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Google Adds Satellite Imagery for the World

Posted by timothy on from the they're-just-making-that-stuff-up dept.

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?"

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  1. some more interesing objects by ^Z · · Score: 5, Informative

    Eiffel Tower
    St. Peter in Rome
    Florence, Duomo

    Water reservoirs in Sahara.

    Creter of Vesuvius

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  2. Re:Streched Images? by nokilli · · Score: 3, Informative

    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?

  3. Eiffel tower, Giza pyramids.. by Guiri · · Score: 4, Informative
    More interesting links: Gotta love this maps..
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  4. I 'found' all the Unesco World Heritage Sites by btempleton · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  5. Re:UFOs! by imsabbel · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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  6. Re:How old are the images? by gullevek · · Score: 4, Informative
    they are very old for some parts. The trash burning facility near me has still the old tower and that was sure replaced very long ago. Plus right through Shibuya goes the map cut of old (see post of Roppongi Hills) and _very_old. Funny thing is the Cerullian Tower (Hotel) there "blends" in on the edge of old and new.

    Tokyo, Shibuya

    Also, the Meguro Station got a new cover, which blends in on the old/new edge:

    Tokyo, Meguro Station

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  7. Searching with long/lat and Abu Ghurayb by buro9 · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can search Google maps by typing in the longitude and latitude.

    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+04 4%C2%B011'54%22E&spn=0.006416,0.007907&t=k&hl=en

  8. Re:First to find.... by djocyko · · Score: 3, Informative

    What's funny about that is that microsoft isn't
    there. You missed them by a few miles.

    http://maps.google.com/maps?q=microsoft&ll=47.6392 83,-122.128122&sll=47.674167,-122.120278&spn=0.008 487,0.010664&sspn=0.097332,0.115013&t=k&hl=en