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Akumulator
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2004-11-30, 02:50

This is pretty amazing.... especially when you click on the horizon and then zoom in.

http://www.tpd.tno.nl/smartsite966.html
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johnq
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2004-11-30, 02:59

But where's Waldo?
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Akumulator
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2004-11-30, 03:16

Yeahh really. It's crazy that you can see a guy on a bike from so far away (I put an arrow where he is)....



I don't know why i'm so amazed by this... we use Keyhole at work and have seen my apartment from space... but still it's creepy.
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2004-11-30, 03:43

It's scary if you ask me.....

You can never pick your nose EVER in public again, or shag with your curtains open if there is a building on the horizon that is taller than yours!!!....

I am hiding in a cupboard at the moment!

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usurp
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2004-11-30, 04:09

yeah i saw this last week... its REALLY cool.
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2004-11-30, 06:20

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It's scary if you ask me.....

You can never pick your nose EVER in public again, or shag with your curtains open if there is a building on the horizon that is taller than yours!!!....

I am hiding in a cupboard at the moment!
the photo accomplishes nothing new in that respect. It's 600 stitched images taken from a conventional D-SLR with a 400mm tele, as the site claims. Shame, you can clearly see the differences in exposure along some of the stitchings. It would have been truly remarkable if someone A) had a sensor big enough and B) had a piece of glass big enough to resolve all the detail with such a wide area of view.
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Purgatos
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2004-11-30, 09:41

Where aku found the guy on a bike... I checked a nearby parking lot and you can, in fact, read the license plate numbers on the cars.

Yayz!
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Majost
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2004-11-30, 09:54

So, anyone else find the naked chick in the window?

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2004-11-30, 09:56

First one to find a nekkid woman on the rooftops, wins.

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JLL
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2004-11-30, 10:18

Here's NASA's Blue Marble photo - 2.6GB

http://www.yawah.com/bluemarble.html
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Paul
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2004-11-30, 12:08

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Yeahh really. It's crazy that you can see a guy on a bike from so far away (I put an arrow where he is)....



I don't know why i'm so amazed by this... we use Keyhole at work and have seen my apartment from space... but still it's creepy.
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hmm... This does have some interesting implications tho... $30/year isn't too bad... but it is windows-only currently...

taking stalking to a whole new level...

mapquest had something similar, is that still around?

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johnq
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2004-11-30, 12:29

Cambridge, MA, USA = 3 inch resolution.
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Majost
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2004-11-30, 14:05

Imagine if you had that kind of resolution on the NASA pic!

Ah, the hours you could waste exploring the world. Let's see... NASA's pic right now is 2.6GB, and it has a resolution of 1km. Keep that resolution for the waters of the world, and just enhance the 30% that is land mass. Let's go to 1m resolution, so that'd make the file 780TB. Better yet - 1 foot resolution: 7,000TB=7 petabytes! Just download it (It'd only take 81 million days at 1MB/s), and you can see every house in the world... at your leisure.

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Barto
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2004-11-30, 18:52

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hmm... This does have some interesting implications tho... $30/year isn't too bad... but it is windows-only currently...

taking stalking to a whole new level...

mapquest had something similar, is that still around?
NASA has a similar program free called World Wind, unfortunately Windows only.

KeyHole is free if you have an nVidia graphics card.
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2004-12-01, 01:10

NASA's most impressive dataset in this regard might be SRTM (RADAR):



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Shuttle Radar Topography Mission
Statistics

Update* 3/14/00

Mission Statistics:
Launch: February 11, 2000, 12:44 pm EST*
Landing: February 22, 2000, 6:22 pm EST at Kennedy Space Center
Mission Duration: 11 days, 5 hours, 38 minutes
Project Start: August 1996*
Project End: March 2001
Project Life Cycle: 60 months (42 months start to launch; 18 months data processing)


Data Statistics
Land coverage: Targeted land was 80% of Earth landmass (119.56 M km2, 46.16 M mi2)
99.968% targeted land mapped at least once (119.51 M km2, 46.14 M mi2)
94.59% targeted land mapped at least twice (113.10 M km2, 43.66 M mi2)
49.25% targeted land mapped at least 3 times (58.59 M km2, 22.73 M mi2)
24.10% targeted land mapped at least 4 times (28.81 M km2, 11.12 M mi2)

Land area missed: 50,000 km2 (all in US)

Data Takes: 765 total
399 C-band only
1 X-band only
365 C and X-band simultaneous
674 data takes over land
61 Built In Test Equipment (BITE) data takes
28 'short' ocean calibration data takes
2 'long' ocean calibration data takes

Data Tapes: 330 total high-density tapes used
208 tapes with C-band data, plus one double-recorded (pilot) tape
122 tapes with X-band data, plus one double-recorded (pilot) tape
(C-band tapes each recorded ~ 30 min. of data at 180 Mbits/sec,
X-band tapes recorded 60 min. of data at 90 Mbits/sec, and were on*
average 73% utilized)

Data Acquisition: 222.4 hours total duration of* mapping phase
99.2 hours C-band operation
90.6 hours X-band operation
8.6 Terabytes C-band data (=14,317 CDs)
3.7 Terabytes X-band data (=6101 CDs)
12.3 Terabytes total data (=20,418 CDs)
(Approx. equal to Library of Congress)
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