Google Earth

Mount St. Helens

Yup and some guy has already started an advertising gimick because of this. He is selling adds on roof tops. So if you look at say Rockefeller Center there will be adds on the roof tops near it. He already has customers and the images are updated every 18 months. Go figure.

The Jargonaut wrote: http://earth.google.com/

I suspect that most of you have tried this out. If not, and you have broadband, then get it. It is facinating!

Yes, I suggested some months ago that we could put our aerial pics of our houses but Charger said that if he'd done this, Shortie would have take his eyes off his head !!! LOL so, no way to play this game (but I understand the terrorism reason !)

The Jargonaut wrote: I still have not found the Great Wall of China HEY! If you find some interesting places, post the screenpix here and the coordinates!

I did find the China Wall. Look at the GPS point : 38°06'04 N-106°53'47 E and you'll find one of the multi China's Great Wall pieces (see what follows) !!!

And another thing very special can be found at : 14°42'43 S-75°10'33 W. These are lines that no one knows how they've been designed because you can't be sure to draw a perfect straight line without a plane or something. A big question never answered...!!! 🙄

That one now is here to show that we encountered some ancient "Apophis" things...! look at : 51°24'04 N-68°41'45 W at a height of about 55 miles... 8)

Then you can go at : 25°20'43 S-131°02'06 E (in Australia. This is called Uluru and it's one of my favourites places in the world !

And there are many many more curious and nice places on this planet !!!! (just like my fav place in San Diego) aso... 😉

The Great Wall is actually very hard to see from space. Contrary to popular legend, you can't see it from the Moon. You might be able to see parts of it with a powerful telescope if the weather is clear on earth. The Forbidden City (now called The Imperial Palace Museum) is much easier to spot in the heart of Beijing. Just to the south of the palace is Tennamen Square.

I was at Badaling just north of Beijing last October, this is a restored section of the wall and is the most popular tourist destination on the wall because it's only about 1 hour drive from the city. The GoogleEarth images don't show enough detail to see the wall.

Another interesting place to see is Xian. This is the first capital city of Imperial China. Home of the first Chinese Emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi, who conquered the other kingdoms in China and established the empire in 210 B.C. He ordered the unification of the wall from the segments previously started and created by the separate kingdoms 500 years before he was born. The center of Xian is surrounded by a great castle wall and moat that you can clearly see in the GoogleEarth images.

Here are the GoogleEarth positions:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<kml xmlns=" http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0 ">

<Placemark>

<name>Xian City Wall</name>

<LookAt>

<longitude>108.9464929667253</longitude>

<latitude>34.26812520515965</latitude>

<range>4844.80421569816</range>

<tilt>2.327558563337982e-011</tilt>

<heading>-2.037613721364525e-014</heading>

</LookAt>

<styleUrl>root://styles#default+icon=0x307</styleUrl>

<Point>

<coordinates>108.9434052267543,34.26600287066875,0</coordinates>

</Point>

</Placemark>

</kml>

_____________________________________________

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<kml xmlns=" http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0 ">

<Placemark>

<name>Forbidden City</name>

<LookAt>

<longitude>116.3947267796479</longitude>

<latitude>39.91797219148845</latitude>

<range>1993.083474431516</range>

<tilt>1.380486912985568e-011</tilt>

<heading>-0.0001392255326914474</heading>

</LookAt>

<styleUrl>root://styleMaps#default+nicon=0x307+hicon=0x317</styleUrl>

<Point>

<coordinates>116.3909310771617,39.91592077192659,0</coordinates>

</Point>

</Placemark>

</kml>

__________________________________________

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<kml xmlns=" http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0 ">

<Placemark>

<name>Bada Ling</name>

<LookAt>

<longitude>115.9888009768666</longitude>

<latitude>40.34935637654877</latitude>

<range>9907.742787618814</range>

<tilt>1.712410389792112e-011</tilt>

<heading>1.348964489184163</heading>

</LookAt>

<styleUrl>root://styles#default+icon=0x307</styleUrl>

<Point>

<coordinates>115.9888009768666,40.34935637654877,0</coordinates>

</Point>

</Placemark>

</kml>

QwazzyWabbit, I don't know how to use or extract the positions like you did ?... 🙄

The Jargonaut wrote: http://earth.google.com/

I suspect that most of you have tried this out. If not, and you have broadband, then get it. It is facinating!

I still have not found the Great Wall of China. I did find the Pyramids of Egypt.

HEY! If you find some interesting places, post the screenpix here and the coordinates!

Oh, and GZ. Don't even bother. Broadband only 😥

Oh, and it is also OS-X compatible!

Gee thanks!!!

To create the codes:

Establish the view you want to present in GoogleEarth. Create your placemark from the Add menu item. It puts a pin in the map and you can move that pin in the terrain window. Edit the place name in the editor view to the left of the terrain pane, add it to your places. Once it's in the places list, right click on it and the copy command will copy the XML code to the clipboard for pasting anywhere.

To open the kml codes:

Paste it into notepad and you can save it as somefile.kml. Once you have a kml file you can double-click it and GoogleEarth will open it. Initially GE puts kml's in the Temporary places list. You can manually move them to your permanent places list or GE will ask you if you want to make them permanent when you close GE.

QwazyWabbit wrote: To create the codes:

Establish the view you want to present in GoogleEarth. Create your placemark from the Add menu item. It puts a pin in the map and you can move that pin in the terrain window. Edit the place name in the editor view to the left of the terrain pane, add it to your places. Once it's in the places list, right click on it and the copy command will copy the XML code to the clipboard for pasting anywhere.

To open the kml codes:

Paste it into notepad and you can save it as somefile.kml. Once you have a kml file you can double-click it and GoogleEarth will open it. Initially GE puts kml's in the Temporary places list. You can manually move them to your permanent places list or GE will ask you if you want to make them permanent when you close GE.

Pfff !... Thanks. 🙂