Google's satellite maps captures glider on tow!

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While browsing Google's new satellite maps, I see one of the shots
captured a tow plane taking a glider up towards Lake Pleasant, AZ (Turf
Soaring area). See:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.845615,-112.287612&spn=0.007435,0.007596&t=k&hl=en

[ttaylor at cc.usu.edu]

Very cool,

The areas that have the high quality images are spectacular.

We can now make turn point books without leaving the office where the
resolution is good. Minden is a good example of the different levels
of zoom available.

It will be great when the entire planet is at the high resolution
level.

Tim

[5Z]

Looks like Hobbs was shot during a contest.

-Tom

[[email protected]]

That would be great, it would be a lot of pixels though. At 1
ft/pixel, with 30% of the earth's surface being land, gives 1.65e+015
pixels. Just the 3-byte RGB data would be about 1500 TB. It's many
times that when you add all the fancy data at multiple resolutions.

ttaylor at cc.usu.edu wrote:
> Very cool,
>
> The areas that have the high quality images are spectacular.
>
> We can now make turn point books without leaving the office where the
> resolution is good. Minden is a good example of the different
levels
> of zoom available.
>
> It will be great when the entire planet is at the high resolution
> level.
>
> Tim

[Don Johnstone]

Now that is the dogs wotsits. Where is the airfield
though?

At 18:00 08 April 2005, wrote:
>While browsing Google's new satellite maps, I see one
>of the shots
>captured a tow plane taking a glider up towards Lake
>Pleasant, AZ (Turf
>Soaring area). See:
>
>http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.845615,-112.287612&spn=0.007435,
>>0.007596&t=k&hl=en
>
>

[Bruce Hoult]

In article >,
Don Johnstone > wrote:

> At 18:00 08 April 2005, wrote:
> >While browsing Google's new satellite maps, I see one
> >of the shots
> >captured a tow plane taking a glider up towards Lake
> >Pleasant, AZ (Turf
> >Soaring area). See:
> >
> >http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.845615,-112.287612&spn=0.007435,
> >>0.007596&t=k&hl=en
>
> Now that is the dogs wotsits. Where is the airfield
> though?

Just south a bit and a little east:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.845615,-112.287612&spn=0.007435,0.00759
6&t=k&hl=en

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Bruce | 41.1670S | \ spoken | -+-
Hoult | 174.8263E | /\ here. | ----------O----------

[Bruce Hoult]

In article >,
Bruce Hoult > wrote:

> In article >,
> Don Johnstone > wrote:
>
> > At 18:00 08 April 2005, wrote:
> > >While browsing Google's new satellite maps, I see one
> > >of the shots
> > >captured a tow plane taking a glider up towards Lake
> > >Pleasant, AZ (Turf
> > >Soaring area). See:
> > >
> > >http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.845615,-112.287612&spn=0.007435,
> > >>0.007596&t=k&hl=en
> >
> > Now that is the dogs wotsits. Where is the airfield
> > though?
>
> Just south a bit and a little east:
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.845615,-112.287612&spn=0.007435,0.00759
> 6&t=k&hl=en

Whoops .. that's the original URL :-(

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.80074739456177,-112.24909543991089&spn=
0.011951923370361328,0.012853145599365234&t=k&hl=en


To get there by panning, go east until the damn waqll is filling your
screen, then south and you'll see a canal. Follow the canal until the
second bridge over it. The airfield is lust east of the canal.

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[Bruce Hoult]

> > > >http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.845615,-112.287612&spn=0.007435,
> > > >>0.007596&t=k&hl=en
>
> To get there by panning, go east until the damn waqll is filling your
> screen, then south and you'll see a canal. Follow the canal until the
> second bridge over it. The airfield is lust east of the canal.

Eeek ... so much for proofreading and spelling :-(


Another method: zoom out three levels from the pic given by the original
URL and the airfield is in bottom right corner.

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Bruce Hoult napisa³(a):
> Another method: zoom out three levels from the pic given by the original
> URL and the airfield is in bottom right corner.

Another method: use www.tinyurl.com :) http://tinyurl.com/3pqbu

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(yes I found it)
BT

> wrote in message
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> While browsing Google's new satellite maps, I see one of the shots
> captured a tow plane taking a glider up towards Lake Pleasant, AZ (Turf
> Soaring area). See:
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.845615,-112.287612&spn=0.007435,0.007596&t=k&hl=en
>