Playing w Google Earth

[Ridgewalker]

Nice looking area. I have never been west or south of St. Louis. Would like to get through MO, AR and TX some time.

If you're ever passing thru let me know and I will give you a tour. My neck of the woods is pretty unique. The St. Francois Mts. are older than the Ozarks, Rockies, Smokies,etc, supposedly I have 500 million year old rocks. This area was mined since the 1700's, the first lead mine in the nation was Mine La Motte. We had Silver, Gold, Copper, Cobalt, Lead, etc all mined here. My uncles and Grandpa were all miners...tough duty!

I highly recommend visiting Silver Mines Conservation Area (CA) ditto for Amidon CA and Mill Stream Gardens. Those are all great places to take the kids.
Google them and look at the pix. We aren't far from Elephant Rock and Johnson's shut ins; Taum Sauk, etc.

The bad news, I hope I don't upset anyone here, I am too easy to track down!

 

[MossRoad]

The bad news, I hope I don't upset anyone here, I am too easy to track down!

HA!

 

[JB4310]

Birds eye view is cool, especially where the resolution is high, I'm interested in mapping of all sorts. We have fly over imagery here from 1935.
They also have street view now in many areas, a view at street level 360 degrees. We had people over at Thanksgiving and I showed one girl the street view of her house and she was in the driveway bringing in groceries, she couldn't believe it! Also the community thing where anyone can put in a push pin and post a picture and info.

Earth cams are cool to, live views from around the world.

JB.

 

[jinjimbob]

I think the birdeye view on live.com is also very good. They cover areas that google hasn't got yet.

 

[hunterridgefarm]

Any idea how often the aerial satellite views are updated? Our county GIS is trying for new satellite views every 5 years. The Google views are a few years old and need to be updated.

 

[jinjimbob]

It depends on your area to how often your city/county updates their views.

I know cities near me update theirs yearly, they use them to create automatic building permit fines for items like decks.

Google maps is wrong for streets around me, they stepped back in time the other year for me, weird.