Towertalk
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [TowerTalk] Interesting URL

To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Interesting URL
From: "Dan Kovatch" <w8car@buckeye-express.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 19:16:11 -0400
List-post: <mailto:towertalk@contesting.com>
Both Google maps and Zillo have my house on the wrong side of the street. 
Zillo gives a nice shot of the local High School and a neighbors house but 
not mine. Live.Local.com  gives nice fly by aerial pics with good enough 
resolution to see antennas.

Dan
W8CAR
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604" <faunt@panix.com>
To: <k0rc@pclink.com>
Cc: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Interesting URL


> That's interesting.  That's the first map I've seen that gets the
> location correct, instead of at the other end of the block.
>
> However, this one is very low-resolution compared to Google Earth,
> where you can see the shadows of the roof tower, beam and satellite
> array.
>
> 73, doug
>
>   From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Robert_Chudek_-_K=D8RC?= <k0rc@citlink.net>
>   Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 08:53:11 -0500
>
>   Thanks Steve,
>
>   Yeah, the photo of my property has better resolution than Google. It 
> appears the dollar figure is based on 2-year old county tax records.
>
>   73 de Bob - K0RC in MN
>
>
>   Message: 9
>   Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 05:25:38 -0700 (PDT)
>   From: GALE STEWARD <k3nd@yahoo.com>
>   Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Interesting URL
>   To: towertalk reflector <towertalk@contesting.com>
>   Message-ID: <20061005122538.15671.qmail@web50702.mail.yahoo.com>
>   Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>
>   Here's another site. You type in the address and zip
>   code and it comes up with an ariel pic. Since it's
>   basically a real estate site, it shows the priced of
>   the property (based on ?). The arial shots are pretty
>   good and is the pix are current, at least within the
>   last two years or so at my QTH.
>
>   73, Stew K3ND
>
>   http://www.zillow.com
>
>
>   --- Robert Chudek - K?RC <k0rc@citlink.net> wrote:
>
>   > Gene,
>   >
>   > I checked my QTH and I'm not there!!! :-)  The
>   > aerial scan used for my area is over 15 years old.
>   > But it's interesting to see what the property looked
>   > like prior to being developed.
>   >
>   > I use Google Earth. Their satellite images are more
>   > up to date and the controls allow you to "fly" along
>   > a route. If you haven't see Google Earth, check it
>   > out.  http://earth.google.com/  The MSN site is
>   > another Microsoft "Me Too" entry into world mapping.
>   >
>   > 73 de Bob - K?RC in MN
>   >
>   >
>   > Message: 6
>   > Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 05:27:23 +0000
>   > From: ersmar@comcast.net
>   > Subject: [TowerTalk] Interesting URL
>   > To: towertalk@contesting.com
>   > Message-ID:
>   >
> 
> <100420060527.23669.4523463B000AC74600005C7522064246139D0E039C9D0A@comcast.net>
>   >
>   >
>   > TT:
>   >
>   >       I found this URL http://local.live.com  on
>   > this evening's ARRL Contest Rate Sheet.  If you plug
>   > in my address (below) you'll see an initial aerial
>   > view of my house, including the Trylon tower,
>   > Bencher Skyhawk and D40 dipole antennas.  My shack
>   > window is on the ground floor to the right of the
>   > back of the house.  The large oak tree to the right
>   > of the house is the anchor for my erstwhile inverted
>   > L antenna.
>   >
>   >       Other views, invoked by clicking on the
>   > compass icon, even show the large concrete base for
>   > the tower.
>   >
>   >      Cool - but scary that such views are available.
>   >
>   >
>   > 73 de
>   > Gene Smar  AD3F
>   > 16900 Governors Way
>   > Rockville, MD  20853
>   >
>   >  P.S  The pushpin showing my house's location on the
>   > map is actually in the middle of the street in front
>   > of my house.
>   _______________________________________________
>
>
>
>   _______________________________________________
>   TowerTalk mailing list
>   TowerTalk@contesting.com
>   http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
>
> _______________________________________________
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> TowerTalk mailing list
> TowerTalk@contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk 

_______________________________________________



_______________________________________________
TowerTalk mailing list
TowerTalk@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>