Re: Satellite photos of trails - no coverage

[Niccolai Murphy <niccolai_m@yahoo.com>]

Have a heart. There was none for our area last year either. It takes
time to collate those things. I think it's off Russian satellites (US
government won't release anything better than 10 meters resolution)
and they used real film. They shot a whole bunch of low orbit cameras
and parachuted the film catridges back down. Many security advantages
to that system, but cut and paste has to be done by hand. So my guess
is that it takes a lot of time to compile the database.

Look up www.spot.com, it's a French system (I think) but you have to
pay for it.



---Robert Morris <bobmorris@rmci.net> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the encouragement. I live for maps and the like. Guess
what? No
> coverage of this part of the country!!! Not enough people to make it
> interesting I guess.
> 
> Bob Morris
> Morris Endurance Enterprises
> Boise, ID
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David E. Carlson <dcarlson@theriver.com>
> To: niccolai_m@yahoo.com <niccolai_m@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Ridecamp Ridecamp <ridecamp@endurance.net>
> Date: Wednesday, November 04, 1998 8:52 PM
> Subject: Re: Satellite photos of trails
> 
> 
> >Bad, bad, bad, Nicco. Now I haven't done any work for two days.
> >Now lots of us haven't done any work for 2 days!!!!
> >But thanks!  It's great, love it! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
> >
> >Karen
> >
> >
> >Niccolai Murphy wrote:
> >
> >> It's occurred to me that some of you may not know of the
existence of
> >> a database of 1 meter resolution satellite photos available on the
> >> Web. Useful for checking out trails in your area. It doesn't
cover the
> >> whole planet yet, though they are adding to it.
> >>
> >> It covers my riding grounds (Poway, S. Cal) pretty well. Even at T1
> >> speeds it takes a fair amount of time if you are downloading 1
meter
> >> photos, one page gives you about 800x600 yards, get to spot your
own
> >> trailer but not the horses. They are a few years old, so some new
> >> buildings may have sprouted and some trails dissappeared or made
since
> >> they were taken.
> >>
> >> My study wall is covered in 6x6 mosaics of these things.
> >>
> >> http://terraserver.microsoft.com/
> >>
> >> ==
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> >> Nicco Murphy - Poway, San Diego, CA
> >>
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> 
> 

==
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Nicco Murphy - Poway, San Diego, CA



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