


Dallas

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Quite so! :-)

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"mike wheelock"
> Not free! I uninstalled the Keyhole demo program. When I downloaded and
> installed GoogleEarth it read the expired keyhole program and wanted me
> to send money to use plus. I might do that anyway.

Oh great! everybody else gets it for free but because we tried their demo
we still have to pay?

Dallas

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Dale E.:

> This is a fascinating program, has anyone developed a way to merge it with
> FS?

No "merge" but a "link" between Google Earth and Flight Simulator to
show (and automatically follow) aircraft's current postion and
surrounding AI traffic in Google Earth:

http://www.elbiah.de/flusi/MyFsGoo [...] eEarth.htm

-jh-

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CRaSH wrote:
> Goran wrote:
>
>>easy fix. just delete your registry entries of the program in
>>question. Crisis over.
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> I got a hunch the free part is going to last long enough to get everyone
> hooked, then..........
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So then we delete the registry files every 30 days or so

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"Goran"
> easy fix. just delete your registry entries of the program in question.
> Crisis over.

I'll try that, but I can't believe their programmers would make it so easy
to defeat the trial mode's security.

Dallas

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"mike wheelock"
> So I went back to the registry to start over. This time I saw a listing
> for Keyhole under Google. I reinstalled G E and same problem it
> detected an expired account.

Thanks for saving me the effort... Google obviously planted a well hidden
marker somewhere on the hard drive that we can't find. I guess we could
download some cracking tools to find it, but I don't have that much time in
my life. :-)

Or we could bug Google to upload a fix for the mistake. I wonder how they
intend to handle all those customers who purchased Keyhole... I guess
they'll prorate a refund? <G>

Dallas

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So I went back to the web site http://earth.google.com/index.html .
The program will run free minus the extras. By paying $20 a year you
get better graphics, GPS, and the ability to import spread sheets.

When trying to see my sons house, the address wouldn't work but it would
bring up the zip code. I tried the "fly too" put in SFO and it zoomed
into the airport. When I zoomed out a little I could see hotels around.

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Hi mike wheelock,

"....and the ability to import spread sheets...."

I hope Gregory noticed that part of your post! :-))

Regards,
John Ward

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> So I went back to the web site http://earth.google.com/index.html .
> The program will run free minus the extras. By paying $20 a year you get
> better graphics, GPS, and the ability to import spread sheets.
>
> When trying to see my sons house, the address wouldn't work but it would
> bring up the zip code. I tried the "fly too" put in SFO and it zoomed
> into the airport. When I zoomed out a little I could see hotels around.

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"Goran" <G-Man> wrote in message news:42d495de$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
>A little to do with flight. It's a damn dandy program. And it's free.
>Download it and you'll see.
> Hey, that rhymes.
> ;o)
>
> http://earth.google.com

For some cool things you can do with Google Earth, see
http://www.googleearthhacks.com.

Wayne