There is still relatively little high res imagery of Australia, there’s even less that covers major airports and regional airports… well, they’re hard to find. All the same, it’s a bit disappointing when the US has so many planes in flight, that I could only find this one, just off Point Cook, Victoria. We actually …
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birth pains of a nation…
Of course, I’m still finding interesting things on google maps, but every now and then you stumble across something that is more than just an image. You see, the high-res photos on google are (we’re told) up to 3 years old, the medium res ones are probably more… they are little snapshots of history. On …
amazing google sights…
Yeah, I’m still hooked on Google maps, so I’m going to risk boring you with a few more great spots to visit. First, there’s this hot air balloon over Berlin. Then there are some enormous fires in Siberia. Finally – it’s virtually impossible to spot individual people on these maps, but a crowd is pretty …
the ‘mighty’ snowy…
OK, next to the world’s big rivers it’s just a trickle, but it’s our trickle! The Snowy River flows from the highest mountains in the country down to the sea near Orbost. With all the controversy about river levels and ‘environmental’ flows, it’s heartening to see that, at least when this picture was taken, it’s …
pyramids
There’s something a bit circular about looking at an ancient relic like the Great Pyramid of Gizeh through the magic of a technology as new as this.
we’ve got high res!
Yippee!!… Google Maps have gone global – there are patches of high res photography scattered all over Australia and other non-US bits! So, much as I love (and will continue to patronise) googlesightseeing, I want to start my own archive of great locations. Australia-centric, but not exclusive. Just to kick it off, I’m starting with …
that eye in the sky
I admit it, I’m a bit of a map nerd… I just love ’em – the more detail the better. You can learn a lot about a place just by looking at a map. You can learn even more by looking at an aerial photograph, and google maps has got lots of them! So far, …