Google Earthery
 

Is anyone else addicted to Google Earth?

Have you found anything interesting?

Here are a few of my recent discoveries:

12 10 41 n 68 56 28w - Possibly the worlds largest brothel. Try and guess where it is before you look.

12 09 47 n 68 17 06 w - Who knew? Scientology has their own cruise ship

34 22 29 s 115 08 12 e - Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse. As far as you can get from my house and still be on land.

To use view these locations in Google Earth just paste them into the "Fly to" box, click on the spyglass and then zoom in on the cross hairs if need be.

I have so many locations to share, but I'll have to wait till I get home tonight. Great Thread Idea !!! :snap:

How is this:

21 50 34.53s 35 27 00.28e

For a Hi-res spot? (Zoom in till you see it)

I wonder how long if ever it will be before the entire planet is available at this res.

That one is really odd. A Hi-Res section out in the middle of a bunch of really low res coastline. How'd that happen?

It is part of a National Geographic project: The Africa Megaflyover If you zoom out some you can see other red airplane icons that mark these spots.

Damn, just based on the coordinates I guessed Venezuela. So very close.

So what's up in Sydney? I went tooling around White Bay today. Looking at the possible Disney site (it looks a bit small for a park)

As I looked around a bit at the various housing areas I noticed something odd. There are VERY few swimming pools in Sydney. Why is that?

Probably because they've got awesome beaches all around?

Miami, SoCal, Hawaii for gods sake.... They all seem to have a much higher occurence of pools in my very unofficial survey.

I'm wondering if the price of municipal water is significantly higher in Sydney than other areas and how that might impact things. Cobbling together some numbers from disparate sources I am finding a rate of about $1.32/kL for water in Sydney and $0.92/kL in LA (but I'm not confident with the numbers).