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shadowpup

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Is there a web site like "google earth", that posts pictures in real time. Most of the pictures on google are a year or two old.


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shadowpup wrote:

Is there a web site like "google earth", that posts pictures in real time. Most of the pictures on google are a year or two old.
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Think about it, there would have to be high resolution cameras pointing everywhere in the world all the time - plus consider the aggregate data that would have to be down linked in real time, 99.999999999999% of which wouldn't be viewed by anyone.

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Yes there is but it is but not available to the public.

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jauguston wrote:

Yes there is but it is but not available to the public.

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hee, hee! I expect you'd have to have a "need to know" clearance to have access to it.


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The NSA might get a little perturbed at having real-time satellite images available to the public.


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I would be happy to still get "google earth" with having to pay for it!


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RGordon wrote:

I would be happy to still get "google earth" with having to pay for it!


My Google Earth is free. To make sure I just pulled up my address.

Are you saying you have to pay for it? How much?


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If you like Google earth you will love MSN Live Search Maps( http://maps.live.com/ ).The MSN site has incredible resolution in the "Birds Eye View" mode.But like Google Earth it's not in real time.

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nowgrn4 wrote:

If you like Google earth you will love MSN Live Search Maps( http://maps.live.com/ ).The MSN site has incredible resolution in the "Birds Eye View" mode.But like Google Earth it's not in real time.


just checked that out and the images are well over a year old more like 2 years old, I could tell better with a little more close up detail but I looked at my house and can tell from what vehicles are on the property and what is where in my back yard, it was taken late summer as my pond is very low, it only gets that low in august if its a dry summer my vegtable garden has nothing in it, 3 years ago it did, it kind of looks like my TT is in the driveway but hard to tell cause of a tree and not enough zoom or clear detail, with a little more I could probley narrow the time it was taken down to the week.


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rv2go wrote:

RGordon wrote:

I would be happy to still get "google earth" with having to pay for it!


My Google Earth is free. To make sure I just pulled up my address.

Are you saying you have to pay for it? How much?


No, he's saying he wouldn't mind paying for it, if he had to.


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