California Coastline aerial photography!

[Scubaroo]

Check this website out - aerial photography of most of California's coastline, searchable by GPS coords, or drilldowns from a map.

http://external.californiacoastline.org/

Here's a shot of the Breakwater in Monterey:

http://external.californiacoastline.org/cgi-bin/image.cgi?image=1008&mode=sequential&flags=0

Larger image (warning - HUGE!):

http://external.californiacoastline...age=1008&mode=big&lastmode=sequential&flags=0

Must have been a weekday - there's not a single diver, and usually the grassy areas are covered in diver's gear. I've counted 150 divers there before.

All pictures were taken with a Nikon D1X. Here's a link to a newspaper article about the project:

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/4401100.htm

Pretty cool, huh? Now I just need DSL and a week to browse potential new dive sites!!!

 

[SPEEDSTER]

but really slow, even with a T1 line. You may need a week just for downloads, and another week to actually browse the pictures! cool link, thanks

mike

 

[Scubaroo]

I think the site is still looking for a permanent home - it's only been up a week, and is living on donated hosting space at the moment. The newspaper article said there's about 99 CDs worth of pictures - about 64 GB or so.

 

[montereydivemas]

my dsl is bringing it up fairly quickly. if only it was in real time so we could see the dive sites before leaving the house. YES I am LAZY !!! =-)