Google’s Earth
If your not aware about Google Earth (based on Keyhole), it is a program (for PC only) which allows you to get a satelite view of the world. Suprisingly Australia, including Melbourne has images. In theory it is just a big mosiac of the world. Your all wondering what on Earth this has to do with Melbourne? Well when I was pondering around the world I tried to find my house, found my old house, old old house, my work, uncles house, old school and practeclly everything I wanted to except MY house. Now the reason for this is becuase theres a big blot of pixalated photos for all the south-eastern and outer eastern suburbs! My house is 20m litterely from the clear photos, it just in the pixalated photos :( But Google have really done a good job with these, I hope they can take some more photos of Melbourne
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It’s been a while since the last satellite swooped over Melbourne, my house is just visible in the good quality region near Albert Park lake.
If you’re really desperate to look at some satellite images of Melbourne, you’ll find more coverage at the City2See [http://www.city2see.com] website that I saw awhile ago.
Hopefully Google Earth can get more images of Melbourne, like the quality of the ones on the City2See website. Personally, I’m finding it a bit hard to find my own house on Google Earth (it’s somewhere in the pixelated area — roughly 10-15km from the non-pixelated area.)
Google Earth is a mixture of satellite images and stitched aerial photos depending how far you are zoomed in, you are seeing a satellite image zoomed in way to much because there is no data from the government department that takes the aerial images (it
i am just now applying to download the geomatic v9 heard it is awsome
i want to see the world
There was a stack of new imagery added on the 16th of September - in decent enough resolution for me to see the roof of a bus shelter near the MCG :)