pictures from space

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Or if you want something a little closer go to and enter an address. After the map comes up select the "AERIAL PHOTO" tab just above the map.

Best Regards, Keith Marshall snipped-for-privacy@progressivelogic.com

"I'm not grown up enough to be so old!"

Mapquest has aerial views of many (not all) areas synchronized with their maps. If there is an aerial view available, there'll be a tab over the map that will switch to the photo.

The photos come from here:

coverage, but you have to pay to get a photo without their log arrayed across it.

Ned Simmons

Do you mean like these?

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you can pick the satellite you use from 100s listed. Get images on co-ordinate locations. You have to pick the time though I tried to get an image of the USA here in Australia. When I tried the first time it was night over there so I got the night images!

Glenn

Actually quite a lot of metal content here as Aluminium is the third most common element on Earth after oxygen and silicon.

And the earth is what you are looking at!

Errol Groff

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Not to mention the abundancy of iron giving soil a nice brown tone to it, see also: Mars :)

Tim

-- In the immortal words of Ned Flanders: "No foot longs!" Website @

Very good but How in the world do I know which of those "hundreds" has the best resolution and covers the area in an appropiate time frame? ie. daylight. A good ref. bookmarked Thanks. ...lew...

Yes Larry. I've looked at terraserver but without an address, as in the mountins west of Los Almos ( Bandelier National Monument ) how to give a location? There dosent appear to be a method of using Lat and Lon to request a pix. ? ...lew...

Sure ya can!

Yes, thanks to 9/11, theyn took that capability out of the system. There is still a very compicated way of doing it. You get a picture of some area you know, and then hand-edit the URL string, that has the Lat and Long. numbers in it, in a strange format. If you look at a couple of URLs that pulled up pictures, it should be fairly obvious how it works. I did this because I was DAMN MAD at them for breaking a very useful function. (I have friends whose property has no street address, in fact no street whatsoever, and I was trying to get a good photo for them.)

Jon

city name in the "Feature Name" field and state and you should get Lat/Long

Lane

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:27:27 -0700, "Lane" pixelated:

Cool. Now who has those two features linked on one site?

Has anyone done any comparison of the ultimate zoomed-in resolution vs this and mapquest? I tried it and could see little difference. Engineman1