Where do you Live via Google Earth™

Beansprout · 26 Feb 2006 at 11:20

For the people who don't have the high-res data for their area....would you like it?

World Wind can almost-certainly get complete coverage of England/Wales/bits of Scotland at 5metres per pixel which is three times the resolution of the low-res areas on Google Earth, but we're also trying to persuade the company to let us get their high-res 0.25-centimetre stuff, too - that's the-same-or-slightly-lower than GE's uber-high-res stuff (which looks about 10cm - 25cm to me), but still easily enough to See Your House (TM). And we wouldn't horribly compress the images like GE, either

If anyone's interested then we need People Power to help persuade the company to agree and speed things up. ie, we show their watermarked imagery to the World Wind userbase with their watermark, people see it, go to their site and maybe buy it (ie, how GE works - "Image (C) DigitalGlobe" etc).

Shoot me an e-mail to [email protected] with a short blurb and your name/location and I'll see what we can do

Edit: Our goal is to make imagery accessible to all so while initially we'd put the imagery up in a World-Wind-compatible format, it's also possible to put it up for online viewing and viewing through GE, among others.

Logsi · 26 Feb 2006 at 11:25

Dont know how i got 2 name on one thing.

Melm0 · 26 Feb 2006 at 11:25

I have no idea how old this pic is, but all i can say is we've never had a red car.

RandomTom · 26 Feb 2006 at 12:18

This is about 6 years old this photo:

The_Dark_Side · 26 Feb 2006 at 12:30

Curio said:
Google Earth makes you afraid? You better not look into spy satellites and spy planes then I assure you, the UK has probably been totally mapped out in much higher detail than that for a long, long time. There's probably a Russian satellite counting the change in your pocket right now

Echelon.
be afraid...be very afraid.

BFCTom · 26 Feb 2006 at 12:32

The photo of my street is really old, my house isn't even on it.

fini · 26 Feb 2006 at 12:32

Thanks to everyone who kept the longitude/latitude details on their photo's - I'll make sure to sell your stuff on MM at very reasonable prices, if you could just post what times you're at work too that'll be great

fini

crunchman · 26 Feb 2006 at 12:38

Beansprout said:
For the people who don't have the high-res data for their area....would you like it?

World Wind can almost-certainly get complete coverage of England/Wales/bits of Scotland at 5metres per pixel which is three times the resolution of the low-res areas on Google Earth, but we're also trying to persuade the company to let us get their high-res 0.25-centimetre stuff, too - that's the-same-or-slightly-lower than GE's uber-high-res stuff (which looks about 10cm - 25cm to me), but still easily enough to See Your House (TM). And we wouldn't horribly compress the images like GE, either

If anyone's interested then we need People Power to help persuade the company to agree and speed things up. ie, we show their watermarked imagery to the World Wind userbase with their watermark, people see it, go to their site and maybe buy it (ie, how GE works - "Image (C) DigitalGlobe" etc).

Shoot me an e-mail to [email protected] with a short blurb and your name/location and I'll see what we can do

Edit: Our goal is to make imagery accessible to all so while initially we'd put the imagery up in a World-Wind-compatible format, it's also possible to put it up for online viewing and viewing through GE, among others.

I knew I'd see you pimping world wind here.

Thankfully you've reminded me to re-download world wind.

Beansprout · 26 Feb 2006 at 12:47

Curio said:
Google Earth makes you afraid? You better not look into spy satellites and spy planes then I assure you, the UK has probably been totally mapped out in much higher detail than that for a long, long time. There's probably a Russian satellite counting the change in your pocket right now

Actually, talking of satellites...

That's just imaging satellites, and the larger satellites are military satellites.

Military satellites can't read car numberplates however resolutions of about 5cm are possible I think. Possibly lower.

crunchman said:
I knew I'd see you pimping world wind here.

Thankfully you've reminded me to re-download world wind.

Tehee

- though not just World Wind - we've made other data like next generation Blue Marble available to use in GE and via the WMS standard.

SexyGreyFox · 26 Feb 2006 at 12:55

Thats my house and I can chuck a brick at OCUK from my front door -

The_Dark_Side · 26 Feb 2006 at 12:55

Beansprout said:
Military satellites can't read car numberplates however resolutions of about 5cm are possible I think. Possibly lower.

IIRC you can't really say that for sure.
unless it's changed,the only facts we have are related to the PREVIOUS specifications.it follows that the system that replaced it will have been a significant improvement.

The_Dark_Side · 26 Feb 2006 at 12:57

dmpoole said:
Thats my house and I can chuck a brick at OCUK from my front door -

i'll expect to see you competing at the 2008 olympics then

p4radox · 26 Feb 2006 at 12:58

ajgoodfellow · 26 Feb 2006 at 13:00

My parent's house:

My uni house:

It's odd that my parent's house is at a far better resolution as they live in a small town, but my uni house in the middle of Canterbury is in such a poor resolution

Pickers · 26 Feb 2006 at 13:06

Beansprout said:
For the people who don't have the high-res data for their area....would you like it?

World Wind can almost-certainly get complete coverage of England/Wales/bits of Scotland at 5metres per pixel which is three times the resolution of the low-res areas on Google Earth, but we're also trying to persuade the company to let us get their high-res 0.25-centimetre stuff, too - that's the-same-or-slightly-lower than GE's uber-high-res stuff (which looks about 10cm - 25cm to me), but still easily enough to See Your House (TM). And we wouldn't horribly compress the images like GE, either

If anyone's interested then we need People Power to help persuade the company to agree and speed things up. ie, we show their watermarked imagery to the World Wind userbase with their watermark, people see it, go to their site and maybe buy it (ie, how GE works - "Image (C) DigitalGlobe" etc).

Shoot me an e-mail to [email protected] with a short blurb and your name/location and I'll see what we can do

Edit: Our goal is to make imagery accessible to all so while initially we'd put the imagery up in a World-Wind-compatible format, it's also possible to put it up for online viewing and viewing through GE, among others.

The last time I used world wind, the isles of scilly weren't even there in lowest of low res. I was sad

Abraham · 26 Feb 2006 at 13:18

some(possible a lot) of the pictures are not satellite images, the detailed ones from 6 years ago are those taken as the millenium something orother, cant remem what it was called but the queen commissioned a flyover photograph jobby of the whole country
manchester is detailed but over 6 years old because building has barely started on CoM stadium
struggling to date the pictures of my home(cambridge) i think they're considerably later than 2000, possibly 2002 or there abouts

Greenlizard0 · 26 Feb 2006 at 13:30

Ok this is meeeeeeee. It's the blue dot. Quite odd to find that my post code is located about three streets away! So that's where my mail is going. And round here (Kensington Liverpool), you're not getting it back

Beansprout · 26 Feb 2006 at 13:30

The_Dark_Side said:
IIRC you can't really say that for sure.
unless it's changed,the only facts we have are related to the PREVIOUS specifications.it follows that the system that replaced it will have been a significant improvement.

Depends. This post would disagree. Satellite imagery is very good but to read a license plate from *space* needs a large leap. However, it's probably possible to obtain such a high resolution from low-altitude spy planes (ie drones)

Pickers said:
The last time I used world wind, the isles of scilly weren't even there in lowest of low res. I was sad

You probably saw it a while ago with all the publicity, when the servers died. Much better now

Entire world is there in ~4 Landsat7 datasets. Pop over to the forum if you need help

Abraham said:
some(possible a lot) of the pictures are not satellite images, the detailed ones from 6 years ago are those taken as the millenium something orother, cant remem what it was called but the queen commissioned a flyover photograph jobby of the whole country
manchester is detailed but over 6 years old because building has barely started on CoM stadium
struggling to date the pictures of my home(cambridge) i think they're considerably later than 2000, possibly 2002 or there abouts

Correct. That was the Millenium Map which is held/sold by Getmapping.com:

Getmapping.com plc was established in 1998 as a licensed partner with Ordnance Survey® with the intention of producing the first ever complete, full colour, digital, photographic map of the UK known as the Millenium Map. It is from this considerable new resource that the getmapping products are produced bringing a new level of easily accessible aerial photography to both professional users and the general public.

As far as I know it's just 25cm res of the whole country. This is what we're trying to have made available for free, general watermarked (ie non-commercial, like GE personal) use.

Wyrdo · 26 Feb 2006 at 13:32

Beansprout said:
For the people who don't have the high-res data for their area....would you like it?

World Wind can almost-certainly get complete coverage of England/Wales/bits of Scotland at 5metres per pixel which is three times the resolution of the low-res areas on Google Earth, but we're also trying to persuade the company to let us get their high-res 0.25-centimetre stuff, too - that's the-same-or-slightly-lower than GE's uber-high-res stuff (which looks about 10cm - 25cm to me), but still easily enough to See Your House (TM). And we wouldn't horribly compress the images like GE, either

If anyone's interested then we need People Power to help persuade the company to agree and speed things up. ie, we show their watermarked imagery to the World Wind userbase with their watermark, people see it, go to their site and maybe buy it (ie, how GE works - "Image (C) DigitalGlobe" etc).

Shoot me an e-mail to [email protected] with a short blurb and your name/location and I'll see what we can do

Edit: Our goal is to make imagery accessible to all so while initially we'd put the imagery up in a World-Wind-compatible format, it's also possible to put it up for online viewing and viewing through GE, among others.

Ah haven't used World Wind for ages, decided to download it again but the data seems terrbile

I can't get anywhere near as good as Google Earth for the UK on this

fuz · 26 Feb 2006 at 13:32