[extropy-chat] Eugen's balcony

[Chris Hibbert]

>>> On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>>>> > ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 
> 
> Allright! If you send a GPS guided missile to here, it should 
> land on my balcony, or something. It's a static address, it 
> doesn't refresh according to my current position (yet).

Eugene, you should talk to MapQuest and see what it takes to get aerial 
photos on-line.  For your address, the best I can do is a map, while 
mine (and other densely populated places in the US) comes with an 
aerial view.  (If you click on successively higher zoom buttons, you 
get an ICBM's eye view.)

Eugene:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&zoom=5&latitude=48.07078&longitude=11.61144 


Chris:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?latlongtype=decimal&zoom=5&latitude=37.36243&longitude=-122.0695

In any case, it ought to be good enough for someone to get driving 
directions if they wanted to visit.

Chris

(I've been geocaching (www.geocaching.com), and I've gotten familiar 
with this tool.)
-- 
C. J. Cherryh, "Invader", on why we visit very old buildings:
       "A sense of age, of profound truths.  Respect for something
       hands made, that's stood through storms and wars and time.
       It persuades us that things we do may last and matter."

Chris Hibbert
hibbert at mydruthers.com
http://discuss.foresight.org/~hibbert