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Satellite Easter Eggs
TheChocolatay writes "Wired has a story on hidden finds in satellite images. They range from sporting events to natural disasters to bombs and firefights in Iraq. Some very interesting and cool pictures." From the article: "Part of it is that we collect so much imagery that a lot of times no eyes have seen a lot of this stuff,...And so (we) go to an area, pop it open, and wow, we didn't intend to capture this icebreaker pushing this submarine."
that this is similar a bit to Google Sightseeing
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say
Here are some google sightseeing sites- mine first, of course!
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perljam.net/notes/interesting-google-satellite-ma
http://www.paulrademacher.com/housing/
www.shreddies.org/gmaps/
cryptome.org/usndc-eyeball.htm
del.icio.us/knodi/google_maps
www.returnofdesign.com/feature.php?article=12
gmaps.nicj.net/
-ted
Here is area 51, really: Area 51
I TUDE
A plane taking off at SFO
Edwards, with two SR-71 Blackbird
Niagara Falls
Norfolk, with two aircraft carrier
Mount St-Helens
Hollywood, litterally
To find the picture of a particular position, use:
http://maps.google.com/?t=k&z=3&ll=LATTITUDE,LONG
LATTITUDE and LONGITUDE in degree (like 100.003441).
Enjoy!
In 1996, the US Congress passed the Kyl-Bingaman Amendment to the Defense Appropriations Act. That law says that the US government may not license an American remote sensing company to collect or disseminate imagery of Israel at a better resolution than what is generally available from remote sensing companies in other countries, i.e. 2 meters.
And the Whitehouse isn't blurred but the roof is has been 'cleaned' off
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=washington+DC&ll=38
Now I hope and pray that I will But today I am still, just a bill
You want a high definition sat image of Area 51? Your wish is my command.