BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...

Subject: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 08:47 PM

Someone has added a tweak to Google Maps to show the current daylight areas...right here ....but you can then zoom in on the area you choose (well, if you have a reasonably fast connection, I guess) and see the stored satellite photos of the area.

If I understand it, this will give you a view of the Ketchikan, Alaska International Airport

You can zoom in, copy the link from the top, and display it like I just did..(I think)...I am beginning to use tricks like this to give directions to my house. There has been a very large increase in the database now online, and it's growing every day.

Now, here's MY area, but note...you only 'see' it briefly if it's dark here, as it is as I post....then after a second, they overlay the relevant amount of 'dark'. Come back later to see it in daylight.

(In regular Google maps and GoogleEarth, you can get the daylight view anytime....)

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 10:58 PM

Most of the pics from google earth are actually taken by high-flying aircraft, not satellites....

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 11:35 PM

All I see in the links are a gray screen, it doesn't even look like nighttime even. I look tomorrow, but it should still be light enough in Alaska for the one to show up.

I tried Google Earth a few weeks ago and was sorely disappointed. The resolution was terrible and when we tried to zoom in on our house all we saw were blobs of green and we don't have THAT many trees!:-)

Thanks, anyway, Bill...

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 15 Aug 06 - 11:40 PM

"The resolution was terrible"
As Google gets more and more money, they'll be able to afford more and more higher-res photos for Google Earth...

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: Pauline L
Date: 16 Aug 06 - 02:32 AM

Bill D., I just tried it and found something very interesting. It's now 2:28 AM where I am, and there is one light burning brightly in the map -- it's my home! I hope no one is spying on me.

Katlaughing, I could see every detail in my neighborhood on Google Earth: every street, building, RR tracks, MacDonald's ("show restaurants") by day or night.

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Aug 06 - 08:44 AM

Kat...they are, naturally, usually doing the more urban areas first. It's a big world!


(Clinton...perhaps some photos are being done with aircraft, but there are many, many places in the world where aircraft overflights are not welcome. I'm sure that many govts. and Google have agreements that certain areas will not be shown in hi-res. I KNOW a couple people in the US who love too near a military base for their house to be shown close-up.)


If you go to Keyhole, there is an active community of folks posting interesting links from all over the world. It has become sort of a game to find precise links to stuff like celebrities homes and weird formations in deserts.

also http://www.googleearthhacks.com/ does something similar...news ABOUT GoogleEarth and ways to use it...

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: Bill D
Date: 16 Aug 06 - 08:51 AM

One thing I discovered using GoogleEarth was that this PC didn't come with a 3D-graphics card! *grump*...since I don't play fancy video games, I never missed it until I tried to do some of the tilting and 3-D building displays that are possible....Now I have to go find a 'decent' 3D card that will do the necessary, but within my budget. (You can spend 500 or more on some of those thing....and I read that someone is producing a $12,000 graphics card that will do GoogleEarth tricks beyond belief..)

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 16 Aug 06 - 12:24 PM

" there is one light burning brightly in the map -- it's my home!"
You don't actually think that Google Earth works in Real Time do you? All that means is that there were lights on at your place when the pic was originally taken.....

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Aug 06 - 01:18 PM

Danged. My post didn't take. In the process of checking to see if I'd been 'credited' with that post, I discovered that I have now posted 10, 171 times! That's since January 1 of 2000. Wonder what else I've done 10,000 times? Almost 130 posts a month!

What I wanted to say, though, is that the map of Ketchikan was an interesting view to me. Clearer than by air because it is a larger view.

As you can see, Ketchikan's airport is on an island. Across the water way is the mainland. Not far away.

This is the site of the infamous 'Bridge to Nowhere' that was planned by our illustrious governor and had its money allocated by Sen. Ted Stevens. (All gone bye bye now- the money has been committed elsewhere)

Those who wanted the bridge (not everyone did) one of the reasons cited was that each time one went to the airport or returned home again it was a $12.00 ferry across the water.

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 04:37 AM

Doing urban areas first? That explains why I can't find St Helena on the map (it's the little fly speck island in the middle of the South Atlantic).

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: Mr Red
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 07:44 AM

Bill D - you aren't waving at us..................

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 08:07 PM

sure I was waving...look to the LEFT of the tree!

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Aug 06 - 08:13 PM

Ebbie..I used Ketchican because I landed there once. That landing strip has been WAY improved since 1975! It was totally scary to see what they had to do to land back then.

(I also zoomed in on Juneau, trying to see where I stayed for a week, but I think it has changed enough I can't remember. It was way up..2nd to last street in suburbia....and a trail up the mountain started nearby)

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: Den
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 06:04 PM

Kat, your video card will also determine the quality of the images you view on Google Earth. My desktop has a high end video card but my laptop does not and the images are quite noticably different between the two.

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: Kaleea
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 06:42 PM

"weird formations in deserts"?

I'd rather actually go to a bakery than see one on a map!

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 06:51 PM

tsk! THISis a weird formation in a 'dessert'! *grin*

(but you can hold your flan up when the next pics are taken...maybe they'll get it!)

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 07:03 PM

EEuugh.. that looks like a furball on a plate... give me a big slice of chocolate cake any day!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Aug 06 - 09:54 PM

oh...I didn't see this before! In the DaylightMap, on the far right, you have 'options'...including the ability to specify the date & time you want the image to represent! So it is not necessary to wait to see a location.

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: JennyO
Date: 19 Aug 06 - 01:34 AM

Eeeeeuwww! That dessert thing looks like it belongs on the Colonic hydrotherapy thread!

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Aug 06 - 10:09 AM

heck, you oughta see some of the main courses!

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: JennyO
Date: 19 Aug 06 - 11:25 AM

Well I dunno - the photographer must really hate the cook. Some of those things might possibly be quite nice, but they don't exactly invite you, do they. I mean, would you feel like eating this , this , this or this ?

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Aug 06 - 12:58 PM

That last one.."spinach cake" looks like it HAS been eaten once...

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 Aug 06 - 02:40 PM

I suppose if anyone ever talks about how it's raining cats and dogs where they live Clinton will post pointing out that that is not in fact possible...

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 19 Aug 06 - 02:43 PM

Only if they try to say that they can see it on Google Maps....

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 19 Aug 06 - 05:31 PM

What's the purpose? Just look out the window.

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: Alice
Date: 20 Aug 06 - 11:24 AM

Sorry, doesn't work with my browser. Great idea, though. I'll look at the site next time I am on a library computer.

Subject: RE: BS: Daylight map- a neat trick...
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Aug 06 - 07:54 PM

ahhh..it DOES seem to need a browser of 'recent' vintage....Opera 7.5 does NOT work, but 8 and above work fine....and it 'may' be necessary to allow javascript. I wish they'ed make it absolutely clear what the restrictions and requirements for these things are.