Elsuperbob Member Username: Elsuperbob
Post Number: 87 Registered: 03-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 6:03 pm: | |
I don't know if anyone noticed but they've finally updated the GoogleEarth images of Detroit. They finally have a completed Campus Martius and have extended the highly detailed image data out to Clark Park and Mt. Elliot. And it's perfect timing. I just pulled an image off of there the other day for a school project and now noticed it in higher detail. They did not update it yet at maps.google.com, however. |
Gsgeorge Member Username: Gsgeorge
Post Number: 270 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 6:20 pm: | |
yass! finally! |
Hunchentoot Member Username: Hunchentoot
Post Number: 54 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 6:24 pm: | |
Hooray!! |
Gsgeorge Member Username: Gsgeorge
Post Number: 271 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 6:30 pm: | |
P.s. Campus Martius looks GREAT, its full of people!! check it out:
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Gsgeorge Member Username: Gsgeorge
Post Number: 272 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 6:40 pm: | |
Also Ann Arbor has been updated to super-hi res, looks like 1 ft resolution. The diag. Someone's standing by the M (see their shadow?)
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Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 3595 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 7:05 pm: | |
Has anyone found the boundaries of this new update yet? I wonder if they archive the old images? The one beef I have about Google Earth is that you can't determine the age of any particular part of the image. Or have I missed the addition of that feature? |
Leland_palmer Member Username: Leland_palmer
Post Number: 404 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 7:53 pm: | |
If you zoom out it looks like it is roughly bounded by 696, 275 and the river going south to the southern tip of Grosse Ile. |
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 3599 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 9:01 pm: | |
I think some freighters disappeared. I like to break things. I used to use the mouse wheel to plummet down into Google Earth from great altitudes at great speed to crash through into the underground of Detroit. This time the same technique caused an inverted image (note the sky at the bottom of this image):
It's as if my tilted aircraft, flying toward Windsor, rolled 180°. |
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 3600 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 9:10 pm: | |
Here's Compuware in the same upside-down mode:
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Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 3601 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 9:19 pm: | |
Michigan from the same upside-down angle:
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Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 324 Registered: 09-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 9:21 pm: | |
Ok Jimaz, thank you. We can go see them ourselves if we wanted. |
Detroit313 Member Username: Detroit313
Post Number: 522 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 10:45 pm: | |
SWEET! <313> |
Rbdetsport Member Username: Rbdetsport
Post Number: 398 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 11:07 pm: | |
Checkout the new riverfront and how different brush park is. |
Esp Member Username: Esp
Post Number: 104 Registered: 09-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 11:15 pm: | |
I still can't get my mouse wheel to do that. Damn. |
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 3604 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 11:22 pm: | |
I have a really fast VAIO and I have to keep trying to get even that far. It's fun to break things. |
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 3605 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 11:26 pm: | |
Here's the Guardian from below:
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Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 3606 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 11:33 pm: | |
Woodward from below:
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Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 3607 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 11:43 pm: | |
The fact that there's an angle between "Woodward" and "Ave." there is intriguing. Why would a graphical effect be correllated to a word break? |
Dannyv Member Username: Dannyv
Post Number: 31 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 - 11:59 pm: | |
No update on west Westland, Newburgh/Cherry Hill |
Gsgeorge Member Username: Gsgeorge
Post Number: 275 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 12:00 am: | |
jimaz, what's the deal? am i missing something? |
Fareastsider Member Username: Fareastsider
Post Number: 654 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 12:06 am: | |
maps.live has real recent images of south east Michigan less than a year old north of the city. |
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz
Post Number: 3608 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 12:21 am: | |
Gsgeorge, I hold no secrets. If I had a clue I'd tell it. Google Earth is weird. Just pound it until it breaks, that's all I do. |
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289
Post Number: 28 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 2:15 am: | |
cherry hill& newburg,new images, does that mean the truck i sold 3yrs ago isn,t in front of my parents house? |
Dnvn522 Member Username: Dnvn522
Post Number: 296 Registered: 11-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 7:43 am: | |
quote:maps.live has real recent images of south east Michigan less than a year old north of the city. I really like their new 3D buildings too.
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The_ed Member Username: The_ed
Post Number: 271 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 11:03 am: | |
The Diag in Ann Arbor...man, it really brings back memories....I used to go there on April first for many, many years....it was an ocean of paranoid faces looking around...... |
Tigersfan9 Member Username: Tigersfan9
Post Number: 137 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 11:20 am: | |
Is there any way to do this without downloading the Google Earth program, i.e. via Google Maps? |
Vetalalumni Member Username: Vetalalumni
Post Number: 771 Registered: 05-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 11:25 am: | |
Jimaz, sounds like you need to be on staff at Google in the Quality Assurance department. Your "I like to break things" enthusiasm bodes well in the QA field. You may have exposed a reliability deficiency. |
Bobj Member Username: Bobj
Post Number: 2636 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 11:31 am: | |
I think I can see myself washing my car in my driveway with these new shots!! Very cool! |
Chitaku Member Username: Chitaku
Post Number: 1669 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 11:57 am: | |
if you look at the rose bowl it has texas vs michigan on the field |
The_ed Member Username: The_ed
Post Number: 284 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 12:58 pm: | |
If you GoogleEarth Rachel, Nevada, you'll get to see the giant Colonel Sanders "Kentucky Fried Chicken reckons it's the first company whose logo is visible from space after piecing together a huge mosaic of Colonel Sanders in the Nevada desert. The pic of the Colonel comprises 65,000 one-foot-square painted tiles laid out on a plot near Rachel, Nevada." |
The_ed Member Username: The_ed
Post Number: 285 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 1:02 pm: | |
Chitaku "if you look at the rose bowl it has texas vs michigan on the field" I see TEXAS and USC on the field!? |
Spacemonkey Member Username: Spacemonkey
Post Number: 244 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 1:16 pm: | |
How come I don't see any people? |
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 333 Registered: 09-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 1:17 pm: | |
The_ed, you're making me very hungry at the moment. I would cry too because there's nothing good here to eat. |
The_ed Member Username: The_ed
Post Number: 289 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 1:18 pm: | |
Spacemonkey: "How come I don't see any people?" Because everybody was inside at the time. |
Fjw718 Member Username: Fjw718
Post Number: 148 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 1:25 pm: | |
who wants to see more jimaz upside down pics? ? ? ? ? ? |
The_ed Member Username: The_ed
Post Number: 295 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 1:34 pm: | |
Detroitrise "The_ed, you're making me very hungry at the moment. I would cry too because there's nothing good here to eat." I'm leaving work in one hour so that I can bake a lasagna for dinner. YUMMM! (sorry Detroitrise |
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 1847 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 3:19 pm: | |
You can even see the boulevard on Livernois finally!! |
Dnvn522 Member Username: Dnvn522
Post Number: 297 Registered: 11-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 4:08 pm: | |
quote:first company whose logo is visible from space That's pretty vague since the Ford logo on top of Ford Field has been visible for a while. |
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 1848 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 4:14 pm: | |
LOL, I just typed in "ford field" in google earth--it doesn't being you to the right ford field... |
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 1850 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 4:20 pm: | |
and then ironically, a "Pontiac Silverdome" search does take you to the Pontiac Silverdome . |
Charlottepaul Member Username: Charlottepaul
Post Number: 1851 Registered: 10-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 4:24 pm: | |
and at least google earth still lists the population of Detroit at 951270. |
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 345 Registered: 09-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 4:25 pm: | |
Of course, when you Google anything you can find it. I bet if you Google your names you will find info on yourselves. Anyway, Viacom can go to hell picking on poor Google. |
Fareastsider Member Username: Fareastsider
Post Number: 658 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 1:20 am: | |
Looks like the radio control plane flyers are in Rouge Park! |
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk
Post Number: 982 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Monday, October 29, 2007 - 4:52 am: | |
About time. They still had the Statler Hotel in the last one. |
Fareastsider Member Username: Fareastsider
Post Number: 664 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 7:53 am: | |
Where the seam is between the new and old pics just north of 12 mile it is interesting to see the subdivision being built but then suddenly stop. The new building on Van Dyke on the GM tech center is half complete and half under construction! |
Raptor56 Member Username: Raptor56
Post Number: 156 Registered: 05-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 11:19 am: | |
Looks like they caught Michigan Stadium under construction. http://maps.google.com/maps?f= q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&t type=&q=michigan+stadium&sll=4 2.265456,-83.747932&sspn=0.002 366,0.003723&ie=UTF8&ll=42.266 026,-83.748111&spn=0.001183,0. 001861&t=h&z=19&om=1 |
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 447 Registered: 09-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2007 - 11:22 am: | |
I have a question. Why aren't all my 3D buildings loading like Dnvn522's earlier in the thread? I only get the Penobscot, Comerica, RenCen, Broderick, and Book-Cadillac Towers (and MCS and Tiger Stadium). |
Gwuebben Member Username: Gwuebben
Post Number: 13 Registered: 01-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, November 07, 2007 - 4:21 pm: | |
Same question as Detroitrise. And the quality of my models is horrible in comparison to his. |