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On/off Topic Google Earth and Sugo

4 posts by 4 people · 15 Aug 2005 13:51 UTC - 16 Aug 2005 14:20 UTC

Dave Henrie 15 Aug 2005 13:51 UTC#19162
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
"Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
Quoted text (9 lines)> 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.
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:11:12 +0200, "Stephen F." <[email hidden]> wrote:
Quoted text (17 lines)> >"Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:[email hidden]... >> 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
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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