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

[John Wilkens]

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
>>
>>                    In the wide-open spaces of NE Oregon
>>
>
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