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 BW 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=14T=1lat=35.0281lon=-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 Washington, DC 20015 PH: 202 478 7970 FAX: 202 478 8901 - I urge you to show your support to American servicemen and servicewomen currently serving in harm's way by donating items they personally request at: http://www.anysoldier.com (This is not an endorsement by the Geophysical Laboratory or the Carnegie Institution.) _ __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Google Maps
Oh, for Christ's sake, folks! Y'all are looking at this whole Google Maps thing the wrong way. Try this: ---===it's FREE===--- It will not locate each hair on your head or make the longer-lasting light bulb, but it serves well as another tool in your cartographical toolbox. I've found it to be very useful for starting with an overhead view and then reverting to a map, to serve as a starting point for a more detailed site like Terraserver. This is especially useful when you've got a site without a street address, such as ...here we go again... Manacougan crater! Now, as an aside - I'm told that the nuclear test craters north of Mercury, NV are quite striking. Have a blast, so to speak. Cheers, MDF -- Marc Fries Postdoctoral Research Associate Carnegie Institution of Washington Geophysical Laboratory 5251 Broad Branch Rd. NW Washington, DC 20015 PH: 202 478 7970 FAX: 202 478 8901 - I urge you to show your support to American servicemen and servicewomen currently serving in harm's way by donating items they personally request at: http://www.anysoldier.com (This is not an endorsement by the Geophysical Laboratory or the Carnegie Institution.) __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Google Maps
WOW! Sterling, no comparision. Terraserver wins by a mile Jerry - Original Message - From: Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@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 BW 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=14T=1lat=35.0281lon=-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 Washington, DC 20015 PH: 202 478 7970 FAX: 202 478 8901 - I urge you to show your support to American servicemen and servicewomen currently serving in harm's way by donating items they personally request at: http://www.anysoldier.com (This is not an endorsement by the Geophysical Laboratory or the Carnegie Institution.) _ __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Google Maps
Exist smth for freeonline with a similar resolution like the terraserver (gosh, I found my sister's car in Hupetown, Washington) for the whole world too? Martin - Original Message - From: Marc Fries [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 7:20 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Google Maps Oh, for Christ's sake, folks! Y'all are looking at this whole Google Maps thing the wrong way. Try this: ---===it's FREE===--- meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
RE: [meteorite-list] Google Maps
Very good. If you type in 'AZ 86047' Then you can find 'meteor crater' (you need to search around a bit). Not bad, shame the resolution isn't great. But could maybe be a handy tool to find other impact structures... Mark -Original Message- From: Marc Fries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 4:50 AM To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Google Maps 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 Washington, DC 20015 PH: 202 478 7970 FAX: 202 478 8901 - I urge you to show your support to American servicemen and servicewomen currently serving in harm's way by donating items they personally request at: http://www.anysoldier.com (This is not an endorsement by the Geophysical Laboratory or the Carnegie Institution.) __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
[meteorite-list] Google Maps
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 Washington, DC 20015 PH: 202 478 7970 FAX: 202 478 8901 - I urge you to show your support to American servicemen and servicewomen currently serving in harm's way by donating items they personally request at: http://www.anysoldier.com (This is not an endorsement by the Geophysical Laboratory or the Carnegie Institution.) __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Google Maps
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 23:49:51 -0400 (EDT), Marc Fries [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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! It's pretty cool, but it has a conciderably lower resolution than some other map sites I've ran across. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Google Maps
I'd like to see a global map database of strewnfields. Bill -- Original message -- From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 23:49:51 -0400 (EDT), Marc Fries [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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! It's pretty cool, but it has a conciderably lower resolution than some other map sites I've ran across. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Google Maps
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 23:49:51 -0400 (EDT), Marc Fries [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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! I don't know how good the resolution for Google maps vs. other maps is for other areas, but for the one with which I'm most familiar-- around my home-- Google's just sucks. A couple of years back I played around with another mapping site, and would tell the name here if I could remember it. Anyway, this is the best resolution of the area around my home that Google offered. The red dot is the approx. location of my house-- the red square outlines the approx. area shown in the other map. http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/googlemap.jpg In this, the non-Google map, inside the red circle IS my house. You can even make out a 10 foot x 10 foot tool shed in the lower right-hand corner. http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/othermap.jpg I also, at the time, grabbed a few dozen of the 800x600 highest-zoom chunks from that site and stitched them together into one large map (I wanted to expand it even more, especially around the top and bottom, but never got around to it) http://webpages.charter.net/garrison6328/homemap.jpg __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
Re: [meteorite-list] Google Maps
http://www/lostoutdoors.com maybe? That's what I use for plotting possible strewn fields. The aerial images are from airplanes, not satellites, and are very high resolution. Coverage is limited to the U.S., though. Chris * Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com - Original Message - From: Darren Garrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 11:32 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Google Maps I don't know how good the resolution for Google maps vs. other maps is for other areas, but for the one with which I'm most familiar-- around my home-- Google's just sucks. A couple of years back I played around with another mapping site, and would tell the name here if I could remember it. __ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
