New *Free* satellite maps at Google

[chinkgai]

oops my bad. fvckin google rules

 

[cstring]

well I can find mine, but it is at least a few months old.

 

[imthebadguy]

nice

 

[nomadh]

San Diego just shows line drawings. No pix. Am I doing something wrong?

 

[posterchild]

Click Satellite (upper right).

Newport News, VA 23692 images aren't from this year that's for sure... I know of a very large building that's missing right near the airport - looks like it was as they were prepping the ground for building (ie dirt). So the (C) 2005 notice isn't real accurate.

 

[john333]

Ahh, it's just the same old USGS urban area imagery that's been available for years now for free from various locations. It's not even as high res as you can get off the microsoft terraserver site with a little URL hacking.

The google maps interface is cool though with the easy panning around.

 

[nekote]

Alright, I'll bite - what's the URL hack to get greater zoom at Microsoft's Terra Server?

Changing from s=10 to 12 zoomed out 2 notches. (s the variable for Scale?)
But changing s to 9 didn't zoom in, more.

Hack gone, these days?

 

[kcreekmore]

Originally posted by: john333
Ahh, it's just the same old USGS urban area imagery that's been available for years now for free from various locations. It's not even as high res as you can get off the microsoft terraserver site with a little URL hacking.

The google maps interface is cool though with the easy panning around.

Yeah, but the two things I really like about Google Maps are:
- getting driving directions and having the satellite picture with the blue line running through it showing me the route. That's Neat!
- being able to just Cut-and-Paste an entire street address/city/state/zip into one box instead of multiple boxes like Mapquest/Yahoo maps/etc.

 

[bNeta86]

It sure looks pretty - I just wish they could figure out how to get it to work as well at mapquest.

I get the wrong directions all the time - and addresses not in their database.

Its a nifty program with a cool feature of dragging and sat. images...but for actual mapping?

I wouldnt trust a google map if I needed to actually get somewhere.

 

[TLfromAI]

Originally posted by: RideFree
Pick out your house from the Google map and click on the sattelite link.

Map to Google

Put in your street address and zipcode & that's it.

(I could see the new brick planter in my neighbor's yard...:camera:

Your lying...either the brick planter isn't new or you couldn't see it. I would assume those satellite images are at least two years old.

 

[john333]

Originally posted by: nekote
Alright, I'll bite - what's the URL hack to get greater zoom at Microsoft's Terra Server?

Changing from s=10 to 12 zoomed out 2 notches. (s the variable for Scale?)
But changing s to 9 didn't zoom in, more.

Hack gone, these days?

You may need to change to a different tileset, and they may not have the same resolution available for your area.

Try hacking your own lat/long into this example URL :

http://terraserver-usa.com/GetImageArea...ge&gc=80808080&fs=8&fc=ffffffff&logo=1

That'll grab a 2000x2000 pixel image (the bigest you can get in a single image) which is great for printing out.

 

[trikster2]

Nice!

Mapquest had these for a while then they disappered. Very NICE!

 

[drinkmorejava]

Is it just me, or do they have the white house digitially edited in some way. Lol, on NASA WorldWind it's fuzzed out

 

[TXHokie]

Originally posted by: john333

Originally posted by: nekote
Alright, I'll bite - what's the URL hack to get greater zoom at Microsoft's Terra Server?

Changing from s=10 to 12 zoomed out 2 notches. (s the variable for Scale?)
But changing s to 9 didn't zoom in, more.

Hack gone, these days?

You may need to change to a different tileset, and they may not have the same resolution available for your area.

Try hacking your own lat/long into this example URL :

http://terraserver-usa.com/GetImageArea...ge&gc=80808080&fs=8&fc=ffffffff&logo=1

That'll grab a 2000x2000 pixel image (the bigest you can get in a single image) which is great for printing out.

Nice - so if I hack the long/lat coordinate into my GPS guided missile that I happen to have lying around, I can take out my pesky neighbor right?

 

[ChineseGuy]

Use auto stiching software and stich up all the hi res map.. and create a map for your area

 

[CyberTron]

yeah, doesnt have my mom's place either, blairsville, ga. I think it would cost to much to zoom everything... you guys just need to move lol

 

[LuckyStrike]

Nudist camp nearby uh oh

No Joke!


Lucky

 

[Adam8281]

Originally posted by: drinkmorejava
Is it just me, or do they have the white house digitially edited in some way. Lol, on NASA WorldWind it's fuzzed out

Yeah, they definitely have the white house digitally edited. I think what they did is "paint" the entire roof of it brown, probably b/c of satellite equipment, snipers, missle launchers, rail guns, force field generators, etc. that are located up there. If you pan to the side, you'll notice that a number of the large buildings near the white house also have "solid color" roofs, and I'm guessing that those roofs may be used for white house protection as well. The US Capitol, which is a bit south-east of the white house is also digitally edited, it's all pixelated, but interestingly IMO the pentagon is not. The pentagon really looks cool on the google map; to find it search for arlington, VA, and then just find the river and the pentagon is right on the river.

 

[CyberTron]

boy NYC is looking pretty rough, must have taken those pics when it was far away.

 

[DainBramaged]

Holy Sh!t!! I see myself waving!

 

[Dougmeister]

CNN Story

So satellite images not available for all locations? I don't even see sat images of the White House like they showed on CNN's web site...

 

[Adam8281]

it shows the white house, search for "1600 pennsylvania ave washington dc"

 

[Dougmeister]

Really? I don't see a satellite image... just a cartoony-looking street map.

 

[zettler]

Originally posted by: john333

Originally posted by: nekote
Alright, I'll bite - what's the URL hack to get greater zoom at Microsoft's Terra Server?

Changing from s=10 to 12 zoomed out 2 notches. (s the variable for Scale?)
But changing s to 9 didn't zoom in, more.

Hack gone, these days?

You may need to change to a different tileset, and they may not have the same resolution available for your area.

Try hacking your own lat/long into this example URL :

http://terraserver-usa.com/GetImageArea...ge&gc=80808080&fs=8&fc=ffffffff&logo=1

That'll grab a 2000x2000 pixel image (the bigest you can get in a single image) which is great for printing out.

Help me out here if you all could.

When you say "try hacking your own lat/long into this example" just exactly where would you place/replace the Lat/Long coordinates to obtain a more detailed picture (if available)???

I ask because in the example above, the words "lat" and "lon" appear several times in your link, and, both "lat" stay the same while the two "lon" are different....

Thank you!

 

[john333]

Originally posted by: zettler

Originally posted by: john333

Originally posted by: nekote
Alright, I'll bite - what's the URL hack to get greater zoom at Microsoft's Terra Server?

Changing from s=10 to 12 zoomed out 2 notches. (s the variable for Scale?)
But changing s to 9 didn't zoom in, more.

Hack gone, these days?

You may need to change to a different tileset, and they may not have the same resolution available for your area.

Try hacking your own lat/long into this example URL :

http://terraserver-usa.com/GetImageArea...ge&gc=80808080&fs=8&fc=ffffffff&logo=1

That'll grab a 2000x2000 pixel image (the bigest you can get in a single image) which is great for printing out.

Help me out here if you all could.

When you say "try hacking your own lat/long into this example" just exactly where would you place/replace the Lat/Long coordinates to obtain a more detailed picture (if available)???

I ask because in the example above, the words "lat" and "lon" appear several times in your link, and, both "lat" stay the same while the two "lon" are different....

Thank you!

OK, simpler URL - I basically cut out everything but the essentials to make it more obvious :

http://terraserver-usa.com/GetImage...&lat=47.64468123&t=4&s=8&w=2000&h=2000&logo=1