I'm not sure if it's cool or disturbing that I was able to recon for centerline monuments boxes using Google Earth's Bird's Eye View to quote a job.
When I can't pick them out on the satellite view, I can often see them in Street View. It's very handy for that.
There is much better imagery available than what Google is using in most areas.
Clink to center, then use the slider to zoom in.
I believe Bing maps is the source.
If you print screen the image, crop...then take an overlapping screen shot...ect.ect you can paste them together very easily in Microsoft ICE (drag and drop). I then roughly georeference the image as a backdrop for some of my surveys.
JRL
> There is much better imagery available than what Google is using in most areas.
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> Flash Earth
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> Clink to center, then use the slider to zoom in.
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> I believe Bing maps is the source.
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> If you print screen the image, crop...then take an overlapping screen shot...ect.ect you can paste them together very easily in Microsoft ICE (drag and drop). I then roughly georeference the image as a backdrop for some of my surveys.
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> JRL
I like the Flash Earth interface, kind of nice.
Unfortunately the images are a few years older than Google Earth for my area... and the quality is significantly less too, very similar (if not the same) as the GE Historical images.
The Flash Earth imagery isn't very good in my area, either. Here's a Flash Earth shot of a nearby cul-de-sac:
You can see the manholes, but the monument well isn't visible.
Here's the same spot in Google Earth:
The well is clearly visible just north of the southerly manhole.
Here's the Google Earth Street View image (looking south):
Again, the monument well is easy to spot.
Bidding on a 6 mile road project, company owner wants to know if I can put the centerline on Google Map so he can walk out there with his Ipad and find it (there's nothing on the ground, it runs across a bunch of fields and hills). It's on project coordinates scaled from SPC, so I created a csv file of the centerline I had created in Terramodel, exported it to Excel, scaled the coordinates to SPC, imported those into CorpsCon, and sent the lat-longs to one of the office guys familiar with google maps (I never use it). He input the points somehow and connected them and put it on the Ipad. The bridge guy wanted it on his iphone, so he took what the other guy created, downladed an ap, and was able to go out and find the bridge and culvert locations.
Uh.....is that some of that ESRI/GIS/NSPS stuff that Phipps fellow was hollerin' 'bout? ipad? iphone? How 'bout idontgetit? I thought cvs was a drug store. Are criminal Marines sentenced to be Corpscons?
I guess the existing image quality depends on the area and how populated it is.
The Bing stuff is really nice compared to what we are used to around here.
JRL
Just imagine what some feller....
who ain't an ole country hick like me would have said. LOL
Didn't realize how it sounded til you pointed it out.