What is/are the site(s) that provide high resolution photos of earth from satellites. Say you wanted to compare a nautical or Geological survay map of a coastal marsh with an actual photo of the same marsh. Thanks, Chuck Sutherland skimmer_at_mail3.enter.net *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
At 12:18 PM 12/20/01 +0000, skimmer_at_mail3.enter.net wrote: >What is/are the site(s) that provide high resolution photos of earth >from satellites. Say you wanted to compare a nautical or Geological >survay map of a coastal marsh with an actual photo of the same >marsh. Mapquest now has some fairly high resolution photos. You can toggle back and forth from a street map to an aerial photo and back. www.terraserver.com is a good system but their coverage is spotty. Maptech.com doesn't have aerial views but it *does* have nautical charts. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
The National Ocean Service MapFinder (http://mapfinder.nos.noaa.gov/) has low res nautical charts as well as coastal photography. The interface can be a little slow while you try to narrow down to the photos you want. Make sure you check (Display Online Products Only) or you will get a list of everything available from NOS... Mark At 01:38 PM 12/20/2001 -0500, you wrote: >At 12:18 PM 12/20/01 +0000, skimmer_at_mail3.enter.net wrote: >>What is/are the site(s) that provide high resolution photos of earth >>from satellites. Say you wanted to compare a nautical or Geological >>survay map of a coastal marsh with an actual photo of the same >>marsh. > >Mapquest now has some fairly high resolution photos. You can toggle back >and forth from a street map to an aerial photo and back. > >www.terraserver.com is a good system but their coverage is spotty. > >Maptech.com doesn't have aerial views but it *does* have nautical charts. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
> >Mapquest now has some fairly high resolution photos. You can toggle back > >and forth from a street map to an aerial photo and back. I'll second the Mapquest recommendation; I use it a great deal in some outdoor courses I teach and they are a great reference... Some of the photos are older black & white ones. I assume those areas haven't been rephotographed yet. The color and detail is very good overall and I can make out my house quite easily... Topozone is a great reference for topo maps for the USA, down to 1:24000 scale. No photos, but what I like is that I can put a crosshair on the map and get the UTM coordinates for that location... or vice versa, for that matter.. Joe P. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
On Thursday, December 20, 2001, at 4:14:33 AM PST, skimmer_at_mail3.enter.net wrote: > What is/are the site(s) that provide high resolution photos of earth > from satellites. Say you wanted to compare a nautical or Geological > survay map of a coastal marsh with an actual photo of the same > marsh. Hello Chuck, Terraserver and the NOAA/NOS sites were mentioned, but for even closer range detailed aerial photography, I've found a very nice site for my state (WA State, USA). I'm not sure about how other states and/or countries handle this, but in Washington State, the Dept. of Ecology has a site where you can follow, image by image, aerial photographs of all the state's *saltwater* coastlines (islands included). Perhaps there is a similar service where ever you are - or for where you're interested in. The Photos are clear, quite close up, and in color (it was easy for me to find my house). Here's the site for WA State: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/apps/shorephotos/ To get this, as well as the NOAA/NOS sites to work properly, you'll need to enable Java Scripting for your browser. I would be really interested to hear from people in other US states, as well as in any other country, about similar coastal aerial photo sites/services for their areas. Melissa -- PGP public keys: mailto:pgp_keys_at_gmx.co.uk?subject=PGP_Keys_1&Body=Please%20send%20keys *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
In our county in Florida, the Property Appraiser's web site contains recent, detailed, color aerial photos of the county available online free of charge. The web site let's one swtich easily between map views and aerial views of the same area in the same way that MapQuest works for a few parts of the country. Here's the site as an example: http://205.172.172.144/scripts/esrimap.dll?name=Brevard1&Cmd=TID&id=20011220&tid=2612178 (Just select "Aerial" and click "Change" with Java enabled... and just where would paddlers be without enabled Java :-) -- Al Vazquez KayakGuide.com tm the Place to Share Kayaking & Canoeing tm *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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