[AT] Want to see all your ATIS friends' abodes from the sky--incolor!?

[Mike Sloane]

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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