Re: OT - GoogleEarth, techie advice sought

In article <00vcr1p0jnthp0ojcgd2hdt4m9bikmhbke@xxxxxxx>, Andy Minter <anma@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes 
M'Lud, Google Earth is a Terribly Clever Thing produced by those chaps
at Google, which has at its root a normous collection of satellite
images of the Earth's surface.
A sort of super Google local? or is it much cleverer that that?

Very cleverer even than that; among a host of Clever Things, some described elsewhere, is the ability to view from an angle, as it were, rather than from directly overhead - provided of course that the image has sufficient contour data and shadows. For instance, here is Coffs Harbour in Australia:

http://www.robinsomes.co.uk/coffs1.jpg

here's one of the sites of China's atmospheric nuke tests in the 1960s:

http://www.robinsomes.co.uk/qinggir.jpg

Here's part of the runway at Bagram air base in Afghanistan, featuring Infamous Black Helicopters:

http://www.robinsomes.co.uk/bagram.jpg

And for good measure, here's a nuclear power station in North Korea:

http://www.robinsomes.co.uk/taechon1.jpg

And I have now got myself on a list of subversive elements somewhere...

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