Where on Google Earth am I?

[squashedfrog1]

popes eye

[martrix]

OK, I will go. How about a rule...Must be between 5000-6000ft elevation?


1st Clue. South East NSW.

[silentC]

Mate too easy. Pambula River mouth and part of Pambula Beach. I'm sitting 5 km away from it right now...

And you can see my old house in it too...

[Wood Butcher]

Can we add another rule that photo must be orientated so the top is north?

[silentC]

That one is...

[martrix]

Mate too easy. Pambula River mouth and part of Pambula Beach. I'm sitting 5 km away from it right now...

And you can see my old house in it too...

Thought you might get that. I used to go there on holidays as a kid, loved it. There was also a problem with thieves in the caravan park. Stole our surfing gear.

Can we add another rule that photo must be orientated so the top is north?

Yep good point. For the record mine was pointing North.

SilentC, you're up.

[silentC]

thieves in the caravan park

I thought you were going to complain about the site fees they charge. They're the real thieves!!

OK, coming up, just trying to find somewhere that has a decent overhead photo in google maps.

[silentC]

OK, another one on the South East coast of Australia. Further south than the last one.

Have to leave you with it, finished work for the evening.

[Grunt]

Lakes Entrance

[joe greiner]

A little farther west. Paynesville. Howzat for long-distance joggerphy?

Joe

[Mirboo]

Paynesville, Raymond Island, Lake Victoria and Metung are all in view in the picture. These places are all on the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria.

[Mirboo]

Not a bad effort Joe. I had the benefit of growing up in Gippsland and going on a school camp a couple of times at a place on Duck Arm which is also in SilentC's picture.

[silentC]

Ian's answer was more complete but I think we should give it to Joe, for his long distance effort.

I used to spend a fair bit of time around there as a kid. Had an uncle and aunty at Eagle Point, which is also in the picture just behind that long spit that almost cuts Lake Victoria in half. We used to go duck shooting out in the lake. When the sea levels rise, it will all be gone

Over to you Joe.

[joe greiner]

Wish I could. But this ol' steam-powered compu-duh-r and dialup connection can't handle it. And the OS still needs a few days worth of repairs after getting hosed by a trojan a while back. The OS problem alone is almost worth buying a new machine, but the cost of high-speed connection doesn't thrill me yet.

I've seen the Google Earth stuff on a friend's machine, and it's quite impressive. One pecularity it has is that aerial photos are based on overlapping views from discrete locations. (I used to deal with aerial photos in civil engineering practice.) Due to parallax, a computed oblique view from the South (say) can depict the North face of a tall building. I understand a newer version will actually create a 3D model, and that oddity won't occur.

For the nonce, I'm pretty much stuck with MS Terraserver; and I think we only have it for USA (derived from USGS aerials and topo maps).

Best regards, and thanks for the vote.

Joe

[silentC]

Try maps.google.com. It's all browser based and what I use. Same images as Goggle Earth but you don't need to download their software. Click Satellite in the top right to get the aerial photos.