[TriLUG] OT: maps.google.com satellite maps

[Dan Monjar]

Brian Henning wrote:
> Yeah, I picked up on that on some road construction along Guess Rd in 
> northern Durham.  It's long since finished, compared to the state it's 
> in in the satellite imagery.  So the presence of the carnival is 
> probably just an incredible coincidence (or, potentially, that 
> particular area *was* photographed recently).
> 
> Still, pretty cool that it's a lot more recent than the 1986 imagery 
> that was on TerraServer when I last looked at it (which was in 1998).
> 

I know it is not Linux but you guys ought to look at www.keyhole.com, 
this is the company that Google bought to bring you these images.  I 
spent the $29.95 for a year to run Keyhole on the family's machine. 
Their program combined with their images is amazing.  The highest-res 
place is in downtown San Diego.  Raleigh-Durham has a 2 foot resolution, 
  downtown SD is 3 inches... it is amazing.

They also have a forum board where keyhole geeks get together to trade 
locations coordinates.  There's images in the database that shown planes 
in flight and such... or so I've heard.

Wow, off-topic and mentioning the evil empire, am I a rebel or what? ;-)
-- 
Dan Monjar