[AT] OT- Real nice program

[charlie hill]

I don't think it is your video settings.  If you look in the menu there are 
some high resolution areas shown.  If you click up one of those sites you 
can see good detail of houses.  However, I haven't been able to tell an 
Allis Chalmers from a Farmall, etc.

One thing I can tell is that they are getting their addresses and street 
overlays from local government GIS data.  The reason I know this is because 
our county has my mom's house located wrong in their system.   If you seach 
the couties map server for her place you come up about 3 miles down the road 
from the house.  This system takes you to exactly the same place so it is 
obvious where they are getting their data.

I don't see how you could use this thing at all on dial up.  It eats a lot 
of resouces on a fast cable modem.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Auten" <pga2 at hot1.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 8:54 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT- Real nice program


>I know it isn't live, cause I checked my coordinates last night and I could 
>see things. :o)
> I have the same problem as Charlie, poor resolution (downright fuzzy if I 
> go below about 10,000 feet).
> I did check out the neighborhood I used to live in and I could see 
> individual houses and
> identify my former home. Out here in the styx I just get a fuzzy green 
> image. I suppose
> it could be my video settings, I'm at 1024X768 and True Color. My video 
> card has 128Mb
> of RAM, so it should be able to give great resolution. I just wasn't 
> getting it.
> How 'bout it Warren, what are your video settings?
>
> Phil
>
> At 07:01 PM 11/20/04, you wrote:
>>That is a great site.  Unfortunately the resolution is poor in the areas 
>>I'm most interested in.  Does anyone know if the images are a one time 
>>shot or if they are live or periodically updated images?
>>
>>Charlie
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "David Myers" 
>><walking_tractor at yahoo.com>
>>To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
>><at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>>Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 6:05 PM
>>Subject: Re: [AT] OT- Real nice program
>>
>>
>>>
>>>--- "Warren F. Smith"
>>><WarrenSmith at palmettobuilders.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Google just bought this company (Keyhole), and are
>>>>promoting a 7 day free
>>>>trial of this program. In the areas covered, the
>>>>resolution is incredible-
>>>>you can actually see individual automobiles. It puts
>>>>terraserver to shame.
>
>
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