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05/10/10, 10:56 AM
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Has anyone used Google Earth?
Man! I'm so obsessed! I'm Googling Italy, England, France...and of course America. The best pictures I've seen were in Alaska. Didn't know there was such a town as Chicken, Alaska.....
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05/10/10, 11:01 AM
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I have gone back and looked up places I used to live..........some of them, including the one I live in now....have the street-level view available. Thats pretty cool......some friends of ours in Chicago, were outside getting into their car when the google van went by...so when we google map their address, we get to see different viewpoints of them getting into the car.
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05/10/10, 11:05 AM
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Yeah, but my address is 2 houses down from where they show it to be and I have really changed my landscaping since it was taken.
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05/10/10, 11:14 AM
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Originally Posted by TedH71
Man! I'm so obsessed! I'm Googling Italy, England, France...and of course America. The best pictures I've seen were in Alaska. Didn't know there was such a town as Chicken, Alaska.....
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The story of Chicken is that they wanted to call it Ptarmigan, but no one knew how to spell it. We've lived in AK for about 9 months and I'm inclined to believe the story since spelling doesn't seem to be a strength up here.  I have to agree about the pictures up here. It's pretty easy to take good ones when there is so much great subject matter. DH used to frequent google earth and would show me pictures all over the place. Pretty cool.
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05/10/10, 11:17 AM
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google earth is pretty cool. It's like traveling from your favorite chair. With my place it's easy to tell how old the pic is by looking to see which buildings are up and which pastures are grazed short. Like looking back in time.
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05/10/10, 11:20 AM
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Yea like it.LOL,check out Bermuda, straight out from NC, and count the pools. 
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05/10/10, 11:32 AM
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My parents' address has a street level view. The only problem is that it's down the block from my parents' house. I guess I'd not trust their maps or pictures.
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05/10/10, 01:31 PM
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Flash Earth
You will probably also enjoy the many supplier views at Flash Earth as well.
http://www.flashearth.com/
Another http://www.terraserver.com/
I'm age 63 and my brother is age 69. On one view of our old family farm there is soil changes that clearly show where an old fence line used to be. That fence was prior to our childhood but yet after 1886 which was when the land was homesteaded. It is any wonder that researchers and archaeologists are using such tools?
Another pasture quarter that we walked all over as kids now has such distinct features I wonder what they are. Aerial views (satellite) clearly shows things not visible from the ground.
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05/10/10, 01:51 PM
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I work with aerial images for my job and Google Earth saves me a lot of time trying to locate where the image was taken. I wish they had better resolution but then again that may not be a good idea.
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05/10/10, 04:53 PM
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In Remembrance
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Some areas have great resolution while others are horrible. I really wish the images were kept updated better, at least somewhat newer.
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05/10/10, 05:20 PM
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Google Earth is cool. I've saved several images of places that I know. It's fun.
You can also play with http://www.bing.com/maps/ to see what Microsoft is doing along the same category. You can see which set of images is the clearest. I haven't tried Microsoft's Silverlight map application, but I've used their regular maps and images.
Bing maps will also let you scroll back through time with whatever series of images they have for your chosen location.
I've used Google Earth to look up old family addresses and towns in genealogy. Even if things have changed in time, you can still see the geographic features that might be in your ancestor's stories.
I suppose that we could even put map image links in our discussions, to illustrate land issues. As long as the privacy issues don't bother you.
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05/10/10, 06:07 PM
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I tried finding this job in Google but no luck. How do you get the job driving around taking pictures? That would be SO up my alley!
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05/10/10, 06:38 PM
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yep!!!! even found myself out cutting hay in the field!!
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05/10/10, 06:51 PM
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Yep, we used it a lot when we were property hunting. Really handy for seeing what's in the area, lay of the land, etc.
At our old residence there are photos of my son walking down the street to visit his friend, plus the other kids out playing and our neighbor standing watching the van go by. Funny!
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05/10/10, 06:53 PM
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I use it for deer hunting. The measurement tool is very accurate for measuring out range. It's great to have an image map of the hunting area.
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I LOVE Google Earth! I use it to figure out how much barbed wire to buy for fences and how many acres are in part of a field, etc. It's great. It's one of those things that I would miss something fierce if it disappeared. I'll bet I look things up on it close to every day.
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05/10/10, 07:54 PM
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Last summer I had a call for a tent rental near the airport in E. Boston for a tent in an alley , customer gave Me his measurements leaving 6 to 8 in. to squeeze a tent in , but added that there was a rain gutter and windows sticking into alley from the next building .
I ran his address , clicked local pic. and was staring at His front Door with His # on it , and straight down the alley , with plenty of clearance height wise . only needed one trip to set up and one to take down , framing and lifting the tent straight up .
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05/10/10, 10:57 PM
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We used it to scope out all the places we looked at when looking for a new house. We made sure to buy one that doesn't have a 'street view'. It came in really handy in looking at properties though.
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05/11/10, 07:36 AM
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Google Maps are also cool.You drag the little man over to wherever you want to.I walked all over the place where I grew up.It`s like taking a walk down the street of your choice.I use it for vacation planning as well.
Sharon
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05/11/10, 07:53 AM
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Chicken..
Funny you noticed Chicken on Google Earth. I worked in Chicken for two summers, and it's a hoot. You can go to www.chickenalaska.com for more info. My son is on his 3rd summer there.. it's a place that you can't wait to leave at the end of the summer, but then come May can't wait to go back. It's quite a historical place... heard of Tisha?
If you drive to Alaska, there are 2 ways to drive in. One is over "the top of the world hiway" and this will take you thru Chicken. Eagle is near, it's the town that was almost wiped out with break up last year (when the Yukon river ice breaks up) ... there are alot of photo's online of it.
I LOVE Google Earth and almost use it daily.
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