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10-09-2015, 10:39
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Your boat from space - Google Maps
As I was poking around on Google Maps today I thought I would check to see if my boat was shown in the marina I kept it at this past winter and spring.
Lo and behold there it was. It'd be fun to see how many others can find their boat from space. Please post your pictures if you do.
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10-09-2015, 10:48
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Re: Your boat from space - Google Maps
You sent me looking avb3. I guess we were out cruising during the last round of Google satellite imaging. Our boat is absent from the two docks it could have been caught at. Ah well...
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10-09-2015, 10:58
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Senior Cruiser
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Re: Your boat from space - Google Maps
Boat's under the blue tarp just next to the star.
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10-09-2015, 10:59
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Jacksonville/ out cruising
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Re: Your boat from space - Google Maps
Google has a street view kind of thing that allows you to "drive" down your street, well if I do that on the street I live on, I see myself driving the other way, really sort of weird, I don't remember seeing that car with all the cameras on it.
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10-09-2015, 11:53
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Location: Heathsville, VA
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Re: Your boat from space - Google Maps
Cat Lady at home port:
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10-09-2015, 12:10
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Location: Southern Tier, NY
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Re: Your boat from space - Google Maps
Last I had checked, it wasn't, but it certainly appears to be me now (Solar on the stern rail kinda gives me away). Need some higher resolution now!
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10-09-2015, 12:13
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Location: SF Bay Area
Boat: Islander 34
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Re: Your boat from space - Google Maps
Alas I move around a bit. For the marina I used as a home port, I was never there when google took a photo.
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10-09-2015, 12:21
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Re: Your boat from space - Google Maps
These photos are not from space.
Google is licensing orthophotos (aerial shots for cartography) from providers (= public agencies in general).
In case these are not available - case of remote islands for example- they go back to NOAA or SPOT for satellite takes.
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10-09-2015, 14:33
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Re: Your boat from space - Google Maps
I love this picture because it reminds me how much I don't miss our old pen.
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10-09-2015, 14:36
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Re: Your boat from space - Google Maps
Royal Papua Yacht Club, Port Moresby, PNG:
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10-09-2015, 14:45
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Location: Laboe - Germany
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Re: Your boat from space - Google Maps
... if you use Google Earth it allows you to scroll back in time through the various shots taken and you might find another date when the boat was on the slip.
Seems Google Maps is using the latest 'Google Earth picture'.
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Carsten
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10-09-2015, 15:46
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Crystal Beach, FL
Boat: Ericson 27
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Re: Your boat from space - Google Maps
Quote:
Originally Posted by avb3
As I was poking around on Google Maps today I thought I would check to see if my boat was shown in the marina I kept it at this past winter and spring.
Lo and behold there it was. It'd be fun to see how many others can find their boat from space. Please post your pictures if you do.
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Mar Marina? Walked that dock yesterday looking for a slip, no room unfortunately. I'll be a a few doors up the river at Anclote Harbors more than likely.
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10-09-2015, 15:57
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Florida/Alberta
Boat: Lippincott 30
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Re: Your boat from space - Google Maps
Quote:
Originally Posted by Shallowminded
Mar Marina? Walked that dock yesterday looking for a slip, no room unfortunately. I'll be a a few doors up the river at Anclote Harbors more than likely.
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You guessed correctly. Pretty hard to miss that big Lazzara yacht of the owners isn't it?
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10-09-2015, 16:39
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Re: Your boat from space - Google Maps
Anyone who has watched Catmorron's (aka Kevin's) videos.. This is how he did the intro. He took a google earth pic with his boat in it, then used photoshop to remove everything but the boat. Then he would use photoshop again to drop that little pic on a google earth picture of his current location... Genius!
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10-09-2015, 16:55
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Whoo! Finally made it back to Mexico!
Boat: Cheoy Lee Offshore 38
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Re: Your boat from space - Google Maps
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Originally Posted by bcn
These photos are not from space.
Google is licensing orthophotos (aerial shots for cartography) from providers (= public agencies in general).
In case these are not available - case of remote islands for example- they go back to NOAA or SPOT for satellite takes.
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If you check the copyright notices, you will see that the photos were taken by Digital Globe. Digital Globe is a digital imaging company that takes high resolution images via satellite. I know, cause my sweet works there. They also provide mapping and high resolution images for the government. Sorry...but we just got old and come from an Era when this stuff was science fiction. Fiction caught up with reality.
Sweety says their best resolution is .3 meters but these photos are .5 meters
James Bond would be so impressed!
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