Sorry if this has already been covered, but anybody playing with the historic imagery tool in Google Earth? What easy access to imagery over the last 20+ years. Not sure how far they will work to take back the imagery, but its pretty awesome.
On a side note, I am also pretty impressed with the free on the fly imagery and data available with Arc 10.
> Sorry if this has already been covered, but anybody playing with the historic imagery tool in Google Earth? What easy access to imagery over the last 20+ years. Not sure how far they will work to take back the imagery, but its pretty awesome.
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> On a side note, I am also pretty impressed with the free on the fly imagery and data available with Arc 10.
Love Goog Earth!! I didn't know it allows you to go back 20 years??? Now I want to play with it again and check this out.
I couldn't ever get that flight similator thing to work. I kept crashing. Needless to say I'll never make it as a pilot. 🙁
I was just checking t out again, and I noticed that they had a new flight that showed my house. The new fence and the 2 trees that we planted in the back yard show up. We live in a relative new house and it is interesting to see how the neighborhood has developed over the last 20 years. i can see that shortly after the house was built, the little pine thicket behind our house was not there and now you can see how much it has grown. Google Earth is a neat tool.
I just wish their registration was as good as the resolution. You can see serious differences between the alignment of the images in the same place at different dates, and none of them are necessarily within 50 feet of matching a generally used datum.
