Satellite Easter Eggs

TheChocolatay writes "Wired has a story on hidden finds in satellite images. They range from sporting events to natural disasters to bombs and firefights in Iraq. Some very interesting and cool pictures." From the article: "Part of it is that we collect so much imagery that a lot of times no eyes have seen a lot of this stuff,...And so (we) go to an area, pop it open, and wow, we didn't intend to capture this icebreaker pushing this submarine."

Please send beer

[Anonymous Coward]

Hi this [google.com]is where I'm staying, please send beer. Suite 315, thanks!

Re:Please send beer

[tcd004]

There's a decent liqour store right around the corner. [google.com]

Re:Please send beer

[The_Rook]

anybody got the latitude and longitude of the beachs of st. tropez?

Re:Please send beer

[SteelV]

This guy already knew the liqour store. He posted the question as anon coward so he could be quick and have a funny response, I bet.

Re:Please send beer

[jericho4.0]

They were posted 50 minutes apart. That implies a cunning and dangerous personality. I think you should voice your suspisions to Homeland Security.

Fuck

[Realistic_Dragon]

That'll teach me to do the bosses daughter outside.

Re:Fuck

[zuzzabuzz]

So large as to be easily seen from space?

Re:Fuck

[Binestar]

So large as to be easily seen from space?

Don't say that to her face...

Re:Fuck

[ggvaidya]

Hmmm ... does this mean all those "13NGTH3N Y0UR53LF" e-mails I get actually work?

Interesting, yet...

[ackthpt]

Something is always happening somewhere, so you're bound to capture some interesting event. Heck I'm sure Zapruder was quite surpised to capture what he did on film. It's not like it wouldn't have happened if nobody had a camera runing...

"It was the Babylonians in 2300 B.C. that first etched the lay of the land on clay tablets. Google will be taking this to a whole new level."

Indeed, the engravers were working so fast that they hardly noticed they had captured one of Sargon's armies on the move.

Re:Interesting, yet...

[Rei]

Still, the places I'd find most "interesting" don't go very high res on google maps (at least, not yet). We can't zoom in far enough on Iraq to even see Fallujah, let alone look at detail. We can't see the Temple Mount/Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. For historic architecture buffs, Europe is sadly low res. As someone who will be going to Japan later this year, it is again, unfortunately, very zoom-limited. I'd love to be able to look at, say, the Three Gorges Dam, or the Pyramids of Giza, but they're not visible. Etc.

It will be nice if Google maps actually showed most of the stuff that they're talking about.

As an aside, a fun challenge is to find landmarks from space without looking at the "map" part - only satellite images. I did pretty well on Niagara Falls and the Golden Gate Bridge, but utterly failed at finding Old Faithful.

Re:Interesting, yet...

[d_p]

Don't expect hi-res imagery of Israel. Congress passed a law requiring all commercial hi-res imagery of Israel to be reduced in quality so that its no better than the imagery being distributed by foreign commerical entities. That means 2m imagery of Israel. You can get .5m or 1m imagery of US military bases but not of Israel. I will withhold comment about foreign influence in the US govt, etc.

Re:Interesting, yet...

[mmkkbb]

The first reference I can find to such a law is in the Journal for Historical Review [ihr.org]. The home page of this institute seems awfully dedicated to Hitler, and the writeup of the law doesn't mention any specifics, and refers to the "Zionist state". Still skeptical, I found this [findarticles.com] in the Air Force Law Review, which looks a little more promising (search for 'Israel', but God knows I can't figure out where that shit is in the real law books)

Re:Interesting, yet...

[d_p]

In 1996, the US Congress passed the Kyl-Bingaman Amendment to the Defense Appropriations Act. That law says that the US government may not license an American remote sensing company to collect or disseminate imagery of Israel at a better resolution than what is generally available from remote sensing companies in other countries, i.e. 2 meters.

Re:Interesting, yet...

[bluephone]

Google bought Keyhole. Keyhole brought you those cool satellite photos of Baghdad and Afghanistan on CNN the past couple years. I'm pretty sure Baghdad and Afghanistan aren't in the US.

"Baghdad and Afghanistan aren't in the US"

[da5idnetlimit.com]

aren't yet in the u.s. ...

Grammar nazi with a sense of of humor...
gosh, I'm doomed 8)

Planetary Easter Eggs

[Alien54]

There is a story / urban legend of a weather man stationed by the militery in some god forsaken place in the wilds of Northern Canada. It is alledged that he had a huge amount of time of his hands, a large flat area without trees, plenty of rocks, a leftover construction bulldozer, and about 40 to 50 years to wait for a military internet connection so he could get other forms of entertainment.

Therefore, as a person with too much timne on their hands, he contrived moved the rocks, pebbles, and bolders aroun

Re:Planetary Easter Eggs

[ackthpt]

These are supposed to be fairly huge, so I wonder how long it will take for some to find them?

Hitler Youth had planted some trees in the Black Forest which changed color earlier in the autumn showing a very large swastika from the air. It was in Time or something several years ago. The article indicated many of the trees would be cut down.

A shame, it's not like the trees had done anything wrong...

Re:Planetary Easter Eggs

[Alien54]

as seen here [heathenworld.com] and seen here [bbc.co.uk]:

This photo was taken on November 14, 2000. The 60 x 60 meter swastika consisted of Larch trees in a Pine forest near the village of Zernikow (110 km Northeast of Berlin). It was only visible from the air a few weeks in the Spring and a few weeks in the Fall when Larch trees stood out in contract to the surrounding Pine trees.

These trees were planted in the 1930's by a local resident during Nazi times. They were largely forgotten until after the German reunification in 1992 when planes once again flew over the area.

Local forestry officials cut down 25 of the Larch trees after this photo appeared in several German tabloids. Swastikas are mostly outlawed in Germany.. Coins and stamps are exempt from the ban.

Zoom out and you see even more

[mrRay720]

In one I saw Italy and Greece kissing when they thought we weren't looking.

Nothing New

[superpulpsicle]

Didn't that old movie "Clear and Present Danger" already demonstrated satellites watching real events, real time somewhere 1000 miles away with no lag.

Re:Nothing New

[Conspiracy_Of_Doves]

Not to mention "Enemy of the State"

Re:Nothing New

[fitten]

Old movies showed giant lizards tearing up Tokyo while breathing radioactive rays. Also, another showed events that happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

Re:Nothing New

[AviLazar]

Under Siege 2 used satellite imagery, an airplanes transponder signal and a satellite with freakin laser beams to create an earthquake in the sky.

Re:Nothing New

[MrAnnoyanceToYou]

Uh.... They went into their video games in Tron years ago, and I'm still freaking waiting.

Re:Nothing New

[tylernt]

Gyroscopes are excellent for attitude control. They can be used to rotate a spacecraft around the X, Y, and Z axises. Gyroscopes cannot, however, be used to impart linear velocity to a mass (unless it is detached), so they can't be used to change the orbit of a spacecraft. Which is why the ISS needs a capsule to dock and boost its orbit, rather than simply bringing a few gyroscopes on board.

You: "Reconnaissance satellites are steerable"

Me: "How can a satellite steer its orbit"

You: "Obviously a satellite

What eggs?

[winkydink]

All I see are pictures of dirt and fields and water & junk. Not a dammned egg in the bunch! :)

Re:Intentionally placed?

[Jim_Maryland]

He also explained that because of things like fog and clouds, specific regional satellite images can be a composite of several stitched-together pictures.

To illustrate the point of stitching the images together, this link presents an interesting example of that: DC Buildings (Google.com) [google.com]. Notice at that the four buildings show a different side and shadow as though the vantage point were different for each of them.

Interesting enough, if you pan to the East and slightly to the South, you'll see a portion of the image is intentionally distorted. For those who would prefer to go directly to the area, click here [google.com].

Now if ...

[ethernetmonkey]

I could only find that image that when viewed from a distance looks like the Virgin Mary with her arm around Pope John Paul II I'd be an eBay millionare (and prob. have a /. article as well).

Uhhh...

[alwsn]

and even a 747 landing in Tokyo, something difficult to capture given that the satellite is moving at 17,000 mph.

Yes, I am often amazed that I'm able to jump on Earth while moving at 29.77 km/s*.


*Speed of the Earth in Orbit

Re:Uhhh...

[AviLazar]

*Speed of the Earth in Orbit

As opposed to the Speed of Earth out of Orbit? I hope not :)

Re:Uhhh...

[jellomizer]

I guess you did that while the plain was excelerating. Otherwise you are breaking the laws of physics you you are a good longjumper.

Best Game for Bored Workers

[NardofDoom]

Catching planes on Google's Satellite Imagery. [url=http://maps.google.com/maps?q=castaic,ca&ll=3 4.517348,-118.607926&spn=0.005697,0.007027&t=k&hl= en]One of the cooler ones.[/url]

Re:Best Game for Bored Workers

[NardofDoom]

BBcode on the brain. Real linky [google.com].

Re:Best Game for Bored Workers

[nocomment]

I like this one :-) [google.com]

Re:Best Game for Bored Workers

[Anonymous Coward]

Here is area 51, really: Area 51 [google.com]

A plane taking off at SFO [google.com]

Edwards, with two SR-71 Blackbird [google.com]

Niagara Falls [google.com]

Norfolk, with two aircraft carrier [google.com]

Mount St-Helens [google.com]

Hollywood, litterally [google.com]

To find the picture of a particular position, use:
http://maps.google.com/?t=k&z=3&ll=LATTITUDE,LONGI TUDE
LATTITUDE and LONGITUDE in degree (like 100.003441).

Enjoy!

Re:Best Game for Bored Workers

[Honig the Apothecary]

Two NASA test stands for engine and spacecraft development.
Dynamic Engine test stands at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama [google.com]. Used to test the F1 Engines for the Saturn V as well as the Space Shuttle main engines.
Dynamic test stand also at MSFC [google.com].
Also if you look to the upper left you can see the first test stand that was used at Redstone Arsenal for rocket engine testing by Werner Von Braun and his team. :)

Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL [google.com]
Here you can see one Saturn V on its side, one mo

Re:Best Game for Bored Workers

[Richard_at_work]

You want a high definition sat image of Area 51? Your wish is my command [lasvegasnow.com].

Re:Best Game for Bored Workers

[ptomblin]

I like this one better because it's a small general aviation plane: St. Hubert, Quebec [google.com]

Re:Best Game for Bored Workers

[ptomblin]

Ah, CYTZ. I'm going to be landing there on Sunday.

Re:Best Game for Bored Workers

[nacturation]

For the non-PHPBB addicts, here's a link [google.com].

One thing I think Google should do is allow searching by region and date. So if you are viewing the map at a certain zoom level, Google Maps could highlight the regions that were taken on a certain day. So you could zoom out to a certain area of interest, select your historical date of interest (eg: September 11, 2001), and see what shows up. How about night images? Ever wonder what's going on for a new year's party at a certain place?

Re:Best Game for Bored Workers

[Honig the Apothecary]

Plane Taking off from ATL [google.com] If you follow that frame east northeast you can watch as it gains altitude. One of the best ones I found yet.

The Keyhole LT Client [keyhole.com] is kind of fun to play with as well.

Re:Best Game for Bored Workers

[Mignon]

I once invented a game with Mapquest when I was very bored. It should be easy to adapt to Google maps. How boring the game is itself should give you some idea of how bored I was:

1. Think of an address or intersection - e.g. your house, or a landmark you've visited.
2. Start here [mapquest.com] (a fully zoomed-out view of the US)
3. Try to get to a fully zoomed-in view of the location you thought of in as few clicks as possible, just using the zoom control and the map itself. I.e. don't go back and type the location into the sear

Re:That's nothing

[TheFlyingGoat]

Winnar! [google.com]

Re:Blackbird...

[Negadecimal]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=New+York+City&ll=40 . 763934,-74.000173&spn=0.006276,0.005976&t=k&hl=en [google.com]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=San+Diego&ll=32.7270 48,-117.153225&spn=0.006276,0.005976&t=k&hl=en [google.com]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=San+Antonio&ll=29.39 0391,-98.620609&spn=0.006276,0.005976&t=k&hl=en [google.com]

Ok, I give up

[Tebriel]

Where's Waldo?

Re:Ok, I give up

[Ark42]

Here [google.com], I guess

In Related News ...

[ReidMaynard]

In every USA satellite photo of Castro, he appears to be mooning.

Coincidence?

Re:In Related News ...

[Leroy_Brown242]

Dude, that's your mom!

Re:In Related News ...

[kin_korn_karn]

you're too far north, that's Randy Moss.

railfan

[Russ Nelson]

Okay, so it's not so much discovery as rediscovery, but an industrial archaeologist like myself can find all sorts of interesting railroad remains using mapper.acme.com [acme.com] or my interface to the same data mapview [pygps.org]. I like to play "spot the hidden trolley" north of Canandaigua [acme.com], or south of Minneto [acme.com].
-russ

I guess

[A beautiful mind]

that this is similar a bit to Google Sightseeing [shreddies.org]

How are these Easter Eggs?

[rminsk]

Easter Eggs are intentionally hidden objects. How do these qualify as an Easter Egg? Google did not try to hide anything in the images. They just happen to be real life things happening at the time the images were taken.

Re:How are these Easter Eggs?

[Anonymous Coward]

on some days, it's cloudy, &c. -- someone has to go through all of the satalite pics and find nice, clear images to piece together into the mosaic that you see, when you go to the site. if those picking and choosing have e.g. five shots of Ann Arbor, three of them on a clear day, and one of them with the UM cheerleaders running the "naked mile"... *that*'s how you get the "Easter Eggs".

Why is everyone so impressed with Google Maps?

[ahecht]

I don't really see the appeal of Google Maps Satellite imagery, since terraserver-usa.com [terraserver-usa.com] has been offering color aerial photos that are four times the resolution, larger in size, and free of watermarks. Plus, unlike google, Terraserver-USA has a link that makes it easy to download large images.

Sure, Google Maps is great if you want your route overlayed on the images, but for finding easter eggs it's nothing special.

Re:Why is everyone so impressed with Google Maps?

[itp]

I think in large part because Google has an interface that doesn't Suck Ass.

Re:Why is everyone so impressed with Google Maps?

[Rude Turnip]

The latest map they have on Terraserver of where I work (Princeton) is from 1997. The map they have of where my dad's house should be shows the empty field that was there before they developed the neighborhood. Google's maps are more current. And, I can't navigate their maps by dragging the images around, so navigation is rather awkward. I think Google has Terraserver beat on being up-to-date and easier to navigate.

Re:Why is everyone so impressed with Google Maps?

[harks]

I looked up my house on Terraserver, it is not color and not as closely zoomed in as Google Maps. The image was also from 1991, I'm not sure when Google's pictures are from, but I know they are newer by the buildings around. Also, Google Maps makes it easier to scroll around by click and drag than clicking up, left, up, over and over.

What terraserver are you using?

[jeffmeden]

Terraserver was impressive in its day (circa 1998) but almost all the data is a decade or more old, in black and white, and 1p/m. Google's data is for the most part MUCH newer and in color. Same resolution though, i wont really be impressed until i can see a sat image of myself outside cutting my lawn.

Re:Why is everyone so impressed with Google Maps?

[ahecht]

If you select the Urban Areas data, you get .25m resolution maps. Google, as far as I know, only goes down to 1m resolution.

The Plane capture

[fracai]

I think the most interesting thing about the plane capture is that the plane appears double. This is probably due to the combined speed of the plane and satellite as well as how the image was taken. It seems that the plane had moved 30 feet or so in the time that the blue channel was imaged. Does that sound right?

Re:The Plane capture

[Timothy Chu]

Nope, not a shadow... I see it too.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=vancouver,bc&ll=49.1 92218,-123.255937&spn=0.005600,0.007510&t=k&hl=en [google.com]

Re:The Plane capture (shadow)

[fracai]

I thougth shadow at first too, but I didn't think shadows appeared lighter or bluer than the surrounding land. /. effect prohibits me from double checking.

During the Cold War...

[d_p]

...Soviet soldiers stationed at missle bases in the USSR used to carve "Fuck you USA" into the tundra and on tarmacs in huge letters with their snowplows.

In Soviet Russia...

[Jerk City Troll]

USA fucks YOU!

Re:In Soviet Russia...

[ArsonSmith]

No, that's everywhere.

Re:During the Cold War...

[zippthorne]

That's not a very good way to hide a missile base.

horn tooting

[tedtimmons]

Here are some google sightseeing sites- mine first, of course!

perljam.net/notes/interesting-google-satellite-map s/ [perljam.net]

http://www.paulrademacher.com/housing/ [paulrademacher.com]
www.shreddies.org/gmaps/ [shreddies.org]
cryptome.org/usndc-eyeball.htm [cryptome.org]
del.icio.us/knodi/google_maps [del.icio.us]
www.returnofdesign.com/feature.php?article=12 [returnofdesign.com]
gmaps.nicj.net/ [nicj.net]

-ted

I guess I was at work that day...

[daivzhavue]

I see my truck in the parking lot. Cool.

And the lost continent of Atlantis too...

[Flywheels of Fire]

(PRWEB) April 14, 2005 -- While searching for the secrets of the Bermuda Tri-angle, Chris Shearer stumbled upon a picture of what he believes is the concentric rings and canal system where Atlantis once flourished. Finding even more pictures on the subject he then concluded that with earlier pictures of the area showed much more sedimentary sand deposits. The hurricanes and tropical storms that happened last year and some of the previous years removed some of the sedimentary sand that was on top of the part

What's This?

[NardofDoom]

I found this really weird airstrip [google.com] in the middle of the Nevada desert outside of Las Vegas. It looks like the longest runway in the world, but there's nothing nearby.

And the really weird part is that the US military says it doesn't exist.

It doesn't.

[Dorsai65]

What you think you're seeing is just an artifact of the imaging system. Nothing is really there.

Under the USA PATRIOT act, you are hereby ordered to the nearest Federal Reporting Station for re-education.

Re:What's This?

[goates]

And try going a little to the north and west and you will find another runway with nothing around at all.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=groom+lake,nv&ll= 3 7. 404842,-116.238613&sll=36.518555,-115.561924&spn=0 .060768,0.085316&sspn=0.127029,0.120678&t=k&hl=en

Or go south and west an check out the craters in the valley. Take a wild guess at what they are from...

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=groom+lake,nv&ll=3 7. 129326,-116.051846&sll=36.518555,-115.561924&spn=0 .1215

Re:What's This?

[As Seen On TV]

The runway at Edwards is considerably longer. It's 7-1/2 miles from end to end.

And for the record, Groom Lake was publicly acknowledged years ago. No mystery there. It's just an Air Force base.

Another "egg"

[Quixote]

If you view the pictures of Atlanta's airport [google.com], you can see 4 planes taking off (in the air). ATL must be one heck of a busy airport!

Strange messages

[krf]

It seems that pretty much the [google.com] whole [google.com] world [google.com] seems to be covered with the same giant, repeating letters. Is someone trying to tell us something?

The Capitol

[cascino]

Anyone else notice the U.S. Capitol building is intentionally blurred out [google.com]? For "security"?

Re:The Capitol

[cascino]

And the White House and adjoining buildings are colored over [google.com]?

Re: Snipers

[falser]

The adjacent buildings are colored so as not to reveal the location of the snipers. Yes, there are snipers on various buildings surrounding both the White House and the Capitol building. I've seen em with my own eyes during a rooftop party across the street from the Eisenhower building. They'll occasionally stand up to stretch and look around, sometimes they'll wave back to you.

Re:The Capitol

[carpe_noctem]

It's not blurred out. That's just the alien technology force field which is protecting it.

*runs to the kitchen for some more foil*

Re:The Capitol

[syntap]

It is not blurred out on Terraserver for whatever reason.

Re:The Capitol

[taniwha]

maybe it moved ....

Re:The Capitol

[Shishak]

And the Whitehouse isn't blurred but the roof is has been 'cleaned' off

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=washington+DC&ll=38. 89656901359558,-77.03657269477844&spn=0.0056111812 591552734,0.009237527847290039&t=k&hl=en/ [google.com]

Before or after Burning Man

[btempleton]

People say that picture is before the event, but the roads seem like they have been driven on an awful lot at this point, and not just the roads, but the various side paths too. I know they water down the roads before people arrive but there is limited desire to actually drive them. They don't go anywhere yet. So why is this reported as a before picture?

Re:Before or after Burning Man

[Twilight1]

While I don't know whether this is a before or after picture, I can tell you that it was taken Aug 18th, 2003 18:36:19. I'll leave the rest of the exercise to the reader. :)

Cheers,
Twilight1

Re:Before or after Burning Man

[taniwha]

I think DPW drags them (probably with the same chainlink fence bit they use after to remove them).

I think it's before for a bunch of reasons: not all the JOTSs are there yet, there's a bunch of stuff around the temple (way more than there would be for clean up) and most importantly only the roads have been broken up, after the burn I'd expect the surface color between the roads to be lighter as it gets broken up.

BTW for the record this [google.com] is where we [aeropac.org] launch rockets. The large horizontal line along the bott

Spotting environmental crimes

[Bubblehead]

Reminds me of the California Coastline Project [californiacoastline.org] that got launched a few years ago. The idea behind it was to help people spot environmental crimes, building violations, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if Google's maps will soon be used for similar things - although it would help to have a more frequent update than 18 months, and to be able to browse in the past. While that information is available now (for a fee), it'll have quite a different impact once it's free.

Dating when Google's Satellite Images occurred

[rfc1394]

I found a way to determine an approximate date of when Google's satellite images occurred, by using a well-known landmark less than four miles away from where I live in my home town of Arlington, Virginia.

If you look at this link [google.com], you will see the Pentagon building, and you will see there is a repair going on at the time. This was the repair of the September 11 attack, which was completed within one year. That dates these images to sometime before September 11, 2002 when the repairs were completed.

Google Board Meeting

[slapout]

In a dimly lit board room, a man sits at the end of the table with his back to the others. One of his lieutenants is giving a progress report.

"...and our satellites have just gone online."

"How did we hide this from the public?" the man asked still facing away.

"We told them that it was another beta feature being added to Google Maps" his underling replied.

"So everything's on schedule then?" asked another man at the table.

"Yes" the dark figure replied.

The chair slowly turned until it was facing them. His face is barely visible in the shadows.
He smiles as he pets the cat in his lap.

"Our plans for world domination are proceeding nicely."

Civil war re-enactment

[Jim_Maryland]

Not exactly satellite photos...

The first mapping company I worked for flew aerial photos flights for counties. For the type of mapping we did (cadastral, planimetric, and topographic), we generally took the photos in late Fall (after the leaves were pretty much off the trees and before the snow fell) or early Spring (after the snow and before the leaves appeared). For a particular job, we unfortunately caught a major civil war re-enactment where they were shooting off a lot of cannons. Needless to say, the counties requirements for ground visibility required us to refly a portion of the county to retake the photos.

The CIA

[tyates]

Not quite an easter egg, but still pretty cool. Here's the CIA. See you guys in guantanamo. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=mclean,va&ll=38.9519 08349990845,-77.14489102363586&spn=0.0068557262420 6543,0.005804300308227539&t=k&hl=en [google.com]

Two SR-71s on the ground, outside the hangar

[Shishak]

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=CA+93524&ll=34.95342 135429382,-117.88429856300354&spn=0.00561118125915 52734,0.009237527847290039&t=k&hl=en/ [google.com]

And the USAF Thunderbirds (F-16s)

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=CA+93524&ll=34.91458 296775818,-117.89728045463562&spn=0.00561118125915 52734,0.009237527847290039&t=k&hl=en/ [google.com]

Re:Two SR-71s on the ground, outside the hangar

[CreatureComfort]

Even better! I found the Stargate! [google.com]

Found it.

[cybergrue]

Unfortuanately, the satellite image isn't of a high enough resolution to see it in google maps. If anyone from Google is reading this, please upload high resolution pictures of a place called Vegerville, Alberta, Canada so you can have a true and authentic Easter Egg in Google maps.
Giant Easter Egg [unl.edu]
Another pic [webshots.com]
more info [vegreville.com]

Re:Google Maps doesn't work right

[TykeClone]

My address works right, but my parents' doesn't (it's only about a mile off, but it's not right).

I did take a look at the google sat pictures, and they don't have my hometown in very good resolution, but it is good enough to see my parents' acreage.

Re:Where's the grassy knoll?

[kzinti]

It's right here [jimthompson.org].

Re:Boring

[xmas2003]

Not a famous person, but here is your nose-picking photo ... [komar.org]

Re:Worldwind eggsses

[doublem]

OK, it's Scotland. What's your point?

Re:Imagery

[cuzality]

For those of us not willing to simply imagine the images mentioned in the Wired story, try the mirrored story over at Mirrordot [mirrordot.org].

For more sights to see...

Interesting Google Satellite Maps (virtual sightseeing) [perljam.net]
highlights:

• Bill Gates' house
• White House- with "erased" rooftops

Google Sightseeing [shreddies.org] (blog; new sites often)
highlights:

• perspective shift over Dallas (Apr 8)
• Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant

Playboy Mansion from Terraserver.

[zymano]

TerraServer is way better than google satellite imagery.

Playboy Mansion [microsoft.com]