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Google Earth
If you though Google maps were fun, try Google Earth. It often has
higher resolution than the maps and you can tilt your view into 3D. Once in 3D, pull with your mouse and then let go and you can fly over/through the terrain. Hands down, the best view of the world yet. Can't wait till we can link flight sims up with it. In much of the US view you can see down to small bush details on the ridges. Some of the rest of the world is not so detailed. Tim |
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If you though Google maps were fun, try Google Earth. It often has
higher resolution than the maps and you can tilt your view into 3D. Once in 3D, pull with your mouse and then let go and you can fly over/through the terrain. Hands down, the best view of the world yet. Can't wait till we can link flight sims up with it. In much of the US view you can see down to small bush details on the ridges. Some of the rest of the world is not so detailed. Tim Google Earth is a blast! Its a shame so much of it is in low resolution format (-always over your house!) but the high res is brilliant. Try "flying" up a mountain stream, or through really steep terrain. We should be pushing this type to all we know, it will only get better. Wayne |
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In article , bagmaker
writes If you though Google maps were fun, try Google Earth. It often has higher resolution than the maps and you can tilt your view into 3D. Once in 3D, pull with your mouse and then let go and you can fly over/through the terrain. Hands down, the best view of the world yet. Can't wait till we can link flight sims up with it. In much of the US view you can see down to small bush details on the ridges. Some of the rest of the world is not so detailed. Tim You can already see the sailplanes at Minden. But not at our field, the res at 52.27N 001.09 E isn't good enough. Yet. BTW I checked the long/lat for the Greenwich Observatory, and it was out by about 200 metres. -- Mike Lindsay |
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Hi-res Vinon sur Verdon, France (LFNF) at 43.74N 005.78E
In 2006 the WC club class will be held here. Hi-res gliders at Ocaņa, Spain at 39.935N 003.5W Our own field Steinberg by Surwold at 52.955N 007.55E |
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"Mike Lindsay" wrote in message ... In article , bagmaker writes If you though Google maps were fun, try Google Earth. It often has higher resolution than the maps and you can tilt your view into 3D. Once in 3D, pull with your mouse and then let go and you can fly over/through the terrain. Hands down, the best view of the world yet. Can't wait till we can link flight sims up with it. In much of the US view you can see down to small bush details on the ridges. Some of the rest of the world is not so detailed. Tim You can already see the sailplanes at Minden. But not at our field, the res at 52.27N 001.09 E isn't good enough. Yet. BTW I checked the long/lat for the Greenwich Observatory, and it was out by about 200 metres. -- Mike Lindsay Zero longitude on the WGS84 datum is about 100m east of the line marked on the ground at the observatory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Meridian The point of the arrow on this map http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.sr...=newsearch.srf ties up fairly well with the zero longitude line on Google Earth and appears to be pretty near 100m east of the observatory. The measurement tool is a bit limited in it's resolution at this scale. BTW if you convert your IGC logger file to a GPX file you can go fly your flight again. If you're lucky enough to have good Google Earth imagery where you're flying it's pretty realistic. This page seems to explain how although a geek in the office wrote a script to do the conversion for me. http://www.expandingknowledge.com/Je...htm#IGC_to_KML Stephen |
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On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:37:55 +0100, Stephen wrote:
"Mike Lindsay" wrote in message ... In article , bagmaker writes If you though Google maps were fun, try Google Earth. It often has higher resolution than the maps and you can tilt your view into 3D. Once in 3D, pull with your mouse and then let go and you can fly over/through the terrain. The main problem is that Google Earth required a special piece of Windows software to be installed. This is a problem for those of us who don't run Windows and/or cannot install software on the machine they are using. I recently stumbled on: http://www.geabios.com/ Which has full earth coverage via a Flash/javascript application. Its resolution isn't quite up to Google Earth but its easy to use. I was able to find the CGC field without trouble though the quality was barely enough to resolve the club house and not enough to see gliders. Still, as a fairly fast way of looking at images without needing special software its worth bookmarking. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | |
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If you have the GoogleEarth program loaded on your Windoze system, all
of the "Worldwide Soaring Turnpoint Exchange" sites are accessible from the kmz file available at http://soaring.aerobatics.ws/TP/google_earth.html |
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