permaculture

[christopher nesbitt <christopher.nesbitt@mmrfbz.org>]

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@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@gmail.com>
> > > Sent: Jul 23, 2009 2:58 PM
> > > To: permaculture@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
> > >
> > > taylorist.com
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Maya Mountain Research Farm
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BELIZE,
Central America

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