[BITList] google earth

[M & E. HENDERSON.]

Colin,

 

Yes I agree with everything that you say. I to have also looked at loads of
friends and relatives homes. While the photo's are coming from the
satellite. No problem. The problem starts when you begin to see the photos
that are taken  from the aeroplane flying hundred of feet above. Then they
have to make the photo's overlapped a bit here and there. When you are
looking at street level they are taken from a van. Naturally they do not to
have the same overlapping problem.

 

Malcolm.

 

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yo malcolm

 

I have lived in >35 abodes all over the world - google earth is spot on with
every one, . as well as the many hundreds of other addresses I have looked
up

 

last week I was looking at a school friends house in york; I have never been
to the house, yet using google street view I could see her front door was
blue,  I could easily read the number on the front door, I could see there
are white lace curtains at the windows, there was a nice yellow privet hedge
[needed trimming] and there was a fine hydrangea in the front garden.
additionally I could see the colour and make of her car - I could see the
yellow number plate but the number is blurred out.

 

I can clearly see the house in lee-on-solent, hampshire  where #1 son was
born, including the number on the gate. The gold fish pond in the back yard
which I cleaned out is no longer there.

 

I can see the name and number on the apartment we lived in by the yacht
harbour [Tr. Akti Moutsopoulou] in Piraeus, Greece.

 

The same thing for our apartment in Kobe, Japan - our balcony on the 5th
floor is clearly visible.

 

Need I go on.

 

Of the millions and millions of buildings in the world, you and hugh have
managed to find a couple of anomalies with the addresses.

to me that does not warrant labeling google earth not accurate - quite the
opposite.

 

I was under the impression that google earth is satellite photograph based -
could it be that the photographs are not accurate? 

 

colin t

 

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Colin, 

I have two relatives, one in Gloucester and one in Warrington and neither of
them are not where their homes are correctly shown.

Malcolm. 

 

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hugh

there are millions and millions of addresses in google earth, you have found
a couple are not correct, ergo google earth is not an accurate tool!. 

The laddy doth protest too much, methinks.

I use it daily, have looked up addresses all over the world [including
scotland] and am more than happy with the accuracy there of.

colin t

 

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