Google Satellite Maps
Google Satellite Maps, originally uploaded by plemeljr
Has anyone seen the new Google Maps? They now have satellite views in addition to maps, which now means that I don't have to use Terra Server if I want to casually see a satellite image.
Just riffing on Mathowie, it is pretty amazing to be able to link to satellite images of places where I have lived: Boston, San Francisco, Cincinnati, and Brooklyn. Cincinnati apparently hasn't been imaged yet, but they are 10 years behind anyway, so no one will notice.
And continuing the massive dork-out, here are some really cool images:
- Moab Desert, Utah
- The Pentagon (which is curiously not pixelated out)
- Fenway Park
- Airplanes on Boston's Logan Airport's runways
- A parade in San Francisco
- Disney World (look at the massive parking lots)
- entry to NORAD
- Black Rock, Utah - you can clearly see the Burning Man encampment
- Grand Canyon
- Cape Canaveral, FL
- Wright Patterson AFB
- Arlington National Cemetary
- Fermilab Colliders
- B-52's taxiing for take-off
- Aircraft Carriers
- Trinity, MN - First test of the Atomic bomb
- Giant Compass Rose @ Edwards AFB
- Hoover Dam
- Airplane Graveyard
- Air Force One's Hanger (At Andrews AFB)
- CIA Headquarters
What would be really amazing if some enterprising hacker combined Google's Satellite view with Amazon.com's Block View so that you can view both the block and the satellite without all of the extra crap that Amazon.com wraps their content with. I took five minutes and did a quick mock-up, showing what this Frankenstein would look like:
Google/Amazon.com Block View combination
Not the prettiest composition, but you get the idea. I actually wish Google would just do what Amazon.com did and buy some SUV's and shoot each block. That way Google can assemble a page which doesn't make your eyes bleed.
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m3x says:
i have that big aerial image of boston on my wall. that stuff came straight from the massa-two-shits GIS data. only mine is 300 dpi and 30x40. oh, and no google ghosting.
Posted by: m3x at April 5, 2005 7:20 PM #
plemeljr says:
You ask for that same information about NYC, and you get a little visit from the FBI (or some other acronym). The NY State GIS data is locked up tighter than I've ever seen it before.
Posted by: plemeljr at April 6, 2005 12:09 AM #
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