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Bassam Abdul Baki

A friend just sent me a location of people swimming in Australia close to the Sydney Olympic games location. (Nothing crazy.) I'm impressed that Google can zoom in that close. I also see that most of them have shirts and shorts while swimming so I have to assume that it's because of the heat.

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Chris Maunder

Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:

close to the Sydney Olympic games location

You mean Sydney?

Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote:

shirts and shorts while swimming so I have to assume that it's because of the heat.

No, it's for UV protection. We have serious sunlight down here and skin cancer is a killer. Google recently flew some planes over Sydney to get higher res shots. Those aren't satelitte pics you're looking at ;)

cheers, Chris Maunder

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JohnJ

Got a vision here of Google staff flying low over Sidney in Tiger Moths with Box Brownie camera's doing low level shots :laugh::omg::laugh:

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El Corazon

Chris Maunder wrote:

You mean Sydney?

Sydney Harbour, Texas?[^] ;P You can get 1/2 meter commercial sat satellite, but you can get 10 cm or better fixed-wing. In fact there are mapping UAV's operating almost 24hours all over the USA and various other countries. The land for fuel and maintenance, and then move-on. Expect lots more images from all over the world in both Google and other sources. :) In fact with so many images coming in, you're bound to see more of the Google voyeurs looking for those without the shorts and shirts... :rolleyes: as if they didn't see enough pixelated nudity in the sims, they are looking for them in Google also. :rolleyes:

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El Corazon

JohnJ wrote:

of Google staff flying low over Sidney in Tiger Moths with Box Brownie camera's doing low level shots

I had a vision of Google male staff flying over and taking turns with the telephoto lens.... "hey, I missed a section, can we loop back again?" ;P

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Mark Salsbery

Thanks for the heads-up. I will adjust my tanning habits. Mark

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Bassam Abdul Baki

Chris Maunder wrote:

You mean Sydney?

Umm, that was my Irish redundancy speaking that was. :-O

Chris Maunder wrote:

Google recently flew some planes over Sydney to get higher res shots. Those aren't satelitte pics you're looking at

Wow. So is there a Google Airlines in the near future?

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David Cunningham

Chris Maunder wrote:

Google recently flew some planes over Sydney

Geez, could they fly over some nude beaches then? Who do we talk to about this?

David

Bassam Abdul Baki

I have the bunny mansion bookmarked, but so far, nada. :-D

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joon vh

Strange that no one has mentioned this earlier: Google Sightseeing[^]

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