MAPS.GOOGLE.com

[GL-P]

Anyone else get addicted yet? Give me some places to look at. (has to be popular enough to have good images)

 

[brianc]

Originally posted by GL-P
Anyone else get addicted yet? Give me some places to look at. (has to be popular enough to have good images)

DisneyWorld (Magic Kingdom)
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Lake...51,-81.581029&spn=0.004978,0.007671&t=k&hl=en

DisneyWorld (Race Track)
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Lake...89,-81.578561&spn=0.004978,0.007671&t=k&hl=en

DisneyWorld (EPCOT)
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Lake...69,-81.549497&spn=0.004978,0.007671&t=k&hl=en
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Lake...25,-81.549314&spn=0.004978,0.007671&t=k&hl=en


Kennedy Space Center
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Kennedy+Space+Center,FL&t=k&hl=en


My Place
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Lake...11,-81.494222&spn=0.004978,0.007671&t=k&hl=en
although the Property Appraiser's site has better resolution...
https://rocketryforum.com/attachment.php?s=&postid=180588

 

[sandman]

I tried to get Whitaker, NC flying field...but I forgot where it was...it was two years ago!

 

[sramberg]

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Elmo,MT&ll=47.817092,-114.337399&spn=0.007339,0.009602&t=k&hl=en

Love these maps. Check out this one, it appears that an airplane was flying by when the picture was taken (look close to the edge of the lake).

Steve

 

[Karl]

Yep, looks like a plane to me too. But It could be something like a pier that looks like a plane
Karl

 

[illini]

Wow! Never seen Google maps before. I found the house I grew up in!

 

[henry8minus1]

I am glad Google came out with this. Mapquest had aerial photos a while back, and you can go to www.globeexplorer.com and zoom in further, but their watermarks are more annoying.

 

[rstaff3]

Originally posted by sramberg
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Elmo,MT&ll=47.817092,-114.337399&spn=0.007339,0.009602&t=k&hl=en

Love these maps. Check out this one, it appears that an airplane was flying by when the picture was taken (look close to the edge of the lake).

Steve

Pretty cool indeed

 

[brianc]

Originally posted by sramberg
...it appears that an airplane was flying by when the picture was taken (look close
to the edge of the lake).

If you zoom all the way in, you can see the image in the lake and a ghost image on shore.
It's almost as if a program attempted to remove the plane and shadow, but didn't do such
a great job...


sramberg-- How'd you happen to find that one?

 

[Rocketmaniac]

Originally posted by sandman
I tried to get Whitaker, NC flying field...but I forgot where it was...it was two years ago!

It's in an area that the resolution is not too good. You can't zoom in and see the actual flying field.


But has anyone checked out the launch pads at KSC!!!!!

 

[sramberg]

We have a place on this lake (Flathead Lake) just a ways down the shore. So I just happend to find it.

Steve

 

[rabidsheeep]

https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v64/sheeepy/house.jpg

home sweet home.

 

[GL-P]

My house is about 400ft into the low res "mush"

I've found a few neat things (i think I lost the pics):

-cessna out of Toronto Island Airport( SW )
-Learjet coming into an airport

Others have found SR-71s, U2s, Concordes and old aircraft scrap yards. What's even cooler is the nuclear test sites and such

I hope to find:

-the actual launch tower for the shuttle (just need to look around) (which direction is the pad from the runway??? I might've found it)

-Lake Louise :crystal clear lake in the Rockies

-a crop circle

-Mt. Rushmore

-Parliament Buildings

Where is the launch platform???

 

[BobH48]

Here's my house. Directly in the center of the picture.


https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=42.096745,-71.792725&spn=0.003401,0.005150&t=k&hl=en

 

[shinbone]

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=New+York,NY&ll=40.689873,-74.045180&spn=0.004442,0.006019&t=k&hl=en

 

[brianc]

Originally posted by GL-P
-the actual launch tower for the shuttle (just need to look around) (which direction is the pad from the runway??? I might've found it)

Here's an annotated shot from the KSC website that should help...

https://kennedyspacecenter.com/images/capeCanaveral2.jpg

Here's another from the Canaveral Air Station virtual tour site that maps out
the other pad locations-
https://www.robsv.com/cape/map.html


And spaceflightnow has a shot from ISS of the Discovery rollout-
https://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts114/050406rolloutiss/

 

[rkt2k1]

Very cool!

Check out Area 51 (Groom Lake, NV)

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=%22groom+lake%22&ll=37.253952,-115.807056&sll=36.175000,-115.136389&spn=0.086002,0.126686&sspn=0.688019,1.013489&t=k&hl=en

 

[cmmeyers]

Yes, maps.google.com is a very cool site that I've been using for awhile.

I also like the way it integrates yellow pages into it's search feature. You can do detailed or broad searches.

 

[brianc]

LOL!

Check out today's FoxTrot strip- https://www.ucomics.com/foxtrot/2005/04/18/

Is Bill Amend hanging out on TRF like Scott Adams lurks at my office?