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Old February 8th 06, 12:49 PM
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Paul-S8 wrote:
Has anyone tried google earth to vie a ski area yet?

I have known about the Sat images of the earth for a while. Back when
microsoft had its terra server up and running and then google got in
on the deal the problem was it was very low resolution images. Just
recently Google earth has added alot of new hi res scans. when I
recently went on I noticed they had the whole of west yorkshire
updated. It wasn't long before I started to look at the ski areas,
damn low res but I noticed on the version of google earth that you
download you can tilt the map and view the contours of the mountain.
This is very cool, you can zoom in rotate and almost 'fly' through
the valleys.
Anyhow, I just happened to zoom into andorra and found that it was
hires images. when you zoom in you can see the pistes, lifts and even
some people and if you use your imagination you can even spot the odd
mogul field.
if you haven't already got it check it out here
http://earth.google.com/

and then try (copy and paste the following position into the search
box)
42°31'48.93"N, 1°27'33.05"E

Truely impressive stuff!!!!

Cheers
Paul


I've never thought of using it for ski resorts! Really cool when you change
the viewing angle!!


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