Google Maps & Google Earth
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Google Maps & Google Earth
1. Downtown in general
2. The airport
3. Lake Manawa exit, Council Bluffs (look, an eyesore!)
4. Just a country mile north in Blair, Nebraska!
I have already started to use google maps in my urban planning. Â The west side of the city doesn't have great satellite images, but they will work. Â I am not concerned though, because there is little urban planning to do there, all the good stuff is east of 72nd Street.
2. The airport
3. Lake Manawa exit, Council Bluffs (look, an eyesore!)
4. Just a country mile north in Blair, Nebraska!
I have already started to use google maps in my urban planning. Â The west side of the city doesn't have great satellite images, but they will work. Â I am not concerned though, because there is little urban planning to do there, all the good stuff is east of 72nd Street.
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Okay, so I had nothing else to do today.
Below are pictures of:
1. Aircraft carrier at NAS Coronado (where I spent my last 6 months in the Navy.)
2. The Hoover Dam
3. Memorial Stadium, Lincoln
4. The Pentagon (in case you couldn't tell)
5. The Space Needle and Experience Music Project
6. The Statue of Liberty (again, in case you couldn't tell)
7. Worlds of Fun, Kansas City
8. World Trade Center site, after
Below are pictures of:
1. Aircraft carrier at NAS Coronado (where I spent my last 6 months in the Navy.)
2. The Hoover Dam
3. Memorial Stadium, Lincoln
4. The Pentagon (in case you couldn't tell)
5. The Space Needle and Experience Music Project
6. The Statue of Liberty (again, in case you couldn't tell)
7. Worlds of Fun, Kansas City
8. World Trade Center site, after
I live down in Bellevue, and my former neighbor Chris, who was the store manager at the WalMart in Council Bluffs until last year, coordinated and did most of the work plowing that farmer's field each fall since 2001. It would take him about 10 days to do each message
It was in the flght path to Offut along 75. Chris told me that that President Bush was impressed with his efforts after seeing it, and the prez has a picture of it in his office.
Sadly, Chris moved on to a new SuperWalmart in Southwest Missouri last August. There was no message for our airmen this year.
But it's real cool that the Google images has a photo of it! I'll have to send it to him
It was in the flght path to Offut along 75. Chris told me that that President Bush was impressed with his efforts after seeing it, and the prez has a picture of it in his office.
Sadly, Chris moved on to a new SuperWalmart in Southwest Missouri last August. There was no message for our airmen this year.
But it's real cool that the Google images has a photo of it! I'll have to send it to him
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This is dangerous. I can see myself on it for hours.
Zephyr, there is a lot of information on this for your railroad project!!!
Zephyr, there is a lot of information on this for your railroad project!!!
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What a wonderful web we weave.
We spend so much effort trying to free ourselves from... ourselves. A minority rises up against a majority. One person takes a stand. Laws are passed, people are murdered, headlines are made. On one hand we create things like the First Admendment, and to lesser degrees the Freedom of Information Act. In the other hand the censorship, confidentiality, classification, and coverups. Just what are we fighting for here? Ultimate freedom or ultimate security. Humans individually may not be suicidal, but as a species we sure are.
Why do I even spout all this? Because Google has taken the time to blur out Area 51 and the Capitol building. Shining examples of two places created to maintain our freedom blurred by some unidentified government hand (or perhaps so ingrained into our society, Google censored the aerials themselves). I say let the people see the satellite images of the Capitol Building and Area 51, so that they fear the real enemies, and not the supposed protectors that reside within.
Or something like that.
We spend so much effort trying to free ourselves from... ourselves. A minority rises up against a majority. One person takes a stand. Laws are passed, people are murdered, headlines are made. On one hand we create things like the First Admendment, and to lesser degrees the Freedom of Information Act. In the other hand the censorship, confidentiality, classification, and coverups. Just what are we fighting for here? Ultimate freedom or ultimate security. Humans individually may not be suicidal, but as a species we sure are.
Why do I even spout all this? Because Google has taken the time to blur out Area 51 and the Capitol building. Shining examples of two places created to maintain our freedom blurred by some unidentified government hand (or perhaps so ingrained into our society, Google censored the aerials themselves). I say let the people see the satellite images of the Capitol Building and Area 51, so that they fear the real enemies, and not the supposed protectors that reside within.
Or something like that.
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Check this out, pretty interesting stuff.OmahaDevelopmentMan wrote:Is area 51 blocked off on this, my trial ended two days ago.
http://www.livejournal.com/community/th ... 37956.html
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Yeah, I think they are at Whitman, but while trolling around for interesting things I thought I'd check out CA. My in-laws used to live in Lancaster and when we visited them we saw pleeeennnty of "WOW is THAT plane" goin on. So I thought there's definitely going to be some brew ha ha sitting at the base.
My grandpa saw a stealth bomber one time. He lives out int the middle of Nebraska (or nowhere) and he was out one night doing something with the horses and he heard this weird hum and he looked up and se said the bomber wasn't more the a hundred feet up and it was just creeping along. I guess the pilot thought it would be funny to spook some rancher.
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I have seen a B-2 flying around Omaha a Few times, Usually once or twice a year, I also say a pair of B1B's flying around the Cox Classic two years ago.
Nothing beats the LOW flyover of the B2 during the national anthem at the NASCAR race at the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City Kansas. The "Protect One 400" august 2003!
Nothing beats the LOW flyover of the B2 during the national anthem at the NASCAR race at the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City Kansas. The "Protect One 400" august 2003!
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The downside is all the NASCAR |expletive| all around <grin>Brad wrote:I have seen a B-2 flying around Omaha a Few times, Usually once or twice a year, I also say a pair of B1B's flying around the Cox Classic two years ago.
Nothing beats the LOW flyover of the B2 during the national anthem at the NASCAR race at the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City Kansas. The "Protect One 400" august 2003!
I'll stick to airshow flyovers, myself.
Hey all check out Virtual Earth @ http://virtualearth.msn.com/. The images are older than Google’s but you can zoom closer “especially in west Omaha.
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/0 ... index.htmlInternet sleuths discovered that anyone using Microsoft's new "Virtual Earth" Web site for a bird's-eye view of Apple's corporate headquarters saw only a grainy overhead photograph of a single warehouse and a deserted parking lot.
Apple's sprawling campus and eleven modern buildings -- nowhere to be seen.
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Omaha is prominently displayed smack dab in the middle of the screen... absent is KC (no space left in Missouri with St Louis) and Denver. This is great -international- exposure. Can you imagine how many people are seeing Omaha pop-up in the center of their screen and saying to themselves... "Omaha". I think that's pretty cool.Anyone notice something else nice about Microsoft's initial virtual Earth map?
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Any guesses on how old the maps are on the Microsoft site? I noticed the Qwest center building is not there, neither is the FNB Building. I also looked for Ironhorse Golf Course wasn't there either which would mean that the pics are from at least 1999 because my friends and I used to camp there in high school before the golf course came.
omahapropertymanager,
You know you can get the best maps right at you work!
You know you can get the best maps right at you work!
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I was surfing around Omaha with Google Earth today when I noticed they had updated some areas of the metro. I don't know when they did this, but my guess is the images are from early 2005. The Qwest and UPC are done (as seen in the picture) but SoMa has only a few foundations poured and one building up.
Anyways, nice of Google to update the Big O.
Anyways, nice of Google to update the Big O.
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