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Just having a play with this..... potentially its good, especially with the overlay of caches

 

However the rest of the world is crystal clear down to 1000 m but most of england is very fuzzy and basically looking for roads, paths etc etc is impossible

 

What if anything am I doing wrong ?

 

It appears that if you are in a brown patch you can get down and nearly see the people but if you are in a green patch you cant

Edited by harrogate hunters
Posted
Just having a play with this..... potentially its good, especially with the overlay of caches

 

However the rest of the world is crystal clear down to 1000 m but most of england is very fuzzy and basically looking for roads, paths etc etc is impossible

 

What if anything am I doing wrong ?

 

It appears that if you are in a brown patch you can get down and nearly see the people but if you are in a green patch you cant

HH

 

If you knew where I lived you could actually see me mowing my lawn on Google earth

 

Milton (aka Moote)

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If you knew where I lived you could actually see me mowing my lawn on Google earth

 

Milton (aka Moote)

 

Multi-tasking ..... mowing the lawn and surfing the forums, impressive! ;)

Yes and I'm on the phone and cooking my dinner as we type.

 

Milton (aka Moote)

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Look at me, in the forums and pretending to work simultaneously. ;)

 

Edit - Oh yes, the topic - blurry as anything where I am. I just tried to use tilt on the spinnaker down in Portsmouth to get the full 3d effect. That doesn't work how you'd expect!

Edited by Kitty Hawk
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When I first used it a couple of months ago, very little of the UK was high resolution (especially where I live). Now there is a lot more high res coverage and my home area is now covered to the same level as multimap. :D

 

Looks like they'll eventually get the whole lot covered (fingers crossed). :D

 

The level of detail in areas like New York is great and they evem have high quality images of "Area 51"! ;)

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Look at me, in the forums and pretending to work simultaneously. ;)

 

Edit - Oh yes, the topic - blurry as anything where I am. I just tried to use tilt on the spinnaker down in Portsmouth to get the full 3d effect. That doesn't work how you'd expect!

I think the 3D effect only works on terrain. Check out the grand canyon etc. :D

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....... they evem have high quality images of "Area 51"!  ;)

I thought that that was not suppose to exist :D

Yep it is exists, Groom Lake, about 90 miles north of Las Vegas :D

 

Hangar18-Area51.jpg

 

The building in the centre is Hangar 18 (where the little green men are :D )

Edited by nediam
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Been using Google since it started but can't seem to get it to show any caches, even though we clicked the bit on GC.COM. Are we missing something?

 

You need to download the file "GeocachingNetworkKML.kml" which is found Here and then load that with Google Earth

 

Milton (aka Moote)

Edited by Moote
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No, some pieces of the map are just higher resolution than others.

The highest resolution aerial images available on GE are at an amazing 1 inch-per-pixel - of this building, and the area surrounding it...

 

googpic2.jpg

 

See if you can figure out where and what it is... ;)

 

-Wlw.

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