Has editing been fixed now?
Jul 30 2006
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Jul 30 2006
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Answer: no it hasn't. Though on the "Socialist parties, would you vote for them?" thread, it says I can edit all of my posts. I thought maybe it had been fixed, but I guess not.
Jul 30 2006
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Nemo wrote:
Answer: no it hasn't. Though on the "Socialist parties, would you vote for them?" thread, it says I can edit all of my posts. I thought maybe it had been fixed, but I guess not.
Sorry. I was in the process of writing a patch for the module to fix it and accidentally got addicted to Google Earth 
Forgive me
"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Prize." - Tom Lehrer
Jul 30 2006
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ghostzart wrote:
Sorry. I was in the process of writing a patch for the module to fix it and accidentally got addicted to Google Earth
Yeah, Google Earth is pretty addictive alright. It's a bit patchy though. You can get a nice close up of my house and the surrounding area, but the neighbouring towns appear in such a poor quality as to be useless. Also, I got me a cheap GPS which works well with GE. I went on a walking holiday on Dartmoor recently (my first holiday in about 8 or 9 years), and took the GPS with me. I uploaded the data I recorded on my rambles to my PC and used it with GE -- it's an interesting alternative to holiday photos! Shame the GE quality on Dartmoor is piss poor though.
Also, keep up the good work! You people are doing a great job!
Jul 30 2006
#6
Nemo wrote:
Yeah, Google Earth is pretty addictive alright. It's a bit patchy though. You can get a nice close up of my house and the surrounding area, but the neighbouring towns appear in such a poor quality as to be useless. Also, I got me a cheap GPS which works well with GE. I went on a walking holiday on Dartmoor recently (my first holiday in about 8 or 9 years), and took the GPS with me. I uploaded the data I recorded on my rambles to my PC and used it with GE -- it's an interesting alternative to holiday photos! Shame the GE quality on Dartmoor is piss poor though.
I was taking a Google Earth-sponsored trip down memory lane this afternoon only to find out the 160-year-old house where I lived for 4 years as a child is now an empty lot covered in reddish soil. The only thing left standing is the garage. That was a bit sad. But the 3-dimensional buildings in the cities are terrific. Pity they're only in the States. I'd like to see the Eiffel tower without having to pay the airfare. Did you know if you go and look at Dick Cheney's mansion it's a big blob of pixels (I read in Wikipedia it's for security reasons)? I haven't found any such blobs in other sites yet. I wonder what makes him so special. The photographs of Antarctica were also disappointly lacking. I mean, I know it's all a bunch of ice (for the time being) but I still was curious about the topography and such.
"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Prize." - Tom Lehrer
Jul 31 2006
#7
This morning I got a little bored and was looking through Afghanistan in Google Earth. I found this. It's fucking weird. It looks like a giant, rectangular entrance to a cave or something. And if you go a little up and to the left there's about a dozen pockmark holes in the rocks that look like they came from the gun of an airplane. South of that it looks like a window carved in the rock or something. Hell, when you're bored, this is better than passively watching TV.
"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Prize." - Tom Lehrer
Jul 31 2006
#8
I'll have to take a look later as I couldn't get the linux version of GE working. Bear in mind that the images are often years old, probably before the US got there, if that is what you are thinking. And the reason they are often blocky is not censorship (though it maybe in some cases, I guess), but because the GE data is a patchwork of data from various different sources of varying quality (some quite poor). If you look at the bottom you can see the copyright message changes depending on where you are. I suspect that the really good images (like where I live) come from aerial surveys, and are not satellite images.
Years ago, where I lived as a kid, there used to be a fort not far from where I lived (Napoleonic I think). Kids always tried to get into it, to see what was inside, but it was always kept locked up because it was privately owned. It was always believe that there was network of tunnels running under the town, and everyone (the kids that is) wanted to get into the fort so they could explore the tunnels. My Nan lives in a nursing home now right next to the fort, and recently part of the building collapsed into a tunnel! So we were right! The fort was the first place I looked at on GE (other than my house). GE takes you places you can never go, even if they are nearby!
Also, I once tried looking for the Nazca Lines, but you can't see them because the quality is so poor in Peru. I hope they update the poor quality with better data, as it becomes available.
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