google sat maps - area 51

[bouche]

When paisley first posted about google satellite maps, one of the first things I thought of was "could you find Area 51 on this thing?"

I tried for a bit and then got distracted. Sure enough, someone else actually thought the same thing and pulled it off.

Area 51 - google reveals...

[CyberHippie]

That's awesome! Thanks!

[bONES]

I have no idea what these buildings are, but I have the horrible feeling that one of them is a Baby Gap.

haha

[Del]

area 51 is some secret government place that's heavily guarded so that no one can get in. If you even try to get in there, they'll kill you.It's where the fake moonlanding took place.

Hilarious...

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geez if you're curious about where stuff is or maps or anything, all you have to do is ask.

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[bouche]

AD.... will you release some top secret sat stuff for us?

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Probably not, no.

But then again those pics of Area 51 are not really top secret...

I have some top secret pictures of my bum I can host for people if you want...

I have some pretty detailed nuclear power plant data from Washington state though... hehehe.

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[Mr. Photogeek]

Its funny...this reminds me of a talk I attended at the University of Waterloo...a geography professor (Ellsworth LeDrew), who studies coral reefs (much of it via satallite images) was planning, along with many other prof's and various University's and a few big business's, on launching a satallite that could zoom in and photograph a very small area (1 metre square is the figure I seem to remember), but first needed permission by the American government to launch it...they did not grant permission and the project was scrapped...not sure if it ever got off the ground (no pun intended) as this was several years ago...

mike

[paisley]

don't forget about Google Sightseeing

collecting the best shots from space

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Its funny...this reminds me of a talk I attended at the University of Waterloo...a geography professor (Ellsworth LeDrew), who studies coral reefs (much of it via satallite images) was planning, along with many other prof's and various University's and a few big business's, on launching a satallite that could zoom in and photograph a very small area (1 metre square is the figure I seem to remember), but first needed permission by the American government to launch it...they did not grant permission and the project was scrapped...not sure if it ever got off the ground (no pun intended) as this was several years ago...

mike

The highest-resolution commercial imagery available right now is from QuickBird, with a 20 centimetre pixel size on the ground.

There are lots of regulatory bodies to go through for these satellites, you are right about that. I have heard that story about the high-res Canadian sat that no-one will launch too.

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