Gary Emerson
September 14th 07, 12:23 PM
I looked at a number of the images in a very minor attempt to help
search for Fosset.
We all know this scenario may come again one day so I'll offer a couple
of my thoughts on how to possibly make this more useful in the future.
I want to commend the fine folks who helped make this remote search a
reality with such very little time. A very impressive task in itself.
1. Sure would be nice if the new .kml file could be overlayed with a
single watermark or other feature. That way a person searching could go
to a set of coordinates. If you see the big red star, blue X, whatever,
then you can verify that you're actually working with the "current" data.
2. Automatic settings. I didn't turn off terrain on the first few
pictures and that really made a big difference. It would be nice if
there was a way to force the google earth settings somehow.
3. Probably like others, I eventually left the single coordinate search
and started scrolling. I noticed that I like best to be slowly
scrolling North to South or South to North. Vertical strips in this
fashion would allow for more time to be spend searching vs. going back
and getting the next coordinates.
4. Finally, it would be great if google earth could monitor the
"searched area" that a person viewed and allow that to be sent back to
HQ via email, etc.
None of these are small tasks and I'll bet there are other good or
better ideas as well.
Gary
search for Fosset.
We all know this scenario may come again one day so I'll offer a couple
of my thoughts on how to possibly make this more useful in the future.
I want to commend the fine folks who helped make this remote search a
reality with such very little time. A very impressive task in itself.
1. Sure would be nice if the new .kml file could be overlayed with a
single watermark or other feature. That way a person searching could go
to a set of coordinates. If you see the big red star, blue X, whatever,
then you can verify that you're actually working with the "current" data.
2. Automatic settings. I didn't turn off terrain on the first few
pictures and that really made a big difference. It would be nice if
there was a way to force the google earth settings somehow.
3. Probably like others, I eventually left the single coordinate search
and started scrolling. I noticed that I like best to be slowly
scrolling North to South or South to North. Vertical strips in this
fashion would allow for more time to be spend searching vs. going back
and getting the next coordinates.
4. Finally, it would be great if google earth could monitor the
"searched area" that a person viewed and allow that to be sent back to
HQ via email, etc.
None of these are small tasks and I'll bet there are other good or
better ideas as well.
Gary