here's something fun.

[artw]

Satellite photos of the St. Lawrence between Brockville and Cornwall.... you can scroll around and zoom up to 1meter square resolution. I found some garbage cans on Sparrow Island and the shoal I hit, but I couldn't see the Lilly (too deep).

 

[artw]

Lock 28 - Conestoga

use your imagination. hehe

 

[scuba-punk]

Yeah, Terraserver is a cool toy/tool. I was amazed to see the skinny sidewalk that goes from my house to my barn

-Frank

 

[boney]

Hey what happened to all that land North of the St. Lawrence?!?!

 

[d33ps1x]

Hey what happened to all that land North of the St. Lawrence?!?!

Don't believe the hype.

Canada is a myth...

 

[StingRob]

Awesome... it would be nice to locate new wrecks using satellite photos )

Safe Diving

Satellite photos of the St. Lawrence between Brockville and Cornwall.... you can scroll around and zoom up to 1meter square resolution. I found some garbage cans on Sparrow Island and the shoal I hit, but I couldn't see the Lilly (too deep).

 

[artw]

You can also flip terraserver into topographic mode which is neat. I also found this last night - nautical charts an interactive nautical chart..
I've always found mapping and charting interesting... I can't wait to get into sidescan sonar.

 

[StingRob]

Apparently Maptech offers worldwide Digital Charts, charts.. and Offshore Navigator. Once you have that decide which region you need and pay $499.95 - $599.95 for each (i.e. MRN02 - Block Island RI to Canadian Border). That's a bit too much for my wallet )

Pretty cool application though.

Safe Diving

You can also flip terraserver into topographic mode which is neat. I also found this last night - nautical charts an interactive nautical chart..
I've always found mapping and charting interesting... I can't wait to get into sidescan sonar.

 

[boney]

What would be cool is if you could move/rotate/zoom all in real time... although it would be even cooler if they put the rest of Canada back on the map!!!

 

[scuba-punk]

It would be cool, but then it would defeat the whole that microsoft put the Terraserver together in the first place. 'Terra' is supposed to be a play on the words for earth and trillion. They did it to prove that SQLServer is scalable enough to handle more than a tera-byte of data. Regardless, it still is pretty cool. I think that anymore, most of the pictures are USGS photos (that's why there's no Canada), but at first, they were using declassified Soviet photos. I couldn't find my house because they had the whole town 'blanked' out because of the nearby millitary base

-Frank