Google maps goes satellite!!!!!!!!!

[young nut]

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look at the SR-71s

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Is that Beale Air force base?

[mmbt0ne]

All of the green/black circles bother me more than the zoom restrictions over certain places. Google Maps is pointless if I can't use it spy on my own government.

[Rhone]

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Google maps now has satellite imagery.

Woot!!!

Messed up, I guess they bought a company called Keyhole that used to require you to pay $30. No more!! How does google do it???



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there are a couple of interesting things about this service.

First, check out the White House (1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC). The roof has obviously been doctored. Remember mapquest used to have satellite imagery, too, just like this, and I remember seeing full details of the White House roof just before 9/11, and that it became blanked out the way it is now on keyhole shortly thereafter.

Pan over to Capitol Hill. Notice the decrease in resolution as you near the Capitol.

Also interesting, is how certain urban areas have much higher resolution than others. Compare Washington DC with Boston, for instance. You can easily make out individuals walking around Harvard Square, but it's not nearly so good in DC.

(All these comments refer to the software version of keyhole...I haven't tried the google one yet)

Rhone.

[Rhone]

I just checked this out on google, and they give you MUCH higher resolution on the downloaded version of Keyhole. (which, btw, has a free 7-day trial period...it's definitely worth playing around with...very cool).

[PokerNoob]

You can get 2 meter resolutions of pretty much anything. The Russians don't care. You're not going to see anything terribly interesting on the ramp or the radar test pylons though.

[ddollevoet]

Some of these images are old.

I sodded my backyard 4 years ago this spring, but the satelite picture still shows dirt in my backyard.

[pshreck]

who can guess what this is? took me a while to find it.

[Duke]

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who can guess what this is? took me a while to find it.

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Looks like a Zest riddle to me!

~D

[mmbt0ne]

Neverland?

[pshreck]

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Neverland?

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Right, but this was a test.

We now know you were molested by Michael Jackson.