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Khal
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 Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 9:57 am Post subject: OT: Hey everybody! I can see your house from here... |
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Check this out... very cool!
I'm at:
27deg 32min 09.97sec South
152deg 58min 49.75sec East
Trippy!
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ESC944
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| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:14 am Post subject: |
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| With an address and I can get sat recon photos hahaha. |
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Khal
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| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:18 am Post subject: |
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I found London Drugs in Richmond... where are you from there, timstar92404?
I can't remember the name of the suburb that Kenodog's in.
I found the Ramada hotel where I stayed while I was over there  
I found a Jackson City Florist in Wisconsin. Halfway between West End and Germantown... where are you from there, Paul?
Endless hours of fun! 
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WhoDak
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Location: Akron, OH
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| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:33 am Post subject: |
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Heh, I used to play around with globexplorer.com...And briefly with mapquest, then I was introduced to google maps and was amazed. I'll give this a whirl.
"Sign number 132 that you drive a Porsche: You sit on google maps for hours browsing about in your area looking for curvy backroads."
Edit: I have downloaded and messed about for a bit...amazing! The tilt feature is incredible. It still zooms about the same as anywhere else for free but its much smoother.
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Paul
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Location: Southeast Wisconsin
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| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:50 am Post subject: |
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| Khal wrote: | I found London Drugs in Richmond... where are you from there, timstar92404?
I can't remember the name of the suburb that Kenodog's in.
I found the Ramada hotel where I stayed while I was over there
I found a Jackson City Florist in Wisconsin. Halfway between West End and Germantown... where are you from there, Paul?
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I tried it, but my pictures are very unclear, I am unable to make out anything smaller than about a 5 block area. |
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Khal
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| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 10:54 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, they're a bit average in some places. Old Brisso's clear as, though...
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WhoDak
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Location: Akron, OH
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| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:52 am Post subject: |
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It's sweet looking at ski resorts and checking the trails mapped over the general elevation with the "tilt" setting on a bit. Sweetness.
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Peter_in_AU
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Location: Sydney, Australia
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| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2005 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Karl, I keyed in your coordinates and zoomed in on what looked like someone performing an illegal act with a wombat 
There goes the last 10 minutes of free time in my day.
This is great!
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flosho
Joined: 01 Jul 2004
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Location: Eau Claire, Wisconsin
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| Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 4:07 am Post subject: |
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My apartment is pretty clear, but my house is very blurry, too many trees I guess..
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Raceboy
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Location: Estonia, Europe
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| Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 4:29 am Post subject: |
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Hehe, try to find Estonia's capital Tallinn, or Tartu, where's my university. that would be quite a feat
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WhoDak
Joined: 22 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 4:40 am Post subject: |
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These are a few of my favorite roads hehe...
Boston Mills Rd east of the river(Drive it up the hill from Riverview Rd is the best)
Boston Mills Rd west of the river(Drive it up the hill from Riverview Rd too)
And that big grassy area is half of where I work in the winter snowboarding wooo.
Incase you guys are ever in the Cuyahoga National Park area(Manning you've probably driven these) Just get off Rt 8 at 303 and head West. Then a right on Riverview Rd in Peninsula, and there's a few curves to be had that direction. Boston Mills Rd is just before Boston Mills ski resort at the bottom of the hills.
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Khal
Joined: 26 Sep 2003
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Location: Sunny and lovely interior BC, Canada
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| Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:46 am Post subject: |
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| Peter_in_AU wrote: | | Hey Karl, I keyed in your coordinates and zoomed in on what looked like someone performing an illegal act with a wombat |
Umm... that's my neighbour *cough* He, ah, had a stroke and has some "issues" now...
| Peter_in_AU wrote: | There goes the last 10 minutes of free time in my day.
This is great! |
Yeah, it's addictive, eh?
BTW, great idea WhoDak! We can show our favourite roads!
Here's the best one local to me, Mt. Nebo/Mt. Glorious. Unfortunately, they haven't traced the minor roads here in Oz yet, so it doesn't highlight like it does on yours, WhoDak.
But if you follow from around the middle-right of the image to around the top-left, you'll see the road snaking up the ridge. Then it splits in two, with one road snaking off the top of the image to the right and the other road snaking back down the left-hand side of the image to the bottom.
It's a great road. Very little traffic on a Sunday arvo, you can absolutely belt along it and it's just S-curve after S-curve...
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WhoDak
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| Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:51 am Post subject: |
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I haven't found any roads that look as enjoyable as that one Khal...atleast not around this area of Ohio  .
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Paul
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| Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:56 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks to Crunchie57 I've driven a 932 on that road! |
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Khal
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| Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:15 am Post subject: |
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Here's my place in the bottom middle of the image. The flag icon in the top-left is the where the road splits in the image above. You can see the Brisbane River winding it's way down tot he sea...
Hey Raceboy, I found Tallinn  Can't find the university...
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