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914World.com _ 914World Garage _ Holy Maps!
Posted by: brer Apr 13 2005, 10:35 PM
http://maps.google.com/maps?spn=52.119140625,76.552734375&t=k&hl=en
type in someplace, willow springs international raceway for example.
or your home address. then zoom all the way in.
Freaky.
Or Iraq.
Or LAX
Or Burning Man
Or Nurenburgring
Or Stuttgart
Its freaking cooooooooooool.
correction, its only US here.
heres the article
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,67190,00.html
Posted by: Lou W Apr 13 2005, 10:43 PM
Wow that's cool, Just checked out my house, the pictures are at least 1 year old. I wonder how often theyre updated? 
Posted by: MattR Apr 13 2005, 10:45 PM
Damn, if you could zoom in ONE more time I bet you could see my 914 on jack stands 
They are pretty recent pictures. My high school is post construction, which means its within the last 2 years.
Posted by: Lyressa Roberts Apr 13 2005, 10:47 PM
That is TOO cool!!!
Posted by: Rhodes71/914 Apr 13 2005, 10:50 PM
Very Cool!
I love maps.
Posted by: skline Apr 13 2005, 10:56 PM
Yeah, they are not that current, I typed in my address and they show the Ikea center still under construction. Its been done for about a year now. It's still pretty cool.
Posted by: GWN7 Apr 13 2005, 10:59 PM
some areas you can get closer than others....
Pic of the farm and my private lake...
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Posted by: GWN7 Apr 13 2005, 11:01 PM
oops....mostly lake in that one
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Posted by: Joseph Mills Apr 13 2005, 11:01 PM
Here's my MapQuest from last year.
Check out my yellow teener in the driveway.
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Posted by: SirAndy Apr 13 2005, 11:12 PM
now it would be really cool if you could type in "all 914s parked in driveways" and it searches and gives you maps of all 914s in the US that were parked in driveways that day ...
Andy
Posted by: Rand Apr 13 2005, 11:15 PM
Another one is http://terraserver.microsoft.com
Posted by: SirAndy Apr 13 2005, 11:19 PM
i checked all the usual AX venue places, no luck 
but look what i found at candlestick park ... any 49er fans around here ???
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Posted by: dan10101 Apr 13 2005, 11:35 PM
Dang,
All our neighbors have pools except us.... 
No new garage in that picture.
Dan
brickmaster, sheetrocker, framer, electrician, plumber...
Posted by: FriarJohn Apr 14 2005, 08:22 AM
Take a trip:
http://www.shreddies.org/gmaps/
Image are definitely over a year old. There's no garage http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3702+East+Groschell,East+Helena,+MT&ll=46.590292,-111.898842&spn=0.004849,0.007918&t=k&hl=en.
Posted by: i love porsche Apr 14 2005, 08:35 AM
you can see on the passaic river, all the crew boats! i wouldnt be suprised if this was me in high school
looks like a centipede lol
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Posted by: Qarl Apr 14 2005, 08:53 AM
type in Miles Hendrix
Posted by: skline Apr 14 2005, 09:09 AM
Did you guys check out area 51? This is just outside north of Vegas. Can anyone explain what the triangle with the circles is?
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Posted by: URY914 Apr 14 2005, 09:13 AM
There is a very big nudist resort just North of Tampa. But I couldn't see anyone playing volleyball. 
New York City is cool.
Paul
Posted by: Demick Apr 14 2005, 09:22 AM
I was looking at this a few weeks ago. Very cool. I love how you can switch back and forth between the maps and satellite images and you get the exact same view - but with the maps you get the street names.
I looked up my work, and noticed that the parking lot was empty - so I figured it must have been taken on a weekend. I guess Andy's pic of Candlestick confirmed that. Would'a been cool if GGR was having an autocross that day.
Here's my house. I didn't even know the dog park that I live next to had trails in the shape of a dog bone until I saw this picture. Ha Ha.
Demick
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Posted by: Demick Apr 14 2005, 09:27 AM
Here's our Alameda autocross site. Could almost use this to make course maps!
Demick
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Posted by: brer Apr 14 2005, 09:44 AM
Name that plane.
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Posted by: URY914 Apr 14 2005, 09:47 AM
Big Bad B-2
Posted by: skline Apr 14 2005, 09:55 AM
Hey Demmick, you have the largest yard in your neighborhood. Must be nice. Lots of storage for 914 parts and cars.
Posted by: CptTripps Apr 14 2005, 10:01 AM
When that came out a few weeks ago, that's all we did all day...Cool stuff.
Posted by: Demick Apr 14 2005, 10:32 AM
| QUOTE (skline @ Apr 14 2005, 07:55 AM) |
| Hey Demmick, you have the largest yard in your neighborhood. Must be nice. Lots of storage for 914 parts and cars. |
Hey Scott. Yes, I do have the largest lot in the neighborhood. But unfortunately there is no real way to get vehicle access to the back yard - which means no parts cars. Come to think of it, that's probably a good thing!
Demick
Posted by: slapshot914 Apr 14 2005, 11:04 AM
Yup! There's my parts car behind the house.
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Posted by: Rand Apr 14 2005, 11:34 AM
| QUOTE |
| Could almost use this to make course maps! |
http://terraserver.microsoft.com will get WAY closer than Google. I like the way Google works better, but I'm betting terraserver would get close enough to make your course map. If you use the address search method, choose the "Urban areas 2002" if available (or newest option).
Here's the Space Needle:
Posted by: MattR Apr 14 2005, 11:55 AM
No joke guys. Here it is!
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Posted by: SirAndy Apr 14 2005, 12:01 PM
still no AX in action, but we left a few tracks ...
Golden Gate Fields:
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Posted by: SirAndy Apr 14 2005, 12:02 PM
Candle Stick Park
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Posted by: SirAndy Apr 14 2005, 12:03 PM
Marina
note how old that pic is, not just because it's black/white but also the whole area around the entrance to the site looks completely different now ...
i guess it has been used for AX for quite a while!
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Posted by: indydad Apr 14 2005, 12:47 PM
The privacy rights people are going nuts over this and homeland defense is not happy. I've heard this may come down. Not probable, but I deal with aerial photography and electronic data distribution in my job and there are forces out there to make everything available and some to restrict alot of stuff. This is a developing technology. Cool though, huh?
Old Dad
INDY
Posted by: lapuwali Apr 14 2005, 12:49 PM
My 914 is also parked in my driveway in the Google sat view. It's been parked around the corner for weeks, so the photo has to be reasonably old. My wife's car isn't next to it, so I'll bet this was taken on a Saturday morning, as it's obviously a weekend from the office lots, yet she's pretty much always at home on the weekend except for Sat. morning. No Type 3 visible, so it's at least four months old.
As for Terraview "getting closer", I think they use aircraft shots, not sat photos, at least for the closest resolution views. The Google photos look to be about 0.5m resolution, given a 914 looks like three colored blobs: hood, black top, trunklid.
Posted by: lapuwali Apr 14 2005, 12:59 PM
| QUOTE (indydad @ Apr 14 2005, 10:47 AM) |
| The privacy rights people are going nuts over this and homeland defense is not happy. I've heard this may come down. Not probable, but I deal with aerial photography and electronic data distribution in my job and there are forces out there to make everything available and some to restrict alot of stuff. This is a developing technology. Cool though, huh? Old Dad INDY |
It's not just Google, as pointed out previously. Mapquest and Microsoft also have their own versions. Microsoft's version has been out for years, and uses publicly available USGS images. If Homeland Security is worried about this, they'll need to shut down the USGS, or substantially restrict what it publishes. Even that won't stop it, as there are non-US firms providing this stuff, too. SpotImage, in France, has been provided these images for quite some time now, and are hardly subject to US governmental control.
Posted by: Demick Apr 14 2005, 01:10 PM
Too cool!
Andy - that shot at Candlestick showing all of the tracks was taken less than a week after the GGR autocross school - that's why there are so many different overlapping tracks rather than just one as you would expect from an autox course.
Posted by: gopack Apr 14 2005, 01:20 PM
Since we are on the subject, I like Terraserver better. these are 1 meter resolution pictures! Pretty amazing for a satallite photo. Here is a picture of Lambeau Field with my childhood home circled! (had to give the home of ght Packers equal time since some one posted "the Stick".
GO PACK!
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Posted by: roundboy914 Apr 14 2005, 01:25 PM
Cool, but scary.
Must be Scary Cool then.
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