Windows Live - satellite & arial photography

[KenWittlief]

the satellite photos may be old, but the birdseye-view aerial photography seems to be fairly recent, at least here in rochester, NY. The new field house at RIT is under construction - almost done - which was completed just last year.

Heres some of those 3D photos I was talking about. When you see 3D with your eyes they are about 3" apart. I would estimate the photos I snarfed these images from were taken about 300 feet apart, so this is extreem 3D. This makes everything look small, as if you are a giant with eyeballs 300 feet apart.

These are cross eyed 3D images, you look at them by crossing your eyes and making the two images converge into one. If you have 3D shutter glasses, or something like the Icuiti V920 you can rename the extension to .jps and view these with a frame sequential monitor card.

The coast guard station lighthouse in Buffalo NY:



the street where I (didnt) grow up in Buffalo: (yes the roof is burned off the house by the corner!)



Some statue somewhere :^)

[Mr. Freeman]

http://earth.google.com/
Google Earth is a program that seems to be the same thing as "windows live".

I think the images are more up to date as well. I know that the image of my house is only about 1-2 years old based on the car we have parked in the driveway.

[KenWittlief]

I had googleEarth on my PC at work, and I just downloaded it on my laptop at home. The sat images for my house are the same on the Windows site and GoogleEarth. The difference is the interface - so much nicer to scroll around on google earth when each new page isnt coming across the internet.

I have to give WindowsLive extra credit for the aerial photography. Some of the photos in my area were shot in the fall, when the leaves were all full of color, and the images are excellent.

here is a shot of the NE corner of Irondequiote bay, NY - the area where I sail my hobie cat (a friend of mine lives in the white house in the upper left corner). BTW, this photo was not zoomed in all the way.



BTW - I just discovered if you switch the birds-eye-view from the default NS to EW their might be aerial photography in your area. I just did that and found the images of my home. Very cool!