[meteorite-list] Google Maps

From: Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 7 13:39:10 2005
Message-ID: <007f01c53b98$b1bd2d00$6401a8c0_at_Dell>

WOW! Sterling, no comparision. Terraserver wins by a mile!!!! Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <kelly_at_bhil.com>
To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Google Maps


> Hi,
>
> Google maps is fun, but not terribly useful. I spent a quarter hour
> trying to find Manacouagan crater, to duplicate Marc's view, with atlases
> at
> my side to help me, but Google Maps refused to do it without my coughing
> up
> its postal code. Do craters have postal codes?
> I tried Google maps on my own house. I got a map, but no satellite view
> -- unavailable says Google. The locator pin icon for my house was in the
> right street but in the wrong block of the street.
> I tried Google maps on my store, in another town. Again, I got a map,
> but
> no satellite view. Again, the locator pin icon for my store was in the
> right
> street but the wrong block. Obviously, Google is interpolating locations
> from what is probably a postal-type database, without even cross-checking
> adjacent block start numbers.
> I reduced the zoom scale and got a satellite view covering 16 square
> miles, a great rolling sea of green Midwestern vegetation without a single
> visible road, city, or any other mark of man's presence -- it might as
> well
> have been photographed in the year 1800!
> It's a pretty interface and makes a great rolling road map, but it's a
> long way from being The Great Eye of God for us to access! It does do a
> fantastic job of finding the nearest pizza joint to any location, and
> that's
> just what Google wants it to do. That's what this is all about, you know.
> In the area around my store, there were many pin locator icons
> referenced
> to other local businesses which were also listed on the side by name and
> with
> phone numbers. My business was not among them. Hey, Google, where do I
> sign
> up? (And how much will it cost me?)
> TerraServer, on the other hand, is fantastic. It managed to put my
> house
> in the right block, even though at the wrong end of the block. It showed
> me
> a satellite view at highest resolution that showed a two block by two
> block
> area in which I could see my house and count the windows, despite the
> fuzzy
> grey low-contrast B&W aerial photo.
> It did the same for my store. I tried it for my brother's house in
> Louisville, Kentucky, and got a stunning color view with a resolution of
> about 2-3 pixels per foot! You could identify cars by year and model,
> count
> mailboxes, and I could see a soccer ball in one of the front yards!
> Pretty
> impressive.
> Here's Terraserver's view of the Meteor Crater in Arizona at medium
> resolution:
> <http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.aspx?S=14&T=1&lat=35.0281&lon=-111.0225>
>
> Try zooming in, and you'll get excellent high-resolution close-up views
> right down into the crater. Count the rocks.
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
> --------------------------------------
>
> Marc Fries wrote:
>
>> Howdy
>>
>> Ok, this is pretty cool:
>>
>> http://maps.google.com/
>>
>> Google has developed a seamless map database that cross-links to
>> satellite photos. I scrolled this thing from Manacouagan crater to
>> Wetumpka crater, then out to Hawaii and "visited" my current home and
>> my mom's house on the way. This is actually a pretty spectacular site
>> for locating physical landform features and cross-referencing them to a
>> road map.
>> I can see my house from here!
>>
>> Enjoy,
>> MDF
>>
>> --
>> Marc Fries
>> Postdoctoral Research Associate
>> Carnegie Institution of Washington
>> Geophysical Laboratory
>> 5251 Broad Branch Rd. NW
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