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Posted: 18th February 2005 18:08
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Found this software at another forum and decided to share. I'm sure most people have seen Terraserver, etc. with the storage of satellite imagery that you can view. NASA has released a standalone program that does a lot of the same, and it's pretty cool for free. There are several different views, though I prefer the black-and-white USGS satellite imagery. Learn more at http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/download.html and post your screencaps here (sized down, if you will).
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Posted: 18th February 2005 21:00
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My House
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Posted: 18th February 2005 21:13
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Awwww... the program is 169 mb and I have dial-up
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Posted: 18th February 2005 23:04
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Cool program Josh, black and white was the only one that seemed to get good detail up close. I wanted to spy.
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Posted: 19th February 2005 04:14
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I find this really neat.
 It is much more detailed than I thought it would be. The blue circle is my house. The orange one is our shed. If you look closely, you can see a rectangle behind the orange circle. It even picked up our garden. The green circle would be our pole barn. Now to look up other "neat" places.  -------------------- "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle |
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Posted: 21st February 2005 23:48
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 I put a blue arrow indicating MY house. The USGS was off by two houses. This thread gives me the creeps, btw. ( Full Size Image ) This post has been edited by The_Pink_Nu1 on 21st February 2005 23:52 -------------------- SPEKKIO: "GRRR...That was most embarrassing!" |
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Post #73572
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Posted: 22nd February 2005 02:52
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*studies images*
Ok....hmmmm..... *writes down Long/Lat* Ok, THIS spot would be good... Erm, when do you guys go to sleep? lol jp -------------------- "Dance, water, dance!" -Demyx, Kingdom Hearts II "I met my love before I was born..." -AFI, 'Love Like Winter' from 'Decemberunderground' Currently Playing: Guitar Hero, Shadow of the Colossus |
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Posted: 22nd February 2005 04:35
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I can't get it to work. Says something's missing
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Posted: 22nd February 2005 11:11
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Quote (Dark Paladin @ 21st February 2005 23:35) I can't get it to work. Says something's missing Helpful. If something's missing, it's probably the .NET framework. But it should try to get you to DL and install it rather than just bailing out. But it's hard to say since you don't actually say yourself. -------------------- "To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN? |
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Posted: 22nd February 2005 12:34
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Oooh, let's look at the middle east!
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Posted: 23rd February 2005 03:28
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Unfortunatly it appears that most of the images of my city are greater than 7 years old, so I'm having a hard time locating the place I live now, before, and before that. I can show you a few things though.
The spot where my old house was built on. Apparently this photo was taken right before it was built...in 1997. PESH, my old high school. Notice the little lake there in the middle? It's incredibly fun to drive through.  The place where most of my weekends begin. Sure it looks like nothing now, that's because the photo was taken before they made it a wet county. -------------------- "My impersonation of an ordinary person was flawless." - Neal "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss |
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Posted: 25th February 2005 22:19
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Interesting program. In my job for the government, I use some fun software that does similar mapping. However, our pixel resolution is a tad better on our aerial imagery.
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Posted: 31st March 2005 04:01
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lolz, so it like took me a month to like download this thing and um OK? Just kidding, I just didn't get around to checking it out until now.
The condo complex I used to live at The blue circle is where I lived with my parents and the red circle is my car. I always parked in that spot and my car is silver, so yes I know it's mine. The condo complex I currently live at Here's my little 1 bedroom place, represented by the blue circle, and the red circle is my parking spot. It's nice not having to walk a mile to get to my car. Cool stuff.  This post has been edited by i90east on 31st March 2005 04:03 -------------------- FFXI (Siren server) Tauu the Windurstian Tarutaru! White Mage & Paladin |
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Posted: 31st March 2005 06:15
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 <Angry that this program is for Windows only, first I can't get Roadrunner and now this, seems like an awesome program too -------------------- |
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Posted: 31st March 2005 07:19
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Roughly how long does it take for the download just to start? I already did my homework, got a bowl of cereal, and replied to some other threads and the download STILL isn't ready. I know it's big but, just to start it?
Edit: Thanks i90, the google search worked better.  . Also it is on download.com (faster than the NASA site ) This post has been edited by Racthoh on 1st April 2005 22:45 -------------------- This is my world: (Got my second chapter up, 3rd Chapter about 80% complete) http://www3.sympatico.ca/daniel876/homepage.html |
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Posted: 31st March 2005 08:18
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Okay, got it working best it's gonna get.
Where I live now. Nice place as far as I'm concerned, but it's got a few more spiders than I care for. Oh well. Least I'm finally living on my own. Where I used to live. Lived there the majority of my life. Small box is the house itself. Living there I hated it, now that I've tasted urban living, god do I miss it. Where I used to learn. Me old highshool. The reason I hated living at my old house. Place sucks and god willing will burn down again (happened once already by accident and they're actual proud of it...go figure). Where I recently used to learn (it's the small box in the top corner). They're big thing was that they were so close to Pixar (da big box on the bottom), which didn't mean a damb thing. We got to go as a graduation present, but it was very disappointing. They treated us...well I wouldn't say poorly, but they obviously didn't think highly of us. I can understand that...it's a tech school after all. This post has been edited by Narratorway on 31st March 2005 09:26 -------------------- |
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Posted: 31st March 2005 08:37
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Oh man
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Posted: 31st March 2005 23:52
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Quote (Racthoh) Roughly how long does it take for the download just to start? I already did my homework, got a bowl of cereal, and replied to some other threads and the download STILL isn't ready. I know it's big but, just to start it? Nasa's servers are terrible. I found another site to download it from and it was fast (only took 6 minutes). I don't remember which site it was though. It wasn't download.com or zdnet, but something else. Search for it on Google or something. -------------------- FFXI (Siren server) Tauu the Windurstian Tarutaru! White Mage & Paladin |
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