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- Original Message - From: David Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] About the only area in the South Island with good detail is around an Air Force base (gee I wonder why). hehe... From Norway, they've included half of Oslo with surrounding forest areas, the F-16 airbase, and two oil refinery locations on the west coast. From Iceland, they've included two areas, the Keflavik airport area (air base), and some apparently uninhabited area north of Reykjavik. Apparently we're not strategically important enough. :-) Jostein
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In a message dated 1/27/2006 11:37:30 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Jan 28, 2006, at 1:36 AM, William Robb wrote: The imaging of my neck of the woods still shows my house with a cottage roof. I took that roof off nearly 3 years ago. The images of my city are so low-res I couldn't distinguish houses. About the only area in the South Island with good detail is around an Air Force base (gee I wonder why). - Dave Be cool if it was live feed. I suppose it will be someday, big brother, and all that. Marnie aka Doe So maybe it's a good thing it's not.
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On Jan 29, 2006, at 3:46 AM, Jostein wrote: Apparently we're not strategically important enough. :-) I guess they didn't buy their imagery from Russia. A number of years ago there was a rumour that my city was on their list of targets because the USAF have a presence at our airport for their Antarctic programme. We also used to have an NZ Air Force base in this city but it was closed down a few years ago. It still sees use for the occasional air show, parachutists and a little motor racing. - Dave
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- Original Message - From: Rob Studdert [EMAIL PROTECTED] I doubt it's your network, if it has network problems then it won't be able to log on, my bets are on a graphics driver incompatibility. Try starting it from the start menu using the DirectX start icon. If it still doesn't open successfully then change your screen colour depth, the aim is to get the application to open and remain open so that you can get into the options tab and optimise the settings to suite the particular machine. It's worth the effort. I think Mike is right about the network being the obstacle. I just ran a packet capture, and found that the app use port 1097 and 1098 for authentication towards the Google server. It needs to log on to fetch map graphics. Corporate/university firewall usually blocks all traffic on high ports (1024), so that could very well explain why the app stalls in startup. Jostein
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Type in 'se10 0ef' and it'll zoom to my street. Quite hi-res for most of London. If you zoom closer you can see my house on the north-east part of the street - it's has a white blob on top, which is the skylight. If you squint you can see me sunbathing naked on the landing. I'll wave... Google must have a really good camera. Have you noticed that it's daytime throughout the world! -- Cheers, Bob -Original Message- From: Cotty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 January 2006 07:44 To: pentax list Subject: Re: Google Earth photo links Excellent. Just tried it on a Powermac dual 1 Ghz with 1 GB RAM and it ran very well. I'd heard about it before but never seen it. Our little corner of Oxfordshire is just a green blobby mass, so maybe we'll get hi- res when Wills is king Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
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From: Jostein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/01/27 Fri AM 08:09:13 GMT To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: Re: Google Earth photo links - Original Message - From: Rob Studdert [EMAIL PROTECTED] I doubt it's your network, if it has network problems then it won't be able to log on, my bets are on a graphics driver incompatibility. Try starting it from the start menu using the DirectX start icon. If it still doesn't open successfully then change your screen colour depth, the aim is to get the application to open and remain open so that you can get into the options tab and optimise the settings to suite the particular machine. It's worth the effort. I think Mike is right about the network being the obstacle. I just ran a packet capture, and found that the app use port 1097 and 1098 for authentication towards the Google server. It needs to log on to fetch map graphics. Corporate/university firewall usually blocks all traffic on high ports (1024), so that could very well explain why the app stalls in startup. Seems to be so 8-( Graphics card is compatible. I'm quite suprised the app is not available for Win9X, with so many existing users. Ho hum. Thanks for your help, Rob and Jostein. mike - Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
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- Original Message - From: Cotty Subject: Re: Google Earth photo links Excellent. Just tried it on a Powermac dual 1 Ghz with 1 GB RAM and it ran very well. I'd heard about it before but never seen it. Our little corner of Oxfordshire is just a green blobby mass, so maybe we'll get hi- res when Wills is king The imaging of my neck of the woods still shows my house with a cottage roof. I took that roof off nearly 3 years ago. William Robb
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From: William Robb [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/01/27 Fri PM 12:36:15 GMT To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: Google Earth photo links - Original Message - From: Cotty Subject: Re: Google Earth photo links Excellent. Just tried it on a Powermac dual 1 Ghz with 1 GB RAM and it ran very well. I'd heard about it before but never seen it. Our little corner of Oxfordshire is just a green blobby mass, so maybe we'll get hi- res when Wills is king The imaging of my neck of the woods still shows my house with a cottage roof. I took that roof off nearly 3 years ago. I think it uses 2001 images. - Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
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On 1/27/06, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wrom: OWCONEUQZAAFXISHJEXXIMQZUIVOTQNQEMSFDU The imaging of my neck of the woods still shows my house with a cottage roof. I took that roof off nearly 3 years ago. I think it uses 2001 images. It's a few more than that I think. My neck of the wood's is pretty current. Most of the building that has gone on in the last 12 months is up to date. Dave
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On 27 Jan 2006 at 12:48, mike wilson wrote: I think it uses 2001 images. The visible map is a composite of satellite images, shot on and between 2002 and 2005. There are layer options (DG Coverage) that will display and identify the actual images used in the composite however some specific areas do use private satellite data (check Cambridge, Massachusetts for instance). The apparent image of my place I dated at around 2004 as I can see my old car out the front and a neighbours car that they had since sold. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
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On 27/1/06, mike wilson, discombobulated, unleashed: I think it uses 2001 images. Oh there must be tens of thousands Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
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On Jan 28, 2006, at 1:36 AM, William Robb wrote: The imaging of my neck of the woods still shows my house with a cottage roof. I took that roof off nearly 3 years ago. The images of my city are so low-res I couldn't distinguish houses. About the only area in the South Island with good detail is around an Air Force base (gee I wonder why). - Dave
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The link works fine for me Powell (after I updated to the latest version of Google Earth). On 1/26/06, Powell Hargrave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While looking at John Coyle's images from Brisbane I thought it would be fun to see if I could find where they were taken. http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4061003 http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4061007 It only took a few minutes and from half way round the world I was able to spot almost exactly where John must have been standing when he took the photos. Google Earth has nice high res images of Brisbane and John's bridge is quite distinctive. If you have not tried Google Earth you really should give it a try. http://earth.google.com/ High speed access is likely a good idea. It is amazing what you can see in many parts on the world. You can email locations to other Google Earth users but since attachments are not allowed on the list I made a little web page with a link. http://members.shaw.ca/hargravep/test.htm When you have Google Earth click on Google Earth bridge test on this page and I hope it will take you there. For some reason on my system WinZip gets in the way some times but after clicking unzip the link works. I think it would be great if we could add a Google Earth link to some of our photos so others could see where they were taken. Unfortunately the area around my location is quite low res. Any one with suggestions of easy ways to add Google Earth .kmz link files to photos? Let me know if the link works for you. Powell
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Hey my street has gone higher res! Now I can see the buildings on my property. Added a link on the test page. http://members.shaw.ca/hargravep/test.htm The red roof is my house. Powell While looking at John Coyle's images from Brisbane I thought it would be fun to see if I could find where they were taken. http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4061003 http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4061007 It only took a few minutes and from half way round the world I was able to spot almost exactly where John must have been standing when he took the photos. Google Earth has nice high res images of Brisbane and John's bridge is quite distinctive. If you have not tried Google Earth you really should give it a try. http://earth.google.com/ High speed access is likely a good idea. It is amazing what you can see in many parts on the world. You can email locations to other Google Earth users but since attachments are not allowed on the list I made a little web page with a link. http://members.shaw.ca/hargravep/test.htm When you have Google Earth click on Google Earth bridge test on this page and I hope it will take you there. For some reason on my system WinZip gets in the way some times but after clicking unzip the link works. I think it would be great if we could add a Google Earth link to some of our photos so others could see where they were taken. Unfortunately the area around my location is quite low res. Any one with suggestions of easy ways to add Google Earth .kmz link files to photos? Let me know if the link works for you. Powell
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How fitting! :-) The hi-res pictures of Oslo is taken just when Yann Arthus-Bertrands Earth from above was exhibited outside the town hall. Jostein - Original Message - From: Powell Hargrave [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 10:58 AM Subject: Google Earth photo links While looking at John Coyle's images from Brisbane I thought it would be fun to see if I could find where they were taken. http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4061003 http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4061007 It only took a few minutes and from half way round the world I was able to spot almost exactly where John must have been standing when he took the photos. Google Earth has nice high res images of Brisbane and John's bridge is quite distinctive. If you have not tried Google Earth you really should give it a try. http://earth.google.com/ High speed access is likely a good idea. It is amazing what you can see in many parts on the world. You can email locations to other Google Earth users but since attachments are not allowed on the list I made a little web page with a link. http://members.shaw.ca/hargravep/test.htm When you have Google Earth click on Google Earth bridge test on this page and I hope it will take you there. For some reason on my system WinZip gets in the way some times but after clicking unzip the link works. I think it would be great if we could add a Google Earth link to some of our photos so others could see where they were taken. Unfortunately the area around my location is quite low res. Any one with suggestions of easy ways to add Google Earth .kmz link files to photos? Let me know if the link works for you. Powell
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From: Jostein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2006/01/26 Thu AM 11:44:23 GMT To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Subject: Re: Google Earth photo links How fitting! :-) The hi-res pictures of Oslo is taken just when Yann Arthus-Bertrands Earth from above was exhibited outside the town hall. Jostein I wanna play! Can't use GurgleEarth at home as it needs XP or 2000. At work, on 2000, it locks up the machine on the start screen after installation. Must be some interaction with the network protection/protocols. 8-((( - Original Message - From: Powell Hargrave [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 10:58 AM Subject: Google Earth photo links While looking at John Coyle's images from Brisbane I thought it would be fun to see if I could find where they were taken. http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4061003 http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4061007 It only took a few minutes and from half way round the world I was able to spot almost exactly where John must have been standing when he took the photos. Google Earth has nice high res images of Brisbane and John's bridge is quite distinctive. If you have not tried Google Earth you really should give it a try. http://earth.google.com/ High speed access is likely a good idea. It is amazing what you can see in many parts on the world. You can email locations to other Google Earth users but since attachments are not allowed on the list I made a little web page with a link. http://members.shaw.ca/hargravep/test.htm When you have Google Earth click on Google Earth bridge test on this page and I hope it will take you there. For some reason on my system WinZip gets in the way some times but after clicking unzip the link works. I think it would be great if we could add a Google Earth link to some of our photos so others could see where they were taken. Unfortunately the area around my location is quite low res. Any one with suggestions of easy ways to add Google Earth .kmz link files to photos? Let me know if the link works for you. Powell - Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
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and a link; http://www.oksne.net/temp/YAB-EarthFromAbove.zip Just took me a couple of minutes to figure out how...:-) Jostein - Original Message - From: Jostein [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 12:44 PM Subject: Re: Google Earth photo links How fitting! :-) The hi-res pictures of Oslo is taken just when Yann Arthus-Bertrands Earth from above was exhibited outside the town hall. Jostein - Original Message - From: Powell Hargrave [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 10:58 AM Subject: Google Earth photo links While looking at John Coyle's images from Brisbane I thought it would be fun to see if I could find where they were taken. http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4061003 http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=4061007 It only took a few minutes and from half way round the world I was able to spot almost exactly where John must have been standing when he took the photos. Google Earth has nice high res images of Brisbane and John's bridge is quite distinctive. If you have not tried Google Earth you really should give it a try. http://earth.google.com/ High speed access is likely a good idea. It is amazing what you can see in many parts on the world. You can email locations to other Google Earth users but since attachments are not allowed on the list I made a little web page with a link. http://members.shaw.ca/hargravep/test.htm When you have Google Earth click on Google Earth bridge test on this page and I hope it will take you there. For some reason on my system WinZip gets in the way some times but after clicking unzip the link works. I think it would be great if we could add a Google Earth link to some of our photos so others could see where they were taken. Unfortunately the area around my location is quite low res. Any one with suggestions of easy ways to add Google Earth .kmz link files to photos? Let me know if the link works for you. Powell
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On 1/26/06, Powell Hargrave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any one with suggestions of easy ways to add Google Earth .kmz link files to photos? Try this QTVR pano with hotspot link (~630k) http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/Pano%20Head%20Test_003.mov http://tinyurl.com/a3zm6 Dave
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- Original Message - From: mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wanna play! One thing you can do is to download an application called World Wind from NASA. It's a lot slower than the Google thing, but it's based on the same set of satellite photos. Jostein
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Jostein wrote: - Original Message - From: mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wanna play! One thing you can do is to download an application called World Wind from NASA. It's a lot slower than the Google thing, but it's based on the same set of satellite photos. Jostein Thanks. I'll see if I can get that to work. m
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Jostein wrote: - Original Message - From: mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wanna play! One thing you can do is to download an application called World Wind from NASA. It's a lot slower than the Google thing, but it's based on the same set of satellite photos. Jostein 2000 or XP, 1gHz or higher. Plus 2Gb of disk space. 8-(((
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Darn. Sorry about that. J. - Original Message - From: mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 9:26 PM Subject: Re: Google Earth photo links Jostein wrote: - Original Message - From: mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wanna play! One thing you can do is to download an application called World Wind from NASA. It's a lot slower than the Google thing, but it's based on the same set of satellite photos. Jostein 2000 or XP, 1gHz or higher. Plus 2Gb of disk space. 8-(((
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Jostein wrote: Darn. Sorry about that. J. I deserve it for being a Luddite. But at least I can't get mice! - Original Message - From: mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 9:26 PM Subject: Re: Google Earth photo links Jostein wrote: - Original Message - From: mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wanna play! One thing you can do is to download an application called World Wind from NASA. It's a lot slower than the Google thing, but it's based on the same set of satellite photos. Jostein 2000 or XP, 1gHz or higher. Plus 2Gb of disk space. 8-(((
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On 1/26/06, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I deserve it for being a Luddite.snip You say that as if it's a ~bad~ thing... vbg -frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
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frank theriault wrote: On 1/26/06, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I deserve it for being a Luddite.snip You say that as if it's a ~bad~ thing... vbg -frank That's the problem with the written word. You can't see the smile on my face.
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On 1/26/06, mike wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's the problem with the written word. You can't see the smile on my face. I was just pulling yer leg. You didn't need a smiley for me to know you were smiling... g -frank -- Sharpness is a bourgeois concept. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
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On 26 Jan 2006 at 20:26, mike wilson wrote: 2000 or XP, 1gHz or higher. Plus 2Gb of disk space. 8-((( I've run it successfully (albeit slowly) on a P300 under 2000 with 128MB of RAM and stuff all disk space, the 2GB requirement is mainly cache space, if you limit or manage the cache you'll get away with no where near that amount. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
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On 26 Jan 2006 at 11:53, mike wilson wrote: I wanna play! Can't use GurgleEarth at home as it needs XP or 2000. At work, on 2000, it locks up the machine on the start screen after installation. Must be some interaction with the network protection/protocols. I doubt it's your network, if it has network problems then it won't be able to log on, my bets are on a graphics driver incompatibility. Try starting it from the start menu using the DirectX start icon. If it still doesn't open successfully then change your screen colour depth, the aim is to get the application to open and remain open so that you can get into the options tab and optimise the settings to suite the particular machine. It's worth the effort. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
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Rob Studdert wrote: On 26 Jan 2006 at 20:26, mike wilson wrote: 2000 or XP, 1gHz or higher. Plus 2Gb of disk space. 8-((( I've run it successfully (albeit slowly) on a P300 under 2000 with 128MB of RAM and stuff all disk space, the 2GB requirement is mainly cache space, if you limit or manage the cache you'll get away with no where near that amount. I don't have the right OS at home and there seems to be a network conflict at work. I'm out.
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Rob Studdert wrote: On 26 Jan 2006 at 11:53, mike wilson wrote: I wanna play! Can't use GurgleEarth at home as it needs XP or 2000. At work, on 2000, it locks up the machine on the start screen after installation. Must be some interaction with the network protection/protocols. I doubt it's your network, if it has network problems then it won't be able to log on, my bets are on a graphics driver incompatibility. Try starting it from the start menu using the DirectX start icon. If it still doesn't open successfully then change your screen colour depth, the aim is to get the application to open and remain open so that you can get into the options tab and optimise the settings to suite the particular machine. It's worth the effort. Thanks. I'll give that a whirl in the short time I have left with access to the HDD of my machine.
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Excellent. Just tried it on a Powermac dual 1 Ghz with 1 GB RAM and it ran very well. I'd heard about it before but never seen it. Our little corner of Oxfordshire is just a green blobby mass, so maybe we'll get hi- res when Wills is king Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _
