Google Earth in the North West

il gatto

Just to let people know that parts of Sligo, North Leitrim and North Roscommon have recently been photographed properly on Google Earth. Heretofore only a bit of West Cavan and Central Fermanagh were mapped properly in the region. It includes Sligo town (City:rolleyes: ), Dromaheir, Riverstown, Boyle, Ballyfarnon, Keadue, Rosses Point, Collooney and Ballysadare.
If you haven't tried Google Earth, I recommend taking a look at it. The program is a free download, but you must be online to view it. The entire earth photographed from space, to some degree of clarity (look for darker rectangles). It's truly fascinating, and I've wasted many hours playing with it.

Carrickman

il gatto wrote:

It's truly fascinating, and I've wasted many hours playing with it.

Same here great yoke, great pictures of US cities the "ground zero" shot really shows how big the site where the towers were really was.

gustavo

How different would it look to Google Maps?

Gillie

Delighted! Off to Download it

Gillie

Amazing! I can see my house! Finally.

YeatsCounty

gustavo wrote:

How different would it look to Google Maps?

The Google Maps images actually look clearer than their Google Earth counterparts IMO.

(Yes, I know that it's the same image used for both programs.)

il gatto

They're a little clearer alright, but I think the usability of Google Earth makes it much better.

bettlebrox

U can see the cut-off right about here:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=ireland&ie=UTF8&z=13&ll=54.323632,-8.467541&spn=0.042048,0.21698&t=h&om=1

JIZZLORD

i succeded in making my parents paranoid when i showed them our house

trilo

Just had a look at Sligo, unfortunately at the moment it is a bit too cloudly, so can't really see much.

muffler

trilo wrote:

Just had a look at Sligo, unfortunately at the moment it is a bit too cloudly, so can't really see much.

Not as bad as the clump of cloud covering a large wallop of Donegal

Paddy20

muffler wrote:

Not as bad as the clump of cloud covering a large wallop of Donegal

Are the Twin-Towns clearly visible on this Google Earth, which I have been told used to be a U.S. spy satellite ?...

P. :cool:

muffler

Paddy20 wrote:

Are the Twin-Towns clearly visible on this Google Earth

Sadly no

mackerski

gustavo wrote:

How different would it look to Google Maps?

Google Earth is a 3D environment where you can choose your viewpoint freely. So it resembles Google Maps really closely until you discover the tilt option - afterwards the comparison doesn't really arise.

Dermot

bettlebrox

I just found the Tilt option. It really does give a different perspective.

See the 2 images (if they attached). 1st is looking North from near Lough Eske towards the Gap. The other is the regular view.

Paddy20

bettlebrox wrote:

I just found the Tilt option. It really does give a different perspective.

See the 2 images (if they attached). 1st is looking North from near Lough Eske towards the Gap. The other is the regular view.

Thanks beetlebrox,

However they are still 'out of focus' and totally unsatisfactory. Still what else can we expect from Yanks ?..

P. :cool:

bettlebrox

Paddy20 wrote:

Thanks beetlebrox,

Your welcome Paddy.

Paddy20 wrote:

However they are still 'out of focus' and totally unsatisfactory. Still what else can we expect from Yanks ?..

P. :cool:

Hard to tell if your joking or serious.

But, they do have a few high quality sections in Ireland. One being right on the border around Pettigo (which they labeled as Kesh :rolleyes: ) . Plus, getting imagery of this quality must be expensive, they are Yanks, and a lot of the US isn't of the best quality.

il gatto

It's a work in progress. They're starting with the more densely populated areas and a few random ones (where their great grandaddy came from? ). Dublin, Cork, Belfast, Galway and Limerick have been done in detail for ages. Sligo has very recently been done. The most glaring omission is Derry. In the next year or so, I think we can expect all of Ireland to be done properly (a la Germany). There are still huge parts of Britain, France, Italy, Spain and even the U.S. still not done properly. I believe Google buy the images as they become available from satellite imaging companies. I suppose they need to be looking at the area for some reason, and if the weather is very clear, with the exception of the odd cloud, they photo it and offer the image to Google.

Goodluck2me

one of the best things you can see on google maps is Area 52. its a place that wasnt suppposed to exist untill a few geeks in america found it! major controversy about it in america.

Gillie

Don't you mean Area 51?

il gatto

Gillie wrote:

Don't you mean Area 51?

No. I'll bet it's somewhere so secret, no one has ever heard of it. So secret, even the aliens couldn't find it.:D

Gillie

goodluck2me wrote:

one of the best things you can see on google maps is Area 52. its a place that wasnt suppposed to exist untill a few geeks in america found it! major controversy about it in america.

To be fair. Everyone knew it existed and there is photo's of it before now.
The USAF say its merely an Airforce base but skeptics question why they have a Runway that is over 4km in length.
They wonder what kind of aircraft requires such a huge runway.

Keep watching the Skies!:D

Fracture

I had a look for area51 in it before but all ya can see is a cloud/desert, they obviously wont show that on google earth, like imagine the tilt option work there, you could basically see everything.

smashey

I thought the title of this thread was Google in the North West and in my ignorance assumed this to be the North West of Ireland.:rolleyes:

muffler

smashey wrote:

I thought the title of this thread was Google in the North West and in my ignorance assumed this to be the North West of Ireland.:rolleyes:

You are indeed correct sir. You are ignorent

Hadn't much interest in this thread as such but smashey is right --- stay on topic lads. There is a google earth forum for the likes of the comments posted above