New RAS game: Name that Googleport and add your own

I have added links to the Google satellite maps in the 'Worldwide Soaring
Turnpoint Exchange" [ http://soaring.aerobatics.ws ], as well as Google's
road maps, Rand McNally's road maps and - most useful of all for the
landoutacholics - driving instructions from the home 'drom to the turnpoints
and other waypoints for all of the US sites [I'll install a little form for
your crew to enter your lat/lon if you don't make it to an airport,
"shortly"]. The links are G and g for the Google maps and satellite images,
R and r for the Rand McNally maps and driving.

While the Google pics can be very nice, they are a bit spotty and for
example TSA is not very good at all, while just a couple of miles north the
resolution improves substantially. The Terraserver maps, which have been
linked to for years, show a glider on the runway at TSA, so one has to click
and choose. I recently added the Onearth satellite images, link code "O",
which has pretty good - but not as good as the best of the Google's - images
of the whole world.

This was done in a rush, so the column headers don't quite line up any more
in the contol point listings...

John Leibacher '2E'

Some similar UK links

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cg...X=528379&Y=255
942&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coor dsys=gb&db=&pc=&
zm=0&scale=25000&downright.x=63&downright.y=5

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cg...X=527500&Y=282
500&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coor dsys=gb&db=&pc=&
zm=0&scale=50000&multimap.x=280&multimap.y=111

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cg...X=465000&Y=282
500&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coor dsys=gb&db=&pc=&
zm=0&scale=50000&multimap.x=360&multimap.y=177

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cg...X=480000&Y=447
500&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coor dsys=gb&db=&pc=&
zm=0&scale=50000&multimap.x=278&multimap.y=117

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cg...X=467684&Y=143
473&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coor dsys=gb&db=&pc=&
zm=0&scale=50000&multimap.x=360&multimap.y=145

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cg...X=317342&Y=232
158&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coor dsys=gb&db=freeg
az&pc=&zm=0&scale=10000&out.x=6&out.y=9

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cg...X=452500&Y=482
500&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coor dsys=gb&db=&pc=&
zm=0&scale=50000&multimap.x=278&multimap.y=267

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cg...X=340316&Y=291
263&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coor dsys=gb&db=&pc=&
zm=0&scale=10000&out.x=4&out.y=11

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cg...X=500526&Y=219
736&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coor dsys=gb&db=&pc=&
zm=0&scale=10000&out.x=6&out.y=11

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cg...X=380685&Y=201
960&width=700&height=410&gride=380462.801967984&gr idn=200310.89006
6259&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=freegaz&pc=&zm=0&scale= 10000&out.x=8&ou
t.y=11

More OLC Kilometers flown here last year than any place in the U.S.
Going to be the same thing this year, too, except this year, we take
the WORLD.


http://maps.google.com/maps?q=moriar...1628&t=k&hl=en

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:25:38 -0600, Shawn
sdotcurry@bresnananotherdotnet wrote:

Bill Daniels wrote:
Last year, more OLC kilometers were flown by the club at this site than any
other in the world.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.118...9238&t=k&hl=en

I started my Diamond distance from this site.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.118...9238&t=k&hl=en

I fly here now.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.118...9238&t=k&hl=en

I thought you were flying from here now:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.118...7596&t=k&hl=en

Bill, check your links. They're all the same site (Albert Lea?).
Nope, that is Benson Airport. Just north of White Bear Lake MN


Shawn

Here you go--not very good resolution, but you can see the line of hangars.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=30.19...9868&t=k&hl=en
Somebody turn on the sprinklers, it's lookin' kinda brown....

"Soar Stanton MN" wrote in message
...

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Marico...9903&t=k&hl=en

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.426...5525&t=k&hl=en

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=&ll=38...6716&t=k&hl=en

Resolution is pretty lousy. It's a lot greener here in SC than the
sites out west.



Soar Stanton MN wrote:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Marico...9903&t=k&hl=en

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sparta...6519&t=k&hl=en

Ok, I screwed that up !

Try this one.

In article .com,
"Doug Snyder" wrote:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=&ll=38...1888,0.016716&
t=k&hl=en

Resolution is pretty lousy. It's a lot greener here in SC than the
sites out west.

Gosh one half of that is crap resolution, the other half is great.

I don't know what the resolution of these pics are, but they're showing
up 1m chord glider wings pretty well.

--
Bruce | 41.1670S | \ spoken | -+-
Hoult | 174.8263E | /\ here. | ----------O----------

I suspect the google maps are using the same database as the keyhole
software - which in itself is pretty cool and they offer a free 7 day
trial. The issue is that most of the US is low resolution and only
major "metro" areas are very high resolution.

http://www.keyhole.com/?promo=gdl-en

-Tom