Google Earth

[Jondon]

If you haven't checked this out yet, you should. This is the coolest free thing I've ever seen.

http://earth.google.com/

Then go to the "Get Google Earth (Free Version)" The app is about a 10meg to download and you need a newer computer and a high speed internet connection but if you can run this, it is really amazing.

- John

[68F250]

Another fun thing to do, Google your address, select "Map of" (your address) and click the "satellite" button. You can zoom in and out, drag the mouse, it's fun!

[shrektruck]

Yeah it might be fun but it makes my witness protection program a bitch!
Satellite schedules, overflight times, lookdown angles, who can remember all that stuff.....
Actually, I mapped my house and saw the wifes truck out front and the shrektruck alongside the house. Pretty scary stuff if you know how to link it to a targeting system.
Uhhhhhhh, not that I would do that or anything, and no one in a black helicopter ever showed up when I googled the congress.... I swear, really.
No one is here and no one has told me not to say uhhhhh, anything, uhhhhhh, about propulsion systems or foamed magnesium explosives. I swear.

[willowbilly3]

Don't do it when you are gone, might find a sancho-man's truck in the drive.

[2bocat]

HAAAAA! Willobilly!

Hadn't thought of that! Just wanted to let you know that Google Earth will work on slower dial-up connections...just sort of clunky and slow.

Have a look at the Eiffel tower out in Paris....check the shadow!

Also, try the pan/tilt feature on your house if you live on a hill....amazing.

[2bocat]

hmmmm...that's a good idea...used to live in Marietta...

[willowbilly3]

It won't zoom all the way in on my house, can barely make out the town and some highways, not individual streets though.

[Comet]

Yeah, I've looked at a sat. pic of my house and seen the yellow truck out back. Kinda funny. They seem to update it every couple a years. Wonder what I got in the driveway in the latest pic???

[FORDification]

Well, I finally got around to downloading this, and I have to admit, this is pretty darned cool! I've spent the last two hours just surfing around the world, checking out places I used to live, taking a look at the Eiffel Tower, etc.

It's great if you live in a city, or are looking for details there. But for those of us who live out in the sticks, about all we see is a blur on the map for our town, even though the blur has the streets mapped out. Guess there isn't a high priority for mapping details of the middle of Nebraska.

[Sharkdance]

Wont run on Linux

Sharkdance
1970 F250 2WD 360/C6

[OLEYELLERTRUCK]

I checked out Hoover Dam and it was pretty awesome, too.

[FORDification]

You know, this could be a whole new way of checking out salvage yards!

I was just randoming jumping around and zooming in on stuff, and found these down near Mobile Alabama:





We could start up a database with longitude and latitude coordinates of known salvage yards that we could checkout with GoogleEarth. Of course, the images aren't detailed enough to actually see what they've got, and the pics are kinda old, so the inventory would probably be different....AND we're not gonna be able to see smaller yards in rural areas, but hey, it's a start, right?

[Comet]

Keith, on another site I frequent where guys are looking for rare pre-war junk, guys do exactly what you are talking about. Looking for that yard this is not in the phone book. Then seeking it out and knocking on some doors.