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Anyone use this program?

Should there be a special area on this forum for people to share "placemarks"?

I could see the use for gun shows, club locations, hunting, or anything else when you want to look at something geographically.

Discuss?
 
There is a whole separate forum just for finding or asking about geography stuff. It covers things from ships and airplanes to factories and other structures to natural wonders. Also, it is searchable!

Check it out here:
Google Earth Community

On the left pane of the program, you can turn on a layer of all these "found" locations.

Maybe it is a good way to locate gun clubs in the Northeast! (Which is why I brought it up here in the first place.)
 
This is a great program. I've found Big Mamie, two carriers at the Newport Naval Station, the Arizona at Ford Island, etc.
The areas enclosed in brown rectangles have high resolution. Other areas have less and are usually greener.
You can also tilt the image to see topographical features like volcanoes at Pompei.
JT
 
I tried it and liked it. Really cool how it kind of "flys" you across the world to the address in question. I actually tried it at my family's home in NJ and saw my car parked in the driveway. [shock]
 
Try getting directions to somewhere. It gives a map and "longhand", "verbal" directions. It even shows you the turns if you want to zoom in. Can't beat that.
 
jacobtowne said:
This is a great program. I've found Big Mamie, two carriers at the Newport Naval Station, the Arizona at Ford Island, etc.
The areas enclosed in brown rectangles have high resolution. Other areas have less and are usually greener.
You can also tilt the image to see topographical features like volcanoes at Pompei.
JT

Wow, someone else who used it to find the USS Massachusetts! :D :D :D

That was the first thing I went looking for when I installed it about a year ago.
 
I dunno- my husband introduced me to this program a little while back and I thought it was seriously creepy. Some of the images are really old though depending on what states you want. My car can be found in the driveway to the house I lived in 2 years ago in NY as well as the house I moved into last month [shock]
 
reinbeau said:
Why are there three of so many replies here in this thread?

Ann,

When we converted over the software from the old forum software, there was a problem that the computer person encountered that resulted in triple just about everything. After the conversion, Derek tried to clean it up when he found problems.

If/when the Mods find these, we delete two, but it would be a horrendous task to just go thru all the old posts just to do that.
 
Ann,

Thanks for that heads up. I just went in and cleared out 16 triplicates in this thread!
 
What phase is the Moon in now?

I have no idea. This is a Derek and/or sHORTY question. Mods don't touch the basic structure of how the forum is setup.
 
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