Where do you live- satellite style

**Biggles** · 03-06-2005, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by gemby!

Does that mean i can take the foil off..... ?

It's probably best to keep it on at all times.

**Gemby!** · 03-06-2005, 05:13 PM

But i feel like a baked potato

*insert baked potato smiley here *

**clocker** · 03-06-2005, 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by bigboab

Which part of Australia do you think that Scotland is in?

The plaid part?

Originally Posted by uNz[i

]Oh... and Rolf Harris was actually from the UK.
He just spent his holidays here, and the Brits took every opportunity to deny responsibility. So the legend grew...

So they deported him then.

You may be interested to know that we have a somewhat similar situation here in the US of A.
All of the residents of Texas were forcibly relocated from other states.

**hobbes** · 03-06-2005, 05:53 PM

Originally Posted by uNz[i]

Am I jealous? Or are you arrogant? It's a matter of perspective.

Even if I live in Sydney (Australia's most populated city), as far as the folks in the good ol' USofA are concerned, the entire place is nothing but a huge grass paddock.

What is right with this picture?

Well I think your

says it all. Why was your city not included? That was my point. You're upset that Sydney is not there so you make disparaging comments about American rooftops, twice. The first time I ignored you.

It is not my decision what the Keyhole company deems necessary to make available. It is a privately owned company trying to make a buck, not a government funded educational tool to brainwash the citizens of our country. Many portions of the USA are just grassy blurs. My entire college town of 100,000 has essentially no data. It is a green blur even though a State University is there.

I fail to see how you came to the conclusion that I was arrogant. You think I made this software or something?

The program is great fun for looking at places you haven't been to in a while to see how they have changed. I was able to follow old counrty roads and see my Grandmothers farm. I spent hours touring differents places on that thing yesterday, you just have to stay in the data belts.

If your location is not available, that is a shame, but no need for you to rain on our parade just because your city is not available. And no need to make comments about what people in the USA think about Australia based on one demo program. That seems a bit touchy to me.

From KEYHOLE:

Will I be able to see my house?

That depends. While Keyhole does cover the entire globe with satellite imagery, we do not have high resolution imagery for the entire globe. We have focused on larger, US metropolitan areas initially, and will be adding much broader coverage in high-resolution detail over the coming months. See the following charts for a comprehensive list of available high-resolution cities.

They even provided a few teaser images of Sydney:

**clocker** · 03-06-2005, 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by hobbes

You're upset that Sydney is not there so you make disparaging comments about American rooftops, twice. The first time I ignored you.

An admirable display of restraint, good sir.
Bad enough they lust after our womenfolk, but to bad mouth our rooftops?

A man can only stand so much.
A sound thrashing is called for.

Bring hobbes his cane.