Google's satellite maps captures glider on tow!

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=33.84...7596&t=k&hl=en

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

Looks like Hobbs was shot during a contest.

-Tom

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

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=33.84...2&spn=0.007435,
0.007596&t=k&hl=en

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=33.84...2&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=33.84...007435,0.00759
6&t=k&hl=en

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Hoult | 174.8263E | /\ here. | ----------O----------

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=33.84...2&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=33.84...007435,0.00759
6&t=k&hl=en

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

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.80...543991089&spn=
0.011951923370361328,0.012853145599365234&t=k&hl=e n


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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Hoult | 174.8263E | /\ here. | ----------O----------

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=33.84...2&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

Rregards
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(yes I found it)
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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=33.84...7596&t=k&hl=en