+Vaudesir Posted July 9, 2006 Posted July 9, 2006 Hello, I use Google Earth a lot for geocaching and waymaring. This morning, I noticed by chance something that caught my eye: a Plane was apparently crossing a busy street in San Jose, CA. I guess I am not the first one who have noticed it and I was wondering if anybody would think it's fun to try to collect all the planes in flight in Google Earth. As an example, open Google Earth and look at 37.222130°, -121.877566° It is not real gomarking and planes might disappear as soon as Google publish updated views of an area but I still think it's fun to gather all those planes in flight.
+SCOTUS Posted July 9, 2006 Posted July 9, 2006 Vaudesir, This idea is an interesting one, though I'm not sure if it would make a good category. I like the idea of trying to find the planes in flight, but don't know who one would visit the waymarks that were created. I think it would be fun to publish all the planes in flight somewhere, but I'm not sure if the Waymarking site is the best place to do so. Cheers, SCOTUS
+SUp3rFM & Cruella Posted July 9, 2006 Posted July 9, 2006 Check this: http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/20...in_fligh_1.html Waymark category? No, I don't think so. Every now and then, Google updates the images so previous found planes disappear.
+Team JSAM Posted July 9, 2006 Posted July 9, 2006 (edited) That should be an easy cache to find as its right under a huge airplane. or A really hard one to find as its on top of a huge airplane! Edited July 9, 2006 by Team Jsam
+StagsRoar Posted July 10, 2006 Posted July 10, 2006 Thats looks so cooool! I wouldn't have considered things like that with satellite Imagery.
+alexrudd Posted July 26, 2006 Posted July 26, 2006 Heh, I thought you meant live tracking like this or this. There's already a Google Earth fansite or two that collects these photos, I think it would be much more suitable there than as a waymark.
Jeremy Posted July 27, 2006 Posted July 27, 2006 We were considering a "Experimental" root category for these kinds of ideas. That way it could sit outside the area where people would want to see interesting objects that are actually there.
+SUp3rFM & Cruella Posted July 27, 2006 Posted July 27, 2006 We were considering a "Experimental" root category for these kinds of ideas. That way it could sit outside the area where people would want to see interesting objects that are actually there. Since Google is updating its imagery some marks would live only a few months. Would that be reasonable?
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