[permaculture] google satellite images
christopher nesbitt
christopher.nesbitt at mmrfbz.org
Thu Jul 30 14:31:40 EDT 2009
Thank you for that explanation, Paul. I live in a rural area, and it
is still vague where I am. Up on the border, at Dolores village, the
detail is so crisp, I can see the building I installed photovoltaic
panels on for a community phone. I wondered why our area (around San
Pedro Columbia, Toledo, Belize) was so unformed.
On Jul 30, 2009, at 11:59 AM, paul wheaton wrote:
> So ... this is weird .... my geeky life crossing with my
> permaculture life ...
>
> I worked on the ground systems for the spacecraft that takes those
> pics.
>
> The thing is that the satellite comes within picture range of an area
> about once every 2.5 days (that's an average - it's a lot more
> complicated than that). And lots of times there are clouds! And lots
> of times, there is more demand for pictures of populated areas so
> while the satellite is flying over your farm, it might tilt itself a
> bit to take pictures of a city off to the left instead. The result is
> that pictures of rural land aren't taken that often.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Keith D Johnson<keithdj at mindspring.com
> > wrote:
>> Part of the problem with this idea is that google has not updated
>> the views for many parts of the world and thus the images are often
>> too old to show the latest changes to various sites.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Taylor Arneson <taylorist at gmail.com>
>>> Sent: Jul 23, 2009 2:58 PM
>>> To: permaculture at lists.ibiblio.org
>>> Subject: Re: [permaculture] permaculture Digest, Vol 78, Issue 24
>>>
>>> Anyone out there know of, or how to easily make, a Google earth
>>> tour of
>>> large scale pc sites all over the world that show key line
>>> designs, large
>>> swales, ponds, food forests, etc. Someone who has GPS coordinates or
>>> addresses of many large sites (geoff lawton, darren doherty etc)
>>> could throw
>>> this together in a half hour with all the info handy. This could
>>> be a very
>>> useful tool for teachers and students alike. It can be made into a
>>> you tube
>>> video, music video, shown interactivley and as a guide for people
>>> who
>>> actually want to travel to these places, I know it may be an
>>> invasion of
>>> privacy for some but there must be a few folks with large sites
>>> that can be
>>> seen well on google earth that want to share the work they have
>>> done with
>>> others. Just a thought. Taylor
>>>
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Christopher Nesbitt
Maya Mountain Research Farm
San Pedro Columbia, Toledo
PO 153 Punta Gorda Town, Toledo
BELIZE,
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