[AT] Satellite Images WAS Re: Re Driving to Unionville Missouri

[Larry Goss]

John, your second point is a problem with any of the record keeping systems we try to keep on-line.  When we (as a culture) did all these things by hand, agencies, clubs, and organizations started over from scratch every once in a while with a brand new document.  It was the nature of our techniques of legislation and publishing.  But nowadays starting from scratch is an extra step that is easily overlooked.  We much prefer to edit the old document, and save it with the same name when we're done.  The result is that we automatically annihilate the provenance of any record system or database that we work with.  We just don't keep the concepts of archiving in our heads in this digital age.

Larry

----- Original Message -----
From: "charlie hill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2012 12:09:28 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Satellite Images WAS Re: Re Driving to Unionville Missouri

John there are some commercial sites that government agencies and businesses 
use.  The only one that comes to mind is TerraServer.  I can't afford to use 
them so I don't know the quality of the images.



-----Original Message----- 
From: John Slavin
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 12:21 PM
To: AT at lists.antique-tractor.com
Subject: [AT] Satellite Images WAS Re: Re Driving to Unionville Missouri

I tried a case a few days ago (I'm an attorney by trade), and it became 
important to me to have some satellite images.  I was struck by several 
things:

1)  I didn't realize the difference between companies.  In this case, Bing's 
satellite image was much clearer than Google for the particular site I was 
concerned with.  I suspect they all use the same satellites, but I don't 
think they necessarily get the images at the same time.

2)  I never could figure out a way to get historical images online.  I 
actually wrote Google and the response I got was that when the images are 
updated, they no longer have access to the older images.  That would seem to 
me to be an easy way to monetize the images, if some company makes it easy, 
for fairly small fee, to get historical images.

3)  Wow have the images improved.  I found one site that had older images, 
but they are of much poorer quality.

John Slavin
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