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On/off Topic Google Earth and Sugo

Dave Henri

On/off Topic Google Earth and Sugo

by Dave Henri » Tue, 16 Aug 2005 22:51:28

  I used Google Earth to locate my house in Spokane Washington.  Quite fun.  
Then I tried to find the Race Track at Sugo Japan.  But instead of neat
clean photos, all I got of that area was flight sim type pixels.  No actual
sattelite photos to zoom in on.  
  Anyone know if that is just because they don't have all the world photo'd
yet?

dave henrie

Stephen F

On/off Topic Google Earth and Sugo

by Stephen F » Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:11:12


Yep.  Simply the available data for a given area.  There are lots of
high-res tracks in Google Earth's data, however.  A search will find many of
them.  For a starter, just search on "Imola, Italy".  The possibilities are
endless.

Remco Moed

On/off Topic Google Earth and Sugo

by Remco Moed » Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:44:25

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:11:12 +0200, "Stephen F."




>>  I used Google Earth to locate my house in Spokane Washington.  Quite fun.
>> Then I tried to find the Race Track at Sugo Japan.  But instead of neat
>> clean photos, all I got of that area was flight sim type pixels.  No
>> actual
>> sattelite photos to zoom in on.
>>  Anyone know if that is just because they don't have all the world photo'd
>> yet?

>> dave henrie

>Yep.  Simply the available data for a given area.  There are lots of
>high-res tracks in Google Earth's data, however.  A search will find many of
>them.  For a starter, just search on "Imola, Italy".  The possibilities are
>endless.

Apparantly there was a race going one when they snapped Zandvoort...

Cheers!

Remco

jason moye

On/off Topic Google Earth and Sugo

by jason moye » Wed, 17 Aug 2005 23:20:02

Surprisingly, it appears the long beach scans were taken during the
champcar race.  I can even see a car on shoreline drive, as well as
tents/cars/people in the pits. :D

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