google earth

[nietzschefan]

crop circles? post latitude and longitude please.

Ok, when I get home.

If you have the "i" landmarks active they are easy to find in southwest england, not quite as far as Cornwall and southeast of glouchester - i don't know what the area is called. I was actually looking for the "Camel" rivers and didn't find them.

It's no big deal really, they are probably maintained by the farmers, whether or not "someone" else made them.

 

[leopold]

what about stonehenge? isn't that in england too?

 

[nietzschefan]

LoL yeah, somewhere near the southwest coast, I think. I wanted to find that too, then I got distracted by the pollution I saw.

 

[vslayer]

i heard there were far more interesting stone circles in ireland.

 

[nietzschefan]

crop circles? post latitude and longitude please.

51deg 25min 09 sec N
1 deg 50min 14 sec w

there are about 4-5 shapes in the general area.

 

[one_raven]

All right.
I downloaded it.
Give me some good stuff to see.

 

[Nickelodeon]

http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=63331

 

[leopold]

All right.
I downloaded it.
Give me some good stuff to see.

check out your house, it's the first thing i did.

getting good stuff to see is what this thread is about.
if you come across anything press shift+print screen, open paint and on the edit menu click paste, click save as (filename).jpg, then host it. or you can write down the lat/ long (lower left corner) and post those.

 

[leopold]

stonehenge
51d, 10m, 43.97s north
1d, 49m, 35.10s west

there is other stuff in the vicinity.

 

[DNA100]

I am using it for nearly a year now.And I have to say it's cool.

I wonder what is the future of this technology.

 

[S.A.M.]

I like to look at places I've been and look for familiar landmarks like the Mosque in Mecca, Manhattan, Miami beach, Madh Island, Bombay Pune roads, Goa, or even places I'd not been but would like to see, like the Wall of China or the Temple of the Mount in Israel. Its fun.

 

[redarmy11]

stonehenge
51d, 10m, 43.97s north
1d, 49m, 35.10s west

there is other stuff in the vicinity.

Does this 'other stuff' resemble a bunch of stoned hippies in any fashion?

 

[Nickelodeon]

Hey lay off the druids!

 

[redarmy11]

Yeah, that's what I keep tellin' em.

 

[leopold]

the strangest sights in google earth:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134186-page,1-c,mapping/article.html

 

[cosmictraveler]

i've installed google earth.
what kinds of cool stuff can i do with it?

i've already checked out my house.

Look for your brain, I know it's there somewhere!

 

[cosmictraveler]

I am using it for nearly a year now.And I have to say it's cool.

I wonder what is the future of this technology.

Think about what the capabilities are that the military have with it. They could watch you at your house and where you travel.

 

[dsdsds]

On google earth, pictures from my neighborhood are more than 3 years old. Is this typical?

 

[hypewaders]

Yes. My area is still shown with 4-year-old imagery. As I'm sure you have noticed, resolution varies considerably too.

The Google Earth Community board shares all sorts of interesting and categorized things to spy.

 

[Stryder]

Think about what the capabilities are that the military have with it. They could watch you at your house and where you travel.

Google earth isn't a live map, it's a composite of hundreds of thousands of images. Some satellite but the most are from aircraft. The images aren't necessarily recent either.

For instance my local area had some roads that were completed circa 1998, but it also contained views of a Helicopter firm that's no longer in the area and a long brown tract where a gas line was put that stretches for about 50 miles. (They put that in in 1992)

What would of been interesting is if Google Earth had somehow linked with Archive.org's wayback machine and started sculpturing the world as and when we saw it back in the day.