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# Hate Google Earth.
Bagdad appears at a higher res than my town!

(I helped save b3ta! JollyJack - a stench from the past, Fri 20 Jan 2006, 15:16, archived)
# Yeah,
but has your town been thoroughly satellite mapped in preparation for air strikes?
(I helped save b3ta! Damien's Hearse, Fri 20 Jan 2006, 15:18, archived)
# Point.
....I am now glad.
(I helped save b3ta! JollyJack - a stench from the past, Fri 20 Jan 2006, 15:19, archived)
# Unless you live in Launceston
*readies strikeforce*
(I helped save b3ta! Damien's Hearse, Fri 20 Jan 2006, 15:20, archived)
# heh I just have this image of
missles plotted by Google maps. i do hear the API is pretty good.

my town looks pretty good
(I helped save b3ta! MrA, Fri 20 Jan 2006, 15:19, archived)
#
thats the only way congleton could look good!
(I helped save b3ta! firstinch returns after about 10yrs, Fri 20 Jan 2006, 15:33, archived)
# hehe true
(I helped save b3ta! MrA, Fri 20 Jan 2006, 15:34, archived)
# the whole of lincolnshire is a green blur
yours is much better than mine :(
(I helped save b3ta! TopUpTheTea you ain't seen me, right?, Fri 20 Jan 2006, 15:18, archived)
# no
that close to Birmingham, everything looks fuzzy . . .


(I helped save b3ta! Sir Aunty Grampa Dave the Hat - enjoying a post-meridian muncheon - Ta! Cannaoogim!?, Fri 20 Jan 2006, 15:19, archived)
# hopefully soon
they'll get some better photos of rural england.
(I helped save b3ta! Sunshine Elephant, Fri 20 Jan 2006, 15:19, archived)
# Or just link to MultiMap's
theirs aren't too bad
(I helped save b3ta! Ptolemy the man with the silent pea, Fri 20 Jan 2006, 15:26, archived)
# If we could send the telescope a long, long way away at a speed faster than light
we could get photos of the ancient world.

Great.
(I helped save b3ta! Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Fri 20 Jan 2006, 15:28, archived)
# It's quite random
one of the few places in scotland that has a good resolution is the tiny village i grew up in

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=congleton&btnG=Search&ll=53.163961,-2.210011&spn=0.018319,0.054245&t=k
(I helped save b3ta! wefbhweiufhweiu party, Fri 20 Jan 2006, 15:22, archived)
# you don't fool me
that's congleton
(I helped save b3ta! alexturgid has no sig, Fri 20 Jan 2006, 16:02, archived)
# I tried to find my old student house in Middlesbrough-
it's reasonably high-res until just before it.
CONSPIRACY!
(I helped save b3ta! Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Fri 20 Jan 2006, 15:25, archived)
# Be very glad.
It means King George is not looking at you.
(I helped save b3ta! cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Fri 20 Jan 2006, 15:27, archived)
#
the whole of the UK needs remapping, as most of it is atleast 3yrs old. No Manchester Stadium, Still the Old Wembley, and no AShburton Grove.
(I helped save b3ta! firstinch returns after about 10yrs, Fri 20 Jan 2006, 15:32, archived)
# yeah it's terrible
my first car is parked on my drive

I DON'T EVEN OWN A CAR ANYMORE
(I helped save b3ta! GrandmaOfShoes, Fri 20 Jan 2006, 15:46, archived)
#
exactly. If their gonna do it, you may as well do it right. Why can't they just allow us to control the satellite thingies via the interweb, and look where we like, when we want?!
(I helped save b3ta! firstinch returns after about 10yrs, Fri 20 Jan 2006, 15:53, archived)
# www.googleearthhacks.com
has downloads of all the newer places, and cool stuff like underground maps
(I helped save b3ta! I could eat the scabs off a dead dog That was a brand new hat, Fri 20 Jan 2006, 16:44, archived)
# Edinburgh
Outskirts: high res
Whole of city: low res.

Shite!
(I helped save b3ta! drunkenoaf, Fri 20 Jan 2006, 15:35, archived)
# i can see my house and garden on google earth
however it was taken before i bought the house so there is a different car in the drive.

i've just seen my old uni house and i can makeout the tarpalin we put over a skate ramp we built in the back garden.
(I helped save b3ta! Thor_sonofodin has done things, terrible things on, Fri 20 Jan 2006, 15:43, archived)