Haven't been looking recently however i noticed they have upgraded the sat pics of sydney... and the red blob in my driveway is my RX8

however it's just a red blob....

 

That's cool! A mate of mine is a bit worried...because when he did the same zoom down on his house, there was another car in the driveway! Another rooster in the henhouse??!!

 

^lol, ut-oh.

That's pretty cool. I've been playing around with it quite a bit myself. But, some of the areas I wanted to look at don't have a lot of detail.

 

My car isn't in the driveway, but you can see my letterbox

BTW - They are aerial photography taken from aircraft, not sattelite pics.

Cheers,
Hymee.

 

Not 100% true Hymee, they are a mosaic of both Satelite and aerial photos. but they are definately not "Live" satelite photo's like some people believe.

Interestingly, some photos can be up to 3 years old, so that car could have been anyone at anytime in the last 3 years.

http://earth.google.com/faq.html

Andrew

 

I have the the date down to May 2003 for the aerial shot of my place.. Pretty old photos...

 

true true, however last time i looked, there was nothing in the garage, and the houses near my old pad shows the new building going on.

indulge me.... THATS MY CAR!!!

 

I thought someone might take me to task on that.

The area that azzaboy posted is not satellite imagery, and is definately aerial photography. To be even more of a smart **** (cause I do have some professional knowledge in this area), they are even ortho-rectified aerial photographs.

Attached is a placemark (SomePlace.kmz) that is at a viewing scale where you can clearly see the edge of some boundary between some sat images, and some aerial. The middle and upper areas are air photo's. The bottom bit, and the lower half right side are satellite.

Some of my other favourite places attached as well

You need to unzip these files somewhere on your PC. If you double click on them and you have google earth installed, it will go to that place.

You can tell the Willowbank photo was flown in late 2003, when the dragstrip was being re-surfaced.

Check out the cool stuff such as the SR-71 Blackbird, the two Saturn V rockets and the Shuttle at the US Space and Rocket Center, Hunstville, AL.

Cheers,
Hymee.

 

Ha ha...wasn't taking you to task mate.

MMMMMMMMM ortho-rectified ... sounds like something to do with this

Andrew

 

Hahaha. That would be the ortho-rectumfied ones. Not in my reportoir, thanks.

No worries brother.

Cheers,
Hymee

 

Thanks for the heads up... I am looking at my house now... and the practice in Traralgon

 

I'll confirm the age of the photos. I zoomed in on the Roma St. railway yards in Brisbane, and saw steam trains parked there. The photo credit said "Charles Kingsford-Smith". Seriously folks, I zoomed in on our street and our house wan't there, so obviously the snap was taken at least 18 months ago.

 

Haha in Melbourne the Hallam bypass is not even built so it is at least 3 years old.


Found the estate I used to live in Hong Kong.... let me at the coordinates.
22 17'08.70N 114 11'39.32 E.

You can see it from 300 ft up

EDIT: A zip file is uploaded containing the link.

 

Hey since it is so much fun... I decided to add some of my track coordinate collection.

1) Philip Island Circult

2) Sandown Raceway

 

What is the street address in Traralgon??

Cheers,
Hymee.

 

It is pretty hard to see but it is at the LaTrobe Regional Hospital.

 

No, no, I mean the street address. I.e. 59 Smith Street Traralgon VIC 3123.

I have some software I have been working on - i'll post an image...

 

Oh it is on the Princess Hwy, Tralagon West VIC 3844. I don't think there is a street number on the LaTrobe Hospital.

Try this adress:

10 Wintersun Road Berwick VIC 3806. My old place. See if you can see a Camry parked outside

 

probably late with this one but.......

 

**** that is good find!

Thanks Mikey... I am lost around Canberra all the time


EDIT: I found Winton!

 

Got Eastern Creek

Come on find Oran Park and others for me

 

I've found lakeside before, but it is only low-res Crapellite imagery

Taka - The hospital was just outside the small dataset I have for testing - it is only Traralgon addresses. I cant test the other address you gave.

Cheers,
Hymee.

 

Mt Panorama...

I used an oblique view to get some idea of the mountain. The "chase" helped me locate it. It is clear in this view.

Hard to find actually. Try finding Ayres Rock / Uluru without using a lat/long!

 

Darlington Park, Kingston Park (Karts), England Park (R/C)