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Cute Loops
04-07-2005, 07:18 AM
google has acquired Keynote Corp., a Mountain View, CA based digital mapping company.

<gee where have i seen that address recently .... small world huh?>

along with Keynotes satellite imaging software google has also acquired ownership of the satellite named gSat that is able to
produce images from space with a resolution of 1 meter/pixel. The satellite passes over any given time zone between the hours
of 10am and 11am and technically if you stand outside your home at that time and wave at the sky you will appear as an
indistinguishable single pixel. But your car parked in your driveway at that time should be just large enough to be discernible!

click on satellite on top right to find any address in North America, you can zoom in, out, and pan!....
http://maps.google.com/

http://mysite.verizon.net/bradwestcott/myhome.jpg

Cute Loops
04-08-2005, 04:41 PM
ooops, read an article wrong, and I dont wanna be the harbinger of bad information

it appears a new set of data was collected last week, between 10am and 11am in each time zone, and that data set will be available in a few months

my wife the hawkeye noticed a row of trees out back that was cut down last summer:o

zoob
04-08-2005, 07:30 PM
Coolness.

I live here...

Steev
04-08-2005, 07:41 PM
Fugg.. Roaming the US via satellite photo - I'm not gonna get anything done tonight, am I.