Check out the UP classification yard in North Platte, NE.
Did anybody notice under examples one of them is 10 Market st.
Not quite 1 but pretty darn close.
Impressive!
Mook, they put me in the middle of the street, too, and pointed to a house two doors up the block from mine.
Then I scrolled up to the north of my house toward the tracks, and followed them through our area. It was unbelievable how many trains they caught (would all of these pictures have been taken at roughly the same time?)! It’s possible to date these to a couple of years ago, because the shoofly around a grade-separation project, since completed, is shown.
Not bad maps,but couldn’t see our house. But it did list a place that is approx.3 doors from us.
Impressive - plus it makes North Platte look very, very large! Gotta go look at the Lincoln yards!
Very nice. I can see RR cars in the photos of Cajon pass. And I can see my house. But on TerraServer, I could see my house so close I was able, from the pattern of cars parked there, to tell what day of the week the photo was taken and what time of day it was.
Gone is the Espee, but not forgotten. I think the building that is marked in the satellite photo is the former home of the Espee and is really No. ONE Market.
Jim
I am a huge Terra Server fan, but this could really be great. My area does not yet have the detailed photo, but what i saw was really great for Chicago.
Also, the ability to type in a restaurant or any other locale and up it comes…is great.
this could seriously impact my productivity…I could spend all day on this.
ed
I’m impressed. But the only weird thing is, I can see one black and 2 lighter dots in my driveway, which are my cars, and My pool out back. Next it’ll be people’s faces, license plates, or even the painschemes of equipment in your favorite yard[:O]
Just checked out a city in Saskatchewan on google maps,seems they are using maps issued for the selling of land in the late 1880’s, most of the streets were strictly speculation, a lot of the streets were never built or even recorded, where would they get this information??? I wonder how many satellites there were in 1887. what’s going on here???
The joys of Tiger type census maps…Paper streets are platted in government/ provincial/county files. GIS is just like a bunch of other computer data. Garbage In = Garbage Out[:D][:D][:D] Alot of the GIS game is the buying and selling of credible info.
Looks like google got some bad old cadastre, never field checked.
While highly detailed in some city areas, I find the map quite worthless when it comes to smaller town areas. Understandably, they haven’t taken detailed satellite shots of everything, but some of the areas they did, I have to wonder, “why?” For instance, St. Cloud gets the Fuzz while a portion of Monticello, MN and adjoining farmland gets superdetail.
Agreed. It is useless for my area of interest. Perhaps they will improve it in the future, but for now, the zoom into the mountainous areas of the Adirondacks doesn’t come close to that of Terraserver. Color aside, it has a very long way to go to rival terraserver.
Wayne
There are worse problems with it as currently designed –
A quick test from my present to my old address has the ‘best’ route between Memphis and Englewood, NJ routed through West Virginia, for heaven’s sake, and then via the Beltway and New Jersey Turnpike. Mountains up the wazoo, then tolls up the wazoo, and 56 miles longer to boot! I can’t figure out what they’re thinking…
Then I try to pick up 51 Prospect in Princeton, and no matter what I do it goes to South Brunswick. No excuse for this other than idiots. None.
Even for beta software, this is ridiculous. The thing that really bothers me is that it’s a crapshoot whether or not stuff like this gets fixed. Yes, it’s nice to have satellite pix, and yes, it loads really fast. But that’s simple 21st-century server-side functionality. Be nice for Google to tie into all these municipality and county GIS systems as well as satellite imaging – but I’d almost bet there will be some kind of ‘premium’ $$$ access charges by the time that happens.
Overmod: Now you start to understand why surveyors look at GIS people with a jaundiced view when watching GIS folks market their product.
…My only try with it so far was to put in my address and it rather quickly brought it up but, it was not close enough to be useful…and I couldn’t bring it up any closer. On the other hand, TerraServer will go down to about 1 meter resolution…At least it did the last I tried it. If my car would have been sitting in the dirveway…I would have been able to see it but I couldn’t even distinguish our home with the Google unit…Just the arrow pointing to where it is…
Its a cool website. Although when looking at the railroad names on the map are out of date. Penn central still exist on the maps.
One area I looked at in both Google and Terra Server’s “Urban Areas” has the same train in the exact same place. Appearently they used the same photographs, only the :“Urban Areas” allows one to zoom in closer. This would mean that if Terra Server only have “Aerial Photograph” available for an area then Google’s photograph would be newer, probably the same for maps.
Cajon Pass is pretty impressive, but the photo changes half way down a train. Still , you can count the cars! They don’t have any detail photos of Tehachapi yet, although you can just make out the loop on the big picture.
Peter
That North Platte yard was mind blowng. Good greif…
johnk