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Google Adds Satellite Imagery for the World
draevil writes "Google has hugely expanded the areas of the world that it covers with satellite imagery. Egypt, Iraq, mainland Europe and the UK have all now got satellite coverage to a lesser or greater degree. Slashdotters can now go see sights like Buckingham Palace or the Arc de Triomphe from the comfort of their own swivelchairs. Iraq in particular seems to have a large number of high-zoom areas. I just looked up the Baghdad Parade Grounds where Saddam used to take the salute and other towns like Fallujah are also there. Finding landmarks without the map content is a little harder, so what can the Slashdot crowd find?"
This isn't a dupe. The previous update didn't allow you to zoom in so close on, for example, London.
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Oops. Here's the link.
I'd rather have someone respond than be modded up.
Eiffel Tower
St. Peter in Rome
Florence, Duomo
Water reservoirs in Sahara.
Creter of Vesuvius
Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes
I had the same problem, but then I looked under "Edit/Preferences/Web Features". Next to "Enable JavaScript" there is a button "Advanced" where you have to say that you allow the website to "modify images". After that it worked fine.
Map view implies a perspective from directly above the area in question.
Satellite view on the other hand uses whatever perspective afforded by the position of the satellite. It isn't always directly overhead, you know.
So they have to translate one perspective onto another.
The real question is, do they get to know where the satellite was when it took each photo in question, or do they arrive at the matrix in some other way?
- Tour Eiffel
- Giza Pyramids
- Pompeya
- Osaka airport
- Munich olimpic stadium
- City of arts in Valencia
- Expo 98 in Lisboa
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Traditionally they actually convert arial photography to an "orthophoto" - which is a processed version of the photo to have an orthographic projection.
(If you don't know what that is, it's when you take a camera that's completely directly on top of the target area, with a lens as big as what you're taking, so there's no perspective shortening at all.)
They can do it two ways, I guess they either know where the satelite is, or they locate enough points on the photo (ie: manually eyeball feature x) and knowing each point's real world coordinates (ie: feature x is at lat a long b) they can work out the projection / deprojection.
Certainly, the Auckland Harbour Bridge would look different - ie: not like a flat road in the water - if it was anything but an orthographic projection.
The Pyramids of Giza! Oh wait, no...
Yes?
Odd coincidence, just today I put up a set of pages derived from a database of the coordinates of all 788 of the Unesco World Heirtage sites, which includes many interesting landmarks.
Here is the page of Google Maps for World Heritage Sites, and there is also a blog entry for comments and corrections. Many can be zoomed in on. Enjoy.
Has it been over a year since you last donated to the Electronic Frontier Foundation
ITs either something thats been put there post-imaging or was on the lens. Open up all the links in separate firefox tabs then close them rapidly in succession. The 'blot' never moves.
Nothing to see here folks, please move along.
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Already done: http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/b/f/bfs124/area
it's inspired by the old Roman Arcs of Triumphs -- every victor general who came back to Rome had one erected for his parade. There are a few left over there.
This one was built for Napoleon, at the top of his strength. The area then was mostly underdeveloped, and remained so until the mid-1800s.
Though the place is now officially "Place Charles de Gaulle", it started as "Place de l'Étoile" (capital eacute between ' and t, in case Slashcode plays dirty), which is "Star Place", because it shines (of Napoleon's glory) and because tons of roads converge there. Whatever.
They were fixing the roof - it's a cover supported by scaffolding.
I've had the same problem in the past. Make sure you are allowing scripts to change images.
In your Options/Preferences dialog, go to Web Features and click the Advanced button next to Enable Javascript. In that dialog, make sure Change Images is selected. That worked for me.
They are ballons (of the hot air powered kind), out of focus because they are quite high above the ground. Thats also the reason no shadow is visible.
Rembember, those pics (the higher resolution ones) were made by aircraft, not sattelites, so the depht of field is not that large.
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
Tokyo, Shibuya
Also, the Meguro Station got a new cover, which blends in on the old/new edge:
Tokyo, Meguro Station
"Freiheit ist immer auch die Freiheit des Andersdenkenden" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1871 - 1919
There are anti aircraft missiles stationed up there, and the non-censored pic would show how many
If you know they're there, any would-be attackers know it.
Besides, showing those missiles would be a serious deterrent.
perhaps they could even be identified.
Unless they're of North Korean origin, there is no problem with that.
Please stop this paranoid nonsense. Terrorist attacks kill far less people than smoking misguided military adventures by a rogue state somewhere in North America that isn't Canada or Mexico, or drunk driving. Outside of Iraq terrorism is a non-problem. (And inside Iraq it's a small problem compared to the problem of the military occupation)
You can search Google maps by typing in the longitude and latitude.
4 4%C2%B011'54%22E&spn=0.006416,0.007907&t=k&hl=en
Abu Ghurayb is 3318'58"N 04411'54"E
So you can see that here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=33%C2%B018'58%22N+0
Looking at the pictures from my area (Munich, Germany), I would say the pictures are from august or september 2004 (could also be 2003)
6 &spn=0.006480,0.009345&t=k&hl=en you can see the construction site of the new Munich soccer stadium. The transparent roof seems half done, so I would say not earlier than 2004.
1 &spn=0.012960,0.018690&t=k&hl=en are the tents of the Oktoberfest (at least people from Australia/Japan should know it). Looks like the picture was taken a few weeks before the opening end of september.
Here http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=48.218275,11.62487
Here http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=48.132391,11.54914
Fairly recent pictures for the money, I would say.
How come Google hasn't announced that their satellite imagery is from some secret spy-sat that has X-RAY VISION! One would think that would be something for the marketing department. Just take a look at the imagery of Oslo Town Hall: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Norway&ll=59.91117 2,10.733042&spn=0.004506,0.007725&t=k&hl=en
What is normally a big square boxy building built by bricks and therefore reddish-brown in color is here seen as a projection of the first underground floor (that green thing).
Their spy-tech needs some work tho, as you can see the shadows of the sqare walls quite well. People could hide bombs in shadows, you know.
#1 and #2 look like weather balloons (didn't look at the rest).
Weather balloons are made of a material that has a pearlescent cool white color, and are going to seem much larger in aircraft-based images because of their higher balloon-altitude/aircraft-altitude ratio.
I saw one of these from the ground once (for whatever reason, it failed to reach its maximum altitude, and got stuck around 10-20 thousand feet), and mistook it for a UFO until I got some binoculars and saw the tehers and instrument package underneath it.
I can't be assed into making links, but here's some stuff for ya:
3 7371,-118.082052&spn=0.006641,0.006652&t=k&hl=en 1 184,-76.330261&spn=0.018625,0.035448&t=k&hl=en 3 845,-76.331667&spn=0.005397,0.007918&t=k&hl=en 2 3520,-118.091547&spn=0.006641,0.006652&t=k&hl=en
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=palmdale,ca&ll=34.6
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=norfolk,va&ll=36.95
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=norfolk,va&ll=36.95
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=palmdale,ca&ll=34.6
The images of Helsinki, Finland are from summer 2002 or slightly earlier. This is evident from the fact that the construction of the new indoor bus terminal in Kamppi hasn't even started yet.
If you ever have issues with Google Maps in firefox, the fix is:
Tools > Options > Web Features
ensure Javascript is checked and click Advanced
The key option is "Change Images". If this is not checked, you'll get a gray box every time.
-spl
What's funny about that is that microsoft isn't
2 83,-122.128122&sll=47.674167,-122.120278&spn=0.008 487,0.010664&sspn=0.097332,0.115013&t=k&hl=en
there. You missed them by a few miles.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=microsoft&ll=47.639
If you know they're there, any would-be attackers know it.Besides, showing those missiles would be a serious deterrent.
Knowing that the White House is guarded by AA batteries is not the same as knowing what types of missiles they have and where they're located.
Compare the situation to a grocery or department store -- you know there are a lot of black domes on the ceiling that could be hiding cameras, but you don't know how many actually are or where they're pointing. Telling people that there are cameras present is a deterence, but letting them know exactly where the cameras are gives too much information to would-be shoplifters.
Please stop this paranoid nonsense. Terrorist attacks kill far less people than smoking misguided military adventures by a rogue state somewhere in North America that isn't Canada or Mexico, or drunk driving.
Less likely, but still non-zero. When you're doing risk analysis, if something has only a 1% chance of happening, but the consequences would be catastrophic, it's prudent to take precautions. And keeping the military defenses of the Chief Executive's mansion secret is a perfectly sensible precaution.
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That is farmland. The fields are circular for irrigation reasons, and yes, they look like that from the sky.
Notice the green dots? I guess Google's censoring some of their map data.
Someone apparently hasn't flown cross-country.
The green is plants. They're circular because there's a irrigation machine like this spinning around on a central pivot.
dreamland or groom lake... not the video game one of my favorites... its in the US, but i still like it http://maps.google.com/maps?q=N+37+15+W+115+49&spn =0.081110,0.096731&t=k&hl=en
When talking about closed curves bound in a given plane, you refer to the length of the border as perimeter, not circumference. Circumference is only used when talking about circles. The Maree Man has a 28km perimeter.