Satellite fun

[parrot of doom]

www.terraserver.com/search/intlcity_search.asp

Good site for snooping into your neighbour's back garden!

If you pay a couple of quid, you can zoom in really far, I could quite easily see people walking around, and not just 1 or 2 dots either. You can see some astonishing detail, I could make out marques of cars!

I've made a great image of an area I know, paid a few quid for a week's access and a bit of photoshoppery, and I have a 4000x3000 image! I'm not putting it here though, probably not a good idea to advertise my address

[hedders]

Did you have to pay extra to get the image you have or does it allow you to save as many as you want as a subscriber?

If the latter...if it's not too cheeky, any chance you could grab a decent quality image of Milton Keynes Town centre and surrounding streets for me?

[parrot of doom]

If you pay for a week's access, you can do what I did.

Basically, I zoomed right up to max, did a screengrab, pasted into photoshop, then panned the satellite image over, screengrabbed, ad infinitum.....

Takes a while, but after a few hours you can produce something that will quite happily blow up to a decent poster size. Nice thing to have on your wall

[puggit]

PoD - maybe you could show us a glimpse of what you created? ie a car that you could make out

[parrot of doom]

Thats a small section of the vast image I've been putting together

I believe from the website bumf that if you order an image from them, the compression will be lower.

[john_p]

This is great fun!

I feel like I'm working in CTU

[hedders]

parrot of doom said:

If you pay for a week's access, you can do what I did. Basically, I zoomed right up to max, did a screengrab, pasted into photoshop, then panned the satellite image over, screengrabbed, ad infinitum.....

You would think they would just let you save the images if you have paid...tight buggers...

[Zad]

...and for those on a really tight budget: Go to www.multimap.com find the place you want (mainly England unfortunately) and click the "Aerial" camera icon at the top of the screen. The resolution is nowhere near as good as above, but its not bad.

Mike

[Muncher]

My dad was trialling a similar thing for seeing road layouts in motor claims. The resolution was a lot better than that though.

[parrot of doom]

Muncher said:

My dad was trialling a similar thing for seeing road layouts in motor claims. The resolution was a lot better than that though.

That would be getmapping, aerial photographs of the UK taken from a plane. This is from satellites

[rfisher]

Isn't that Osama Bin Lardarse next to the railway line?

[eharding]

See if you can spot the work of WW2 German
prisoners-of-war just north of Henley-on-Thames...

51°33'06.9"N, 0°54'46.6"W

...in reality, very hard to spot from the air...

[centurion07]

Request a picture of Area 51.


Go on. You know it makes sense!!