[AT] Want to see........Mike

[John Wilkens]

I think I could turn into a "computer couch 
potato" with this stuff if I'm not careful!     John



At 10:48 AM 11/11/2006, you wrote:
>You found it, John, but it is in northwestern 
>NJ, not NY. I am about 15 miles from the PA 
>border (the Delaware River). And that "road" is 
>really only a gravel lane, but it shows up black on the satellite image.
>
>Mike
>
>John Wilkens wrote:
>>Mike, I think I finally found it.....if you are 
>>in N. NY and your barn is at a corner of the 
>>road---with some cars and tractor? around it.
>>Neat!   John
>>
>>At 03:52 AM 11/09/2006, you wrote:
>>
>>>Be aware that the degree of detail on the 
>>>images varies, depending on the area. For 
>>>instance, when I look at my property in 
>>>northwestern NJ, I can identify the tractors 
>>>parked in front of the barn. But when I took a 
>>>look at Dick Fink's place in rural western PA, 
>>>the details were very vague. The same is true 
>>>in other parts of the world. I suspect the 
>>>management of the system spent more money 
>>>buying satellite images from more densely 
>>>populated regions of the world. Also realize 
>>>that the colors are not natural but are 
>>>adjusted from infra-red imagery in some 
>>>places. But it is still good fun. If you have 
>>>a broadband connection, you can actually fly 
>>>over like a helicopter or drive down roads, 
>>>but the buildings and hills are not quite realistic from that angle.
>>>
>>>If you run the program, you can go to: 40° 56' 
>>>30.88" N and 74° 50' 54.61" W and get down to 
>>>about 750' altitude before things get too 
>>>fuzzy. That is my barn and property back about two years ago in March.
>>>
>>>Mike
>>>
>>>John Wilkens wrote:
>>>
>>>>If you haven't seen this free world wide 
>>>>fantastic color aerial photo program take a 
>>>>look! 
>>>><http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html>http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>It's a Google program that gives you very 
>>>>>close up views of just about anywhere on 
>>>>>earth--and at different angles.  Hard to 
>>>>>believe the technology.  I guess some of the 
>>>>>older computers can't handle the program but 
>>>>>my old Pentium with XP does just fine.     John W
>
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