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George_Bahto

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RE: Google Earth updated?
« on: March 21, 2008, 08:05:11 PM »
Hope I'm not behind the curve on this but on Google Earth last nite I noticed Sebonack was now showing - also some updated graphics on something else I worked on not too long ago.
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Matt_Cohn

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Re: RE: Google Earth updated?
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2008, 08:19:28 PM »
I'd imagine the satellite pictures are updated piece by piece, and not the whole world at once.
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C. Squier

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Re: RE: Google Earth updated?
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2008, 08:46:54 PM »
They are updated piece by piece.....still waiting for them to update the overhead of Crystal Downs.  Half the course is perfect, the other is so pixelated you can't even tell its a golf course.  Such a great tool to check out routings. 

CPS
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Michael Moore

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Re: RE: Google Earth updated?
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2008, 08:53:25 PM »
The latest Philadelphia update is sensational. Not a blade of grass out of place.
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Jason McNamara

Re: RE: Google Earth updated?
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2008, 12:42:10 AM »
OK, new GCA group project:  Hijack one of these satellites so we can get some decent pics of northern Aberdeenshire, Clwyd & Gwynedd, and, uh, everything in Ireland outside of greater Dublin.
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Tony Petersen

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Re: RE: Google Earth updated?
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2008, 12:48:07 AM »
You have to think of Google Earth as patch work i.e. a quilt under continuous construction. We've partnered with Google on a couple of solutions, so I'm kind of a Google Earth nerd...

Wanna see something cool, check out Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. You have images from 4 seasons represented in a small area... Pretty cool stuff ;)
« Last Edit: March 22, 2008, 12:50:12 AM by Tony Petersen »
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Tom Yost

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Re: RE: Google Earth updated?
« Reply #6 on: March 22, 2008, 04:03:43 AM »
Quote from: Tony Petersen on March 22, 2008, 12:48:07 AM
... so I'm kind of a Google Earth nerd...

Just 'nerd' covers it...   ;D

Tom
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Buck Wolter

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Re: RE: Google Earth updated?
« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2008, 11:05:23 AM »
I posted about this  a while back but it's a great google earth add on that puts the routing in on many golf courses. Allows you to fly over hole by hole.

www.golfflyover.com


It was mentoned along with this web site in the wall street a few weeks back.
http://s.wsj.net/article/SB120492956054020565.html
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Matthew Hunt

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Re: RE: Google Earth updated?
« Reply #8 on: March 22, 2008, 02:26:44 PM »
Quote from: Jason McNamara on March 22, 2008, 12:42:10 AM
OK, new GCA group project:  Hijack one of these satellites so we can get some decent pics of northern Aberdeenshire, Clwyd & Gwynedd, and, uh, everything in Ireland outside of greater Dublin.

You can get RCD ok but there cloud cover over parts.
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TEPaul

Re: RE: Google Earth updated?
« Reply #9 on: March 22, 2008, 02:34:34 PM »
"Hope I'm not behind the curve on this but on Google Earth last nite I noticed Sebonack was now showing -"


GeorgeB:

That's amazing! You may not have realized this but on Pascucci's insistence Doak put an architectural component into that course that had never been done before. It's called "Stealth" architecture and its purpose was supposed to be that Google Earth never could view Sebonack because it was invisible to satellites. That cost Mike about half a million dollars and it looks like it only lasted about a year. This new technology really is amazing.
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Dan Herrmann

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Re: RE: Google Earth updated?
« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2008, 03:50:16 PM »
I've actually found Microsoft's "Virtual Earth" to be more current.

Google Earth still shows French Creek and Stonewall North under construction.  Virtual Earth is up-to-date.

(Zip code 19520 if anybody's interested)
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Criss Titschinger

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Re: RE: Google Earth updated?
« Reply #11 on: March 23, 2008, 11:24:44 AM »
Quote from: Dan Herrmann on March 22, 2008, 03:50:16 PM
I've actually found Microsoft's "Virtual Earth" to be more current.

Me too.  In Cincinnati, Stonelick Hills is under construction still with Google Maps, but with VE, the course is visible.

There was a time that Google had updated the maps for Carmel, IN (Crooked Stick et. all) with winter, snow-covered maps.  Thankfully, this didn't last too long.
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