Google Earth

[TomJoe]

Anyone play around with this program?

It's awesome.

Post your interesting satellite photos in this thread.

The following picture is taken of Tinker Air Force Base, in Oklahoma City.

[TomJoe]

The Chrysler Building, Manhattan.

[Leesifer]

That's great TomJoe.

I've only just started playing around with Google Earth and, I agree, it's awesome.

[Crumb]

Google Earth won't work on my computer, but I can find similar stuff with maps.google.com.

A version of Stonehenge (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Maryhill,+Washington&ll=45.694010,-120.806147&spn=0.004976,0.009346&t=h&hl=en)

Mt. St. Helens (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Portland,+Oregon&ll=46.200270,-122.188911&spn=0.039449,0.074771&t=h&hl=en)

Crater Lake National Park (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Crater+Lake,+OR&spn=0.333775,0.598171&t=h&hl=en)

[Ymir's blood]

Google Earth won't work on my computer, but I can find similar stuff with maps.google.com.

A version of Stonehenge (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Maryhill,+Washington&ll=45.694010,-120.806147&spn=0.004976,0.009346&t=h&hl=en)
It's in danger of being trampled by a dwarf! :gimli:

[livius drusus]

To give an idea of the scale:

http://www.freethought-forum.com/livius/google1.jpg

Extreme closeup:

http://www.freethought-forum.com/livius/google2.jpg

[Crumb]

Cool liv. Have you taken a terrestrial pic of that fountain?

[livius drusus]

Naw, but my dad probably has hundreds of slides of it. I need to get those things on CD for him one of these years.

[Cynical-Chick]

The Grand Canyon (http://photobucket.com/albums/v344/CynicalChick3125/Google%20Earth/Grand%20Canyon/) is nifty.

[Trojan]

To give an idea of the scale:

http://www.freethought-forum.com/livius/google1.jpg

Extreme closeup:

http://www.freethought-forum.com/livius/google2.jpg
How Cool! Do you really live in Rome?? Awesome photos! I love that stuff. Wish I knew how to post pics. Rome? Really?

[livius drusus]

I used to many years ago, Trojan. I lived in Italy from infancy until I was 18. That apartment was the last one we lived in Rome. :)

[Trojan]

I used to many years ago, Trojan. I lived in Italy from infancy until I was 18. That apartment was the last one we lived in Rome. :)
That is very impressive. How awesome it would be to live in a place like that! A city with so much history and character. I picture narrow streets, the smells of food and tobacco, the locals going about their chores. So different from going to the car, taking the interstate to work, hitting the drive-thru. How fortunate you are! I'm sick with jealousy. :lecher:

[Crumb]

I wish I had Google Earth and lived in Rome. :deepsigh:

[godfry n. glad]

I'm impressed, but after playing with it for a while, I was disappointed that the clarity at low scale varies considerably from location to location. Of course, I was trying to look at locales in Central Asia. I just couldn't get down to where I could distinguish autos on the roads, it was just too blurry. Whereas, I could practically identify my vehicle, parked in front of my house and all the trees on my lot.

[Trojan]

It is very cool doing Google Earth but imagine a govt. agency checking your property out, a perv looking at a kid's school. Husbands & Wives spying on eachother, the boss checking out your driveway to see if you really are sick. Burglars watching your habits, stalkers watching your daughters. It's fascinating technology but maybe too fascinating. It stands to reason this will only get more advanced, with live action video of anyone, anywhere. Could I follow Ariel Sharon around for a week? Hate to be a bugaboo but I always manage to find the negative. :dunno:

[Crumb]

:noid:

[TomJoe]

The Holy See

[BDS]

I've walked right by the drusus house.

Nobody let me in (although it was after livius moved out).


Three coins in a fountain
Each one seeking happiness
Thrown by three hopeful lovers
Which one will the fountain bless

Three hearts it a fountain
Each heart longing for it’s home
There they lie in the fountain
Somewhere in the heart of rome

Which one will the fountain bless
Which one will the fountain bless

Three coins in a fountain
Through the ripples how they shine
Just one wish will be granted
One heart will wear a valentine

Make it mine, make it mine, make it mine

For anyone who has not seen the movie "Three Coins in a Fountain", it's as corny a bit of 50s Americana (set in Rome) as anyone could hope for. Great flick.

Didn't some woman splash around in the Trevi fountain in the last scene of some Fellini film?

[Crumb]

Space Needle (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=47.620281,-122.349694&spn=0.009604,0.012047&t=k&hl=en)

[livius drusus]

For anyone who has not seen the movie "Three Coins in a Fountain", it's as corny a bit of 50s Americana (set in Rome) as anyone could hope for. Great flick.


Needless to say, I totally second this. Although for cheesy 50s Americana set in Rome nothing beats Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday.

Didn't some woman splash around in the Trevi fountain in the last scene of some Fellini film?

Anita Eckberg in La Dolce Vita, with an agape-jawed Marcello Mastroianni looking on. Such a great movie. :yup:

[cappuccino]

No way! You did not live near the Trevi Fountain.

That's pretty awesome. I always stop at Trevi everytime I'm in Rome. I vaguely remember that shoe store you pointed out in the picture though I never shopped in there. Last time I was in Rome, previous May, I was watching all those people toss coins over their back while an Italian officer gentleman was patrolling the fountain and preventing people from sitting on the marble rim. Three years ago, there were four hot young Italian police men sitting on motorcycles keeing an eye on the people milling in the piazza. There were plenty also keeping an eye on the men too, including mine. :giggle:

[livius drusus]

Oh yes, that's a prime people-watching area. Even though it's inevitably flocked with tourists, it's also a regular haunt for Romans, checking out the view if you know what I mean (and you clearly do). ;)

[Legs]

London :unitedkingdom:

London Eye and Houses of Parliament opposite each other across the Thames and at the top of the meander of the Thames, just before the second bridge ~ the Savoy Hotel :yup:

[cappuccino]

An image of Champs-Elysées, Paris. It also reveals a very nice example of the amazing geometric outlay of Parisian streets. They did some amazing work renovating the city in the 19th century...I have to admit, Paris' much more appealizing to the eyes than any other cities visible from the space.