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.
MY1960 ·
we have been using this for the last couple of days at work. How good is it!!!!
warb ·
yeah, its awesome, looked through Egypt, over to England, the us... realy interesting..
.... forst points to anyone who can see a vw on the street!.. :P
76camper ·
i can see one in my garage :-) Im a lucky man :-)
Menangler ·
I can see mine parked in my driveway, and 2 behind the shed.
KOM123 ·
Found it! 🙂nn[ Edited on 18-7-2005 by KOM123 ]
waltermitty ·
Mate you can waste days on Google maps , there are even user groups now swaping object sightings some interesting stuff there. I ffound the Pyramids that was amazing Paris is a must see, statue of liberty wow best site ever. Mitchell
warb ·
haha.. crazy
Purple Martin ·
yeah it rocks 😎
h ·
i tired but my old pc just not quite fast enough to do the start thing.. new one coming soon tho..
amazer ·
bummer i cant zoom close enough to see my house
aggri1 ·
amazer wrote:bummer i cant zoom close enough to see my house
Yeah the resolution varies in many locations. Anyone notice that the Fremantle naval base thing on that island whateveritscalled is higher res' than all the surroundings...? Hehe, who's spying hey? Melbourne's crap, and ... surprise ... cloudy.
Also, the ages of the shots vary a lot: the Bolte bridge in Melbourne is under construction I think, but NY hasn't got two big towers anymore.
Wicked program hey!
Ellabella ·
Haha thats cool, They dont have bundaberg 🙁
ohwell Ill try later
decked dubby ·
Damn, turns blury at my place....😬
vw54 ·
Can someone tell me how to save a pic.
I can see my place n right clik on the pic but it wont let me save it
Bizarre ·
control + print screen
\then paste in word
vw54 ·
bassa it takes the whole page not just the pic ???
Purple Martin ·
Canberra is very good definition, you can make out people!
Menangler ·
This is Carlsbad Raceway near San diego in the US, it has now been closed to make way for an industrial sight.
lowrider ·
I think there's a googlemoon too.
not supporting Mac at the moment tho' 😬
zac_smits ·
vw54 wrote:bassa it takes the whole page not just the pic ???
you can save pictures straight from the menu...file ---> save image 😀
or control - s if you prefer shortcuts!
zac
vw54 ·
you can save pictures straight from the menu...file ---> save image
or control - s if you prefer shortcuts!
NOPE it still dont work wont let me right click or save as
amazer ·
Geez dave, bloody computer illit... illit... person who doesnt know how to use them. Save the whole page with print scrn then open it in paintbrush, cut out the bit you want, past it into a new piantbrush window, save it then post here! Or just download screenhunter program, thats what I do. Just draw a little square around what ou want to save and hey presto its on your desktop.
If I found myself here i'd be stuffed, I can t even get through liverpool let alone off the harbour bridge let alone this place. click for link to map
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zac_smits ·
isn't that one near the pentagon amazer?
i seem to remember seeing it somewhere..
amazer ·
naah its in miami
Andy ·
How upto date is it??
My current fleet of type 3's are not in the back yard!!!
Hope there there when I get home :P
Well unless some one borrows them during the day!
amazer ·
have you seen the size of the pentagon? tis freakin huge pentagon link
something bothers me about the white house though... looks photshopped on. whitehouse link
buzzbug ·
That worries me that you can view that sort of stuff, eg: the pentagon/white house.
Can you see military establishments on it or have they got some kind of block on it?
Lee
Menangler ·
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!!.
Bizarre ·
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 😂
crewcabconnection ·
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 ]
buzzbug ·
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
crewcabconnection ·
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...
soft notch ·
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!!
frank2112 ·
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.
h ·
HOORAY i finally got it to work on this old dunger... happy now! 😀
vw54 ·
yippieeee finally got it to work bit of stuffing around to get the pic but heres my place
amazer ·
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?
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.😵😵😵
jenz58 ·
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
h ·
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.. 😵💫
vw54 ·
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
amazer ·
cant see a picture. email it to me.
72TWINCAB ·
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 ·
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.
that mostly sucks. you can zoom in a lot further on the pentagon though. No point looking at anything other than the US.
Purple Martin ·
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.
Purple Martin ·
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!
Purple Martin ·
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?
KOM123 ·
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!
pod ·
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
amazer ·
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.
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Purple Martin ·
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?
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?
Purple Martin ·
Got it now thanks. That's an amazing place!
amazeer ·
Google earth has just got better. I downloaded the beta version and its bloody awesome.
Wild1 ·
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.