Google earth.

Menangler · 2005-07-18T05:29:51+00:00

Has any one downloaded the Google Earth Program?. It is fantastic, It is a program that lets you look at the earth through satelite photos, some are so detailed you can see cars on the streets. I can see my house. It is best with Broard band as it uses a lot of those giggerwhatsits, but worth a look.

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12,787 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 21 Jul 2005, 9:12 pm

#388302

eeewwwww...... that water way near the Pentagon is weird!

Must be a dam or something...... just changes colour!

Hmmmm.... wonder what happens if we scan the Nevada desert for Area 49.75 or what ever it was 😂

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crewcabconnection Being Sid James

1,922 posts · joined Apr 2003 · 21 Jul 2005, 9:32 pm

#388316

For Sale - Helicopter Photographic Business .... hahahaha my wifes got a friend, whos husband is a) a moron and b) paid recently to have his house photo'd from the air.....hehehehehe....just sent him a better picture of his house! ... ah sweeet justice.....anyone found crop circles yet....?....or where the thieving git that stole my Commodore on the weekend has stashed it.....now off to NZ to look for Barndoors, googlestyle.....nn[ Edited on 21-7-2005 by crewcabconnection ]

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buzzbug Praise the lowered

1,992 posts · joined Mar 2003 · 21 Jul 2005, 9:38 pm

#388319

Dave Becker wrote:Lee,
I can see my car park at work, so there's no block on it, there is an airstrip in the US visable, you can see jets on the run way.

The photos from the south coast were taken over christmas '03, friends of ours were camping by the river, you can see their tents!!.

OK now that is just wrong in my honest opinion.
Hmmmmm lets see the set out of the major military bases in the world.............that looks like a good place for a bomb.:cry

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crewcabconnection Being Sid James

1,922 posts · joined Apr 2003 · 21 Jul 2005, 9:45 pm

#388329

ah bugger, Bush could have just done a Google search for 'weapons of mass distruction', save all the hassle....but don't search for 'french milirary victories' you get 404 page not found....off to Sunset and Vine, look for Julia Roberts...

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soft notch Officially Full-On Dubber

218 posts · joined Sep 2003 · 21 Jul 2005, 9:49 pm

#388333

We've just been banned at work from using google earth. Eats up so much bandwidth the IT section freaked!! But even they admit google earth is the ducks nuts!!

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frank2112 Officially Full-On Dubber

215 posts · joined Jan 2005 · 21 Jul 2005, 9:51 pm

#388334

I'm still trying to work out when the photos of Canberra were taken. There is a helicopter at my daughters school so it was summer last year.

I think they photoshopped the white house to hide the vulnerable parts of the roof. Normal paranoia.

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7,671 posts · joined Feb 2005 · 22 Jul 2005, 12:05 am

#388393

HOORAY i finally got it to work on this old dunger... happy now! 😀

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vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

16,723 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 22 Jul 2005, 11:03 am

#388483

yippieeee finally got it to work bit of stuffing around to get the pic but heres my place

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I read it on FACEBOOK so it must be true

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amazer kombi pilot

3,187 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 23 Jul 2005, 8:48 pm

#389072

I cant see your place dave.

I'm addicted to this site now. I managed to find the pyramids and the sphynx. I was looking in no mans land. Didnt know they were right near the city. what do you think all the little squares around it are? just buildings? archeology digs?

link to egypt

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1,340 posts · joined Aug 2004 · 23 Jul 2005, 9:06 pm

#389083

jeez pentagon,white house,pyramids,canberra dont yous have any imagination.
now hugh heffner is having a shindig tonight &
some fine talent in bikini's to be looked at.😵😵😵

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jenz58 Postal Menace

9,121 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 23 Jul 2005, 10:49 pm

#389129

Dave I'm as bad as YOU I can't get the map to save ...can't do anything...I also can't get real close into my place as they don't have an image for it but I've picked out where I live. It takes some tracing along roads out of the city to find

Have tried emailing the page..saving the page...can't do any of it ARGH!! 🤪

It is very cool though

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http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=22473
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=56558#pid535643

...so I don't loose the links to my rides again hehehe

h fractals - an ever changing lifestyle

7,671 posts · joined Feb 2005 · 23 Jul 2005, 10:52 pm

#389131

hey jenz, click file top l/h cnr then click save image just over half way down the scrolldown bar thingy.. it worked for me.. 😵‍💫

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vw54 Administrator Always Waiting 4 Friday

16,723 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 27 Jul 2005, 7:26 am

#390347

Jen

do a print screen and paste it into paint brush

then save as a jpg

open photoshop and crop to size

bit complicated but i got it to work...

can anyone see my vws in the backyard lol

I read it on FACEBOOK so it must be true

http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=91278&page=1#pid848630

http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=63561&page=1#pid624099

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amazer kombi pilot

3,187 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 27 Jul 2005, 9:15 am

#390379

cant see a picture. email it to me.

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72TWINCAB Fahrvergnugen

978 posts · joined Feb 2003 · 27 Jul 2005, 11:09 am

#390409

Google earth rocks. The picture of my house is at least 2 years old as I still have a mango tree in the backyard and the olympic size trampoline that i bought for my daughter 2 years ago is no where to be seen.

amazer kombi pilot

3,187 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 27 Jul 2005, 11:17 am

#390411

its a great time waster. Ive found the hollywood sign, golden gate bridge, pyramids, sphynx, eiffel tower, statue of liberty, uluru, kata djuta, whitehouse, pentagon, aussie parliament house, my house(kinda), a friends house in oklahoma, a the arc thing in paris.... thank kerist I have broadband now.

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HotRodMatt If it\'s old or rare - cut it!

3,616 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 27 Jul 2005, 11:50 am

#390428

virtualearth.msn.com

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amazer kombi pilot

3,187 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 27 Jul 2005, 1:19 pm

#390446

that mostly sucks. you can zoom in a lot further on the pentagon though. No point looking at anything other than the US.

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Purple Martin Fahrvergnugen

913 posts · joined Feb 2003 · 27 Jul 2005, 3:46 pm

#390490

amazer wrote:something bothers me about the white house though... looks photshopped on.

Yes, they've photoshopped out the roof to make it blank... hiding any arials, satellite dishes etc they might have there.

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Purple Martin Fahrvergnugen

913 posts · joined Feb 2003 · 27 Jul 2005, 3:52 pm

#390491

frank2112 wrote:I'm still trying to work out when the photos of Canberra were taken. There is a helicopter at my daughters school so it was summer last year.

Yes I thought it was roughly a year and a half ago. If you are familiar with any suburbs that were being built then you could look for which houses had been completed? It's definately after the fires, I can see one destroyed house in my street has been rebuilt in the Google Earth pics but the one next to it is shown as a bare block, they built that house only a couple of months after the first was finished but I can't remember exactly when that was!

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Purple Martin Fahrvergnugen

913 posts · joined Feb 2003 · 27 Jul 2005, 4:04 pm

#390494

Question for Canberra people:

Between the airport and Queanbeyan there is a large stand of trees that has been planted as a perfect cross shape. What is that for?

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KOM123 Smiling Assassin

1,164 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 27 Jul 2005, 9:49 pm

#390659

do a search on "Tucson", then do a further search on "Bone Yard", then go into satellite view and look at "D" the Prima Air Museum I think it's called. Zoom in and check out the areas to the north and north east and see how many abandoned planes there are at the graveyard!

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4,980 posts · joined Dec 2003 · 27 Jul 2005, 10:11 pm

#390674

Purple Martin wrote:Question for Canberra people:

Between the airport and Queanbeyan there is a large stand of trees that has been planted as a perfect cross shape. What is that for?

maybe its for the :alien :P

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amazer kombi pilot

3,187 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 28 Jul 2005, 12:34 am

#390732

KOM123 wrote:do a search on "Tucson", then do a further search on "Bone Yard", then go into satellite view and look at "D" the Prima Air Museum I think it's called. Zoom in and check out the areas to the north and north east and see how many abandoned planes there are at the graveyard!

holy bat poo batman. The money in scrap aluminium alone would be enough to buy half of australia. I bet the planes get nervous flying down onto that runway.

nn[ Edited on 28-7-2005 by amazer ]

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Purple Martin Fahrvergnugen

913 posts · joined Feb 2003 · 28 Jul 2005, 4:36 pm

#390953

KOM123 wrote:do a search on "Tucson", then do a further search on "Bone Yard", then go into satellite view and look at "D" the Prima Air Museum I think it's called. Zoom in and check out the areas to the north and north east and see how many abandoned planes there are at the graveyard!

I get no results when I search for Tuscan. Where abouts is it? Can you give us the Lat and Long numbers please?

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amazer kombi pilot

3,187 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 28 Jul 2005, 4:48 pm

#390958

try this
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=boneyard&ll=32.157158,-110.842438&sll=32.221667,-110.925833&spn=0.020882,0.034980&sspn=0.175721,0.294571&t=k&num=10&start=0&hl=en

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7,386 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 28 Jul 2005, 4:54 pm

#390961

Tucson, not Tuscan 🙂

Purple Martin wrote:
KOM123 wrote:do a search on "Tucson", then do a further search on "Bone Yard", then go into satellite view and look at "D" the Prima Air Museum I think it's called. Zoom in and check out the areas to the north and north east and see how many abandoned planes there are at the graveyard!
I get no results when I search for Tuscan. Where abouts is it? Can you give us the Lat and Long numbers please?

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Purple Martin Fahrvergnugen

913 posts · joined Feb 2003 · 29 Jul 2005, 9:59 am

#391248

Got it now thanks. That's an amazing place!

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amazeer Bishop of Volkswagenism

3,029 posts · joined Nov 2005 · 15 Jun 2006, 7:24 pm

#501065

Google earth has just got better. I downloaded the beta version and its bloody awesome.

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448 posts · joined Jun 2006 · 15 Jun 2006, 8:09 pm

#501088

KOM123 wrote:do a search on "Tucson", then do a further search on "Bone Yard", then go into satellite view and look at "D" the Prima Air Museum I think it's called. Zoom in and check out the areas to the north and north east and see how many abandoned planes there are at the graveyard!

That's the US Airforce 'graveyard', although it's not really a graveyard as such. When aircraft are too old or they don't need them anymore they're sent here and the engines are taken out and put into a warehouse and all fluids drained. Any holes/cracks etc are shrinkwrapped and the aircraft are parked in the desert.

The reason they do this is because is costs very little to keep them, and if they need to mobilise a lot of aircraft, they can have a motly fleet ready to fly in very little time.

When they found cracks in the wings of the Australian Airforce's F-111's, they bought new wings from the US. The wings were taken off the F-111's sitting here.

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