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jetescamilla
Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 12 Location: Phoenix
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Posted: 7/25/2007, 4:17 pm Post subject: Best aerial mapping? |
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Before I go hiking I like to check out either google earth or some site similar to see if there is some good resolution on the terrian I will be hiking in. A lot of times the remote places are in bad resolution and this does me no good. Besides google earth are there any other mapping sites that you know of that others may not know.
I recently showed someone [url]maps.live.com[/url] and they have great resolutions when you click the city view.
Look at the Peralta Trailhead _________________ Whoop!!! |
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Tom Treks Gear Addict
Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 3347
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Posted: 7/25/2007, 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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Holy crap. That's pretty cool.
I'll have to see what they have.
I don't think anything can touch that. |
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IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 7/25/2007, 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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Nice refresh rate. _________________ "Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them." John Muir |
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Abe
Joined: 11 Jul 2004 Posts: 436 Location: Prescott Valley
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Posted: 7/25/2007, 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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Wow! Heard of Goggle Earth. Never took the time to explore it. _________________ "Don't complicate what ain't complicated." |
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ldeleze
Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 3
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Posted: 7/25/2007, 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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Terra server has good aerial photos but not quite the resolution of the peralta trailhead photo
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/
You can download digitial orthophotographs from the arizona regional image archive but you need to know which USGS 7.5 minute quad in which you are interested. These orthophotos are meant for manipulation in a GIS program.
aria.arizona.edu |
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IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 7/26/2007, 5:40 am Post subject: |
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I think the photos of peralta trailhead were add ins. I don't think satalites take pictures of the earth at 45* angles. I really liked them though. _________________ "Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them." John Muir |
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Suz
Joined: 27 Nov 2005 Posts: 3186
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Posted: 7/26/2007, 5:45 am Post subject: |
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I can't get it to work with either of my browsers..........probably a mac thing. |
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outside1
Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 366 Location: Mesa, AZ
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Posted: 7/26/2007, 6:43 am Post subject: |
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Very cool, can wait to try the 3D veiw at home on a 20 inch monitor. _________________ Tony |
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KFarm
Joined: 30 Jan 2006 Posts: 98 Location: Phoenix, Arizona
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Posted: 7/26/2007, 8:06 am Post subject: |
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That’s funny…you can switch directions were the zoom is and view a different perspective from the N, S, E, or W. When you do that, you’re obviously looking at a photo taken at a slightly different time and angle. _________________ Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne |
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jetescamilla
Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 12 Location: Phoenix
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Posted: 7/26/2007, 8:12 am Post subject: |
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I really like that switch view option. I work for an engineering firm and we use this website to get aerial views of our future projects for our proposals.
Here is the Camelback parking area Looking from the North side _________________ Whoop!!! |
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wanderingsoul
Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 2285 Location: Gilbert AZ
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Posted: 7/26/2007, 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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That is some site, think I have to learn to work it a bit though. I looked up a few places but didn't get quite the same look as the Peralta, but man that was something. Really good views and you can move the mouse to make it go quite a ways. Pretty impressive. _________________ Wanderingsoul (Michelle)
Positive Thinking Is the Spark that Makes Dreams Happen~~~Unknown |
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