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Old September 12th 07, 08:07 AM posted to alt.comp.freeware,sci.geo.satellite-nav,rec.aviation.piloting
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Default How to search on the Internet for Steve Fossett's Citabria taildragger

0. Install Google Earth freeware on your PC:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/...le-Earth.shtml

1. Download the map update recently taken of the search area this week
http://s3.amazonaws.com/fossett/geoeye-color.kml

2. Start Google Earth and Load the new GeoEye maps into Google Earth.
File - Open - geoeye-color.kml

3. When you zoom in to about 150 miles above the California Nevada border,
you can see the newly added GeoEye color maps will be a greener (summer)
color than the older maps. This is the search area. It's huge.

4. You can zoom down to the 12,000 foot level (or whatever) and search the
area for the blue Citabria taildragger. You can find a picture of the actual plane here
http://www.stevefossett.com

5. In addition, you can get a search area assigned to you on Amazon's
Mechanical Turk by going here
http://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?g...21T60&kw=Flash

7. Then press the "Accept Hit" button and log in.

8. Then press on the link "To help in the search for Steve Fossett, please
click here" and then press on the link "Work on HITs", whatever a "hit" is.

9. What this does is gives you a zoomed-in view of YOUR SEARCH AREA (they
give a search area to each person). If you see his plane, then you tell
them on that web page.

10. If you want, they also give you coordinates such as
"38.117852,-119.279851" which you can then go back and paste into the
Google Earth tool to look at the same location and zoom around using the
Google Earth software.

Hope you find something interesting!
 




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