New RAS game: Name that Googleport and add your own

[Soar Stanton MN]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Maricopa,AZ&ll=33.084769,-112.161806&spn=0.007403,0.009903&t=k&hl=en

[Ken Kochanski (KK)]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=hilltown,pa&ll=40.331862,-75.246434&spn=0.005686,0.007703&t=k&hl=en

[[email protected]]

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.889805,-117.247639&spn=0.008047,0.010493&t=k&hl=en

Soar Stanton MN wrote:
>
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Maricopa,AZ&ll=33.084769,-112.161806&spn=0.007403,0.009903&t=k&hl=en

[Shawn]

wrote:
> http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.889805,-117.247639&spn=0.008047,0.010493&t=k&hl=en
>
> Soar Stanton MN wrote:
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Maricopa,AZ&ll=33.084769,-112.161806&spn=0.007403,0.009903&t=k&hl=en
>
These two are easy, and I've only flown at one of them (the one that's
always opened)!

Here's where I took my first glider ride (in '78). Sure has changed
since then:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=denver,co&ll=38.972701,-104.686135&spn=0.005912,0.007596&t=k&hl=en

It looks more like this now:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=denver,co&ll=39.223595,-104.638767&spn=0.047293,0.060768&t=k&hl=en

Which is where I did my check ride, almost 16 years later.

Shawn

[Soar Stanton MN]

A Few More:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.118296,-92.999740&spn=0.007403,0.009238&t=k&hl=en

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.735838,-117.021153&spn=0.007403,0.009238&t=k&hl=en

[ttaylor at cc.usu.edu]

First one I flew from in 1991 -1993 ;-), second one was home of our
Blanik for 25 years.

Try:

This one will bring back memories:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.118296,-92.999740&spn=0.007403,0.009238&t=k&hl=en

My new home, one of the best sites in the world

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.118296,-92.999740&spn=0.007403,0.009238&t=k&hl=en

[ttaylor at cc.usu.edu]

oops, bad links, try:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=&ll=38.328187,-122.018881&spn=0.011888,0.016716&t=k&hl=en

and

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=&ll=41.793022,-111.850433&spn=0.095100,0.133724&t=k&hl=en

[Bill Daniels]

Last year, more OLC kilometers were flown by the club at this site than any
other in the world.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.118296,-92.999740&spn=0.007403,0.009238&t=k&hl=en

I started my Diamond distance from this site.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.118296,-92.999740&spn=0.007403,0.009238&t=k&hl=en

I fly here now.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.118296,-92.999740&spn=0.007403,0.009238&t=k&hl=en

[Shawn]

Bill Daniels wrote:
> Last year, more OLC kilometers were flown by the club at this site than any
> other in the world.
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.118296,-92.999740&spn=0.007403,0.009238&t=k&hl=en
>
> I started my Diamond distance from this site.
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.118296,-92.999740&spn=0.007403,0.009238&t=k&hl=en
>
> I fly here now.
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.118296,-92.999740&spn=0.007403,0.009238&t=k&hl=en
>
I thought you were flying from here now:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.118296,-104.999740&ll=40.038815,-105.229937&spn=0.005912,0.007596&t=k&hl=en

Bill, check your links. They're all the same site (Albert Lea?).

Shawn

[Marc Ramsey]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=truckee,ca&ll=39.323899,-120.132848&spn=0.008487,0.007617&t=k&hl=en

[John Leibacher]

I have added links to the Google satellite maps in the 'Worldwide Soaring
Turnpoint Exchange" [ http://soaring.aerobatics.ws ], as well as Google's
road maps, Rand McNally's road maps and - most useful of all for the
landoutacholics - driving instructions from the home 'drom to the turnpoints
and other waypoints for all of the US sites [I'll install a little form for
your crew to enter your lat/lon if you don't make it to an airport,
"shortly"]. The links are G and g for the Google maps and satellite images,
R and r for the Rand McNally maps and driving.

While the Google pics can be very nice, they are a bit spotty and for
example TSA is not very good at all, while just a couple of miles north the
resolution improves substantially. The Terraserver maps, which have been
linked to for years, show a glider on the runway at TSA, so one has to click
and choose. I recently added the Onearth satellite images, link code "O",
which has pretty good - but not as good as the best of the Google's - images
of the whole world.

This was done in a rush, so the column headers don't quite line up any more
in the contol point listings...

John Leibacher '2E'

[Andrew Warbrick]

Some similar UK links

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=528379&Y=255
942&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=&pc=&
zm=0&scale=25000&downright.x=63&downright.y=5

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=527500&Y=282
500&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=&pc=&
zm=0&scale=50000&multimap.x=280&multimap.y=111

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=465000&Y=282
500&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=&pc=&
zm=0&scale=50000&multimap.x=360&multimap.y=177

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=480000&Y=447
500&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=&pc=&
zm=0&scale=50000&multimap.x=278&multimap.y=117

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=467684&Y=143
473&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=&pc=&
zm=0&scale=50000&multimap.x=360&multimap.y=145

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=317342&Y=232
158&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=freeg
az&pc=&zm=0&scale=10000&out.x=6&out.y=9

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=452500&Y=482
500&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=&pc=&
zm=0&scale=50000&multimap.x=278&multimap.y=267

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=340316&Y=291
263&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=&pc=&
zm=0&scale=10000&out.x=4&out.y=11

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=500526&Y=219
736&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=&pc=&
zm=0&scale=10000&out.x=6&out.y=11

http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=380685&Y=201
960&width=700&height=410&gride=380462.801967984&gridn=200310.89006
6259&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=freegaz&pc=&zm=0&scale=10000&out.x=8&ou
t.y=11

[Mitch]

More OLC Kilometers flown here last year than any place in the U.S.
Going to be the same thing this year, too, except this year, we take
the WORLD.


http://maps.google.com/maps?q=moriarty,nm&ll=34.982443,-106.004162&spn=0.029783,0.041628&t=k&hl=en

[JC]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:25:38 -0600, Shawn
<sdotcurry@bresnananotherdotnet> wrote:

>Bill Daniels wrote:
>> Last year, more OLC kilometers were flown by the club at this site than any
>> other in the world.
>>
>> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.118296,-92.999740&spn=0.007403,0.009238&t=k&hl=en
>>
>> I started my Diamond distance from this site.
>>
>> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.118296,-92.999740&spn=0.007403,0.009238&t=k&hl=en
>>
>> I fly here now.
>>
>> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=45.118296,-92.999740&spn=0.007403,0.009238&t=k&hl=en
>>
>I thought you were flying from here now:
>
>http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.118296,-104.999740&ll=40.038815,-105.229937&spn=0.005912,0.007596&t=k&hl=en
>
>Bill, check your links. They're all the same site (Albert Lea?).
Nope, that is Benson Airport. Just north of White Bear Lake MN

>
>Shawn

[For Example John Smith]

Here you go--not very good resolution, but you can see the line of hangars.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=30.196472,-95.965188&spn=0.041628,0.049868&t=k&hl=en
Somebody turn on the sprinklers, it's lookin' kinda brown....

"Soar Stanton MN" > wrote in message
...
>
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Maricopa,AZ&ll=33.084769,-112.161806&spn=0.007403,0.009903&t=k&hl=en
>
>

[Harbin]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.426,-71.794&ll=40.711663,-74.012908&spn=0.003712,0.005525&t=k&hl=en

[Doug Snyder]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=&ll=38.328187,-122.018881&spn=0.011888,0.016716&t=k&hl=en

Resolution is pretty lousy. It's a lot greener here in SC than the
sites out west.



Soar Stanton MN wrote:
>
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Maricopa,AZ&ll=33.084769,-112.161806&spn=0.007403,0.009903&t=k&hl=en

[Doug Snyder]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Spartanburg,SC&ll=34.925108,-81.965475&spn=0.049009,0.066519&t=k&hl=en

Ok, I screwed that up !

Try this one.

[Bruce Hoult]

In article . com>,
"Doug Snyder" > wrote:

> http://maps.google.com/maps?q=&ll=38.328187,-122.018881&spn=0.011888,0.016716&
> t=k&hl=en
>
> Resolution is pretty lousy. It's a lot greener here in SC than the
> sites out west.

Gosh one half of that is crap resolution, the other half is great.

I don't know what the resolution of these pics are, but they're showing
up 1m chord glider wings pretty well.

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

[5Z]

I suspect the google maps are using the same database as the keyhole
software - which in itself is pretty cool and they offer a free 7 day
trial. The issue is that most of the US is low resolution and only
major "metro" areas are very high resolution.

http://www.keyhole.com/?promo=gdl-en

-Tom

[[email protected]]

Whats the status of the old Vacaville gliderport? I learned to fly
gliders there back in the mid 70's. Looks kinda deserted now...

66

[[email protected]]

Hey, where's my trailer hanger?


Ken Kochanski (KK) wrote:
>
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=hilltown,pa&ll=40.331862,-75.246434&spn=0.005686,0.007703&t=k&hl=en

[Marc Ramsey]

wrote:
> Whats the status of the old Vacaville gliderport? I learned to fly
> gliders there back in the mid 70's. Looks kinda deserted now...

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.154758,-122.117929&spn=0.062914,0.060940&t=k&hl=en

Resolution not so great, but Williams Soaring Center (run by Rex and
Noelle Mayes) is adjacent to the rectangular dirt field in upper left
quadrant of the image. They were forced out of Lagoon Valley a decade
or so ago, due to the "imminent" start of construction on an office park
(which never happened). They then moved 10 miles north on I80 to the
former Vaca-Dixon airport, but were chased out within a year due to
noise complaints. Next they bought Williams Airport (about 45 miles
north of Sacramento on I5), and have been there since. Now, if the
satellite photo was a bit more recent, it would show housing
developments in the large green fields to the west and southwest of the
airport, another move is likely within a year or two...

http://williamssoaring.com/

Marc

[For Example John Smith]

World Trade Center?
"Harbin" > wrote in message
...
>
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.426,-71.794&ll=40.711663,-74.012908&spn=0.003712,0.005525&t=k&hl=en
>
>

[[email protected]]

Interesting. I used to fly Citabrias out of Vaca-Dixon; I mainly
remember a short strip with I-80 at one end (short final over a semi is
fun!) and trees/powerlines at the other. Must have been sporting
towing gliders out of there!

66

[Marc Ramsey]

wrote:
> Interesting. I used to fly Citabrias out of Vaca-Dixon; I mainly
> remember a short strip with I-80 at one end (short final over a semi is
> fun!) and trees/powerlines at the other. Must have been sporting
> towing gliders out of there!

They did manage to get the power lines moved underground for a 100 foot
stretch at the end of the runway, but it was still an "exciting" place
to fly...

[Andy Blackburn]

At 07:00 12 April 2005, John Leibacher wrote:
>I have added links to the Google satellite maps in
>the 'Worldwide Soaring
>Turnpoint Exchange' [ http://soaring.aerobatics.ws
>], as well as Google's
>road maps, Rand McNally's road maps and - most useful
>of all for the
>landoutacholics - driving instructions from the home
>'drom to the turnpoints
>and other waypoints for all of the US sites [I'll install
>a little form for
>your crew to enter your lat/lon if you don't make it
>to an airport,
>'shortly']. The links are G and g for the Google maps
>and satellite images,
>R and r for the Rand McNally maps and driving.
>

VERY cool - though I can't find the 'D' links for driving
directions.

Would be great to have this available at the retrieve
office at every contest... well at least at every contest
with broadband on the airport... oh, never mind.

Nice job John.

9B

[Eric Greenwell]

Andy Blackburn wrote:

>
> VERY cool - though I can't find the 'D' links for driving
> directions.
>
> Would be great to have this available at the retrieve
> office at every contest... well at least at every contest
> with broadband on the airport... oh, never mind.

I can't find any of them. Can you give me directions or a direct link?


--
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Eric Greenwell
Washington State
USA

[Andy Blackburn]

At 14:30 15 April 2005, Eric Greenwell wrote:
>
>I can't find any of them. Can you give me directions
>or a direct link?

http://soaring.xinqu.net/TP/Ephrata/control_points.html

For you - personalized service - Ephrata...remember
to scroll down.

It's in the actual control points file/link.

9B