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[ROAD_DOGG33J]

part of O'Hare Airport

 

[LoudMusic]

That is one big freaking airport. Lots of little planes in that picture, along with two or three GINORMOUS ones.

 

[Purple Platypus]

I found my car!

http://www.terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=4&S=8&Z=10&X=11764&Y=82785&W=1

It's the gray one parked in front of the lighter colored house in the middle.

It looks really long and skinny from here. Maybe it's the shadow.

 

[LoudMusic]

dude, that's creapy (:

 

[Blackbird.]

My school.

 

[keram]

I don't know America well enough but could someone find the Grand Canyon for me, thanks.

 

[xAkirax2004]

I don't know America well enough but could someone find the Grand Canyon for me, thanks.

http://www.terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?S=14&T=1&X=78&Y=1245&Z=12&W=1&ref=F|Grand+Canyon

 

[keram]

Thanks.

 

[cardude2004]

My school.

Looks like a parking lot to me.

 

[Blackbird.]

Most of it is. But the buildings are classrooms. The parking lot right below the pic is another school.

 

[Nasadus]

part of O'Hare Airport

Daaaaaamn,that's huge.Just think that around 200 people fit into that one little plane.It's mind boggling.

 

[63AvantiR3]

Where the Oakland Athletics and Oakland Raiders *Ack* *Cough* *Cough* GO BACK TO LOS ANGELES!!! *Cough*.... Sorry, hairball.
http://www.terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=4&S=9&Z=10&X=5703&Y=41784&W=3&qs=|Oakland|California|
Get the sense that I like the A's more than I like the Raiders?
In late February nobody would be there. The stadium looks like it's in transition from Football (September-January) to Baseball (April-October)

 

[LoudMusic]

Sweet! That's one of the more recent pictures I've seen on Terraserver. Good find (:

 

[DQuaN]

I would still really like to find this kind of thing in the UK. Does anybody know of one?

 

[DQuaN]

Ooooh! Heathrow!

 

[cardude2004]

I found something that somewhat goes international. You can see other countries, but you can't find specific locations - http://terraserver.com/ - rather than http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ - which is only the US. You can use this - http://www.multimap.com/map/home.cgi?client=public&overviewmap=ap&advanced=true - to find the latitude and longitude of what you are looking for on the terraserver.com website.

 

[Emohawk]

Several people asked about area 51: http://terraserver.com/special/area51/area51.asp

I'm slowly panning north east along the Los Angeles river now.

 

[Small_Fryz]

Is there anything like this for Europe or Canada? or even Australia but I doubt it

 

[TB]

My house!!! Well, where it'll be in 7 years. The pic was taken in 1997. Further proof that no one cares about ND.

 

[Emohawk]

People seem to like posting stadiums;
I don't know what this one is, it's in LA somewhere and I don't think anyone's posted it yet.

 

[LoudMusic]

Yeah, I've noticed the stadium popularity as well. That one is cool - I like the big trees and curved walk ways.

 

[63AvantiR3]

People seem to like posting stadiums;
I don't know what this one is, it's in LA somewhere and I don't think anyone's posted it yet.

That one is Dodger Stadium. I can tell because of the blue "zig-zag" roof covering the backs of the bleachers and the empty space to straight-away center.
The batter should see some hills in the background; and if we make the picture large enough and zoom out enough, you can see hills beyond the center field gap. Cool stadium. I haven't been there in person yet; just in "High Heat" and other digitized baseball games

 

[inferno]

Home sweet Home

My house is about in the center of the pic. I've never seen the top of my house before. I wish i could get in closer.

 

[LoudMusic]

Home sweet Home

My house is about in the center of the pic. I've never seen the top of my house before. I wish i could get in closer.

Try getting out a ladder (:

Alright, here's a different approach. I found this image of an interesting bit of track at Union Station in Chicago and decided to go see if it still looked like that (because the picture I found appeared to be old). So over at our friend Terraserver I found this cool image from 2002. I've actually been to that Union Station so it's kinda neat to me (:

So the new game here is to locate the arial view of something you already have a picture of.

 

[VT]

Woohoo! Most of Virginia Tech's campus.

http://www.terraserver-usa.com/imag...rg,+VA+24060&ALon=-80.4199177&ALat=37.2281339

 

[LoudMusic]

Home of the Big Mac (:

 

[VT]

Home of the Big Mac (:

Yes. Not to be confused with the heart attack laced burger.

I guess it could also be called a Power Mac. Although much much more powerful than Sage's.

edit:
Its housed in the rectangular building in the middle of here.

 

[LoudMusic]

I've got a mini-cluster. Actually they're not clustered at all, just ten workstations. One of them has a dead processor and I need to take it to the shop today.

Hey, someone find Apple's campus on the Terra Server.

 

[VT]

I've got a mini-cluster. Actually they're not clustered at all, just ten workstations. One of them has a dead processor and I need to take it to the shop today.

Hey, someone find Apple's campus on the Terra Server.

Nice. Now imagine building one 275 times larger and insanely more powerful .

edit:

Apple's uh .. 'campus'. There's nothing there hardly. 1 Infinite Loop. What a street address.

 

[franz]

Proof of UFOs ... just j/k
http://www.terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=12&Z=13&X=677&Y=5605&W=1