Here is my house....from space

Geo_2

I think this site has more up to date scan's

http://viewers.globexplorer.com/prtViewer/2D3DViewer/Viewer.jsp

Paul Rohrs

my house viewed from satellite

http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=10&x=3456&y=22628&z=14&w=1

Pretty cool website. Find your place. I wonder if my neighbor is a little nervous about not pulling the permit for his new addition?

regards,

PR

Alan R. Mercurio

Thanks Paul

That was fun. I even looked up the house I had grown up in. Pretty cool stuff.

Your friend in the industry,
Alan R. Mercurio

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Pat Clark

Here's mine

Most current satelite photo is from 1996. Mine is at top left of photo.

Lost a couple of trees in a windstorm last year, but they show up here.

Pat

jackchips_2

Cool, Paul

Thanks.

Tom M.

neat stuff

Here's where I grew up and still work. Just left and above center is my Dad's house, the shop and office. It must have been lunchtime, there are vans parked out front.

http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=10&x=1538&y=23603&z=19&w=1

Interesting: if you pan east 4 clicks, you can clearly see the path of the old Middlesex Canal which is practically invisible from the ground. It is the dark line running along the highway. If you then follow it north, it crosses the highway, goes behind the FW Webb supply house and becomes a couple of water hazards on the golf course.

Tom M.

stonehouse_2

Pretty

cool site. Found it when we were buying the house last fall...

http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/addressimage.aspx?t=1&s=10&alon=-75.41009689&alat=41.72956324&w=1&ref=A|SR-670,+Pleasant+Mount,+PA+18453&Lon=-75.3697312548&Lat=41.701436934

We're the 2 structures just to the right of the "crick" and under the road (Rt. 670). Down the road a piece is Honesdale, PA where the first steam locamotive in the US was ever run. Actually the first 2. The first blew up and the incident was covered as to not frighten the investors...
A bit of Steam history...

P. Smith

I'll have to remember this the next time i run out to get the mail in just my boxers. Hopefully it will be warm enough for that soon cause its snowing here today.
MarkE

Greg Swob

Unrelated to Terraserver, but

An acquaintance with a GPS unit in his vehicle told me a couple of days ago that he had heard there was a raid using guided smart bombs in Iraq and during this time, his GPS unit was tracking within a couple of feet accuracy rather than the 15' +/- which it normally reads. He stated later in the day, GPS accuracy reduced to normal levels - his assumption is that the bombing was over with and our troops did not need the supercharged GPS accuracy for guidance systems. The guy may have lent some artistic elaboration to a story or perhaps he is right. I believe GPS accuracy is up to the quality of the electronic apparatus, software, hardware, etc. and is not dependent upon being 'supercharged' at the needs or whimsy of the military. Opinions? Greg

jim lockard

Thanks Paul -2-

Found my house and several others as well as a local civil war camp that I have permission to walk when the weather gets better.

Jeremy_2

GPS accuracy

Never heard about supercharged GPS, but have heard of selective availability where the military can make gps innaccurate in any part of the world, was done here for quite a few years and the GPS was only accurate to 100 ft or even more, some GPS makers used position averaging to compensate for this(sometimes GPS would show you moving even while standing still). I believe the big improvement to the GPS lately has been WAAS, which uses radio signals to correct info from satellites that may not quite be in correct orbit and timing issues. WAAS is supposedly only being used in North America.

P. Smith

wouldn't be off of the same satalites. for GPS to work The signal must be sent to atleast 3 satalies (why it's call triangulation) the more satalites used the more acurate the unit is. A gps unit in US wouldn't use the same satalites as one in Irag because the signal must be a streight shot, look at a globe and youl see that a signal coming from here would have to pass through earth to be inline with a satalite over the middle east.