LighthouseKeepers.com

Big Brother is Watching YOU!

Posted By: Digger

Big Brother is Watching YOU! - 09/09/99 11:18 PM

Smile when you go outside, your on camera! Want to go lighthousing from an astronauts point-of-view? Want to see what's behind someones fence or simply see your own house from space? I was able to zoom in close enough to see the tombstones in the Ol' Boneyard. It's a really cool website and lots of fun to locate your favorite lighthouse(s). Yes John, I found Poe Reef!

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/default.asp

Digger
Posted By: Bob M

Re: Big Brother is Watching YOU! - 09/10/99 02:42 AM

That is kind of cool, Digger! I zoomed in on the Cape Cod Canal area. This type of computer use is really great!

Bob
Posted By: Bob St Clair

Re: Big Brother is Watching YOU! - 09/10/99 03:18 AM

Digger,

Thanks alot, this is one great site

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Bob
Posted By: Bob Steinbrunn

Re: Big Brother is Watching YOU! - 09/10/99 04:27 AM

Hey, GD:

Thanks for the site! It's better than the National Reconnaissance Office satellite photos!

Tonight I was working on a 1/192nd scale model of a World War II FLETCHER class destroyer, the USS KIDD.

A piece of a .005" brass radar antenna I had been working on flew away into inner space in my workshop. This piece represented about 5 hours of laborious work.

Using your Web site, I was able to zoom in on my workshop floor and locate the lost part!

Thanks again!



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Bob Steinbrunn
Nautical Research Guild
Posted By: Digger

Re: Big Brother is Watching YOU! - 09/10/99 04:49 AM

Ah yes. My little marble/granite strewn stretch of earth. Look for the dot inside the hole with the lantern.

terraserver.microsoft.com/GetTilesByXY.a...07/1988&DSize=0

Come on everyone. Show us your place on earth.

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Posted By: LADYBUG

Re: Big Brother is Watching YOU! - 09/10/99 05:18 AM

Digger
What an awesome site -- we just found our house -- and of course Mukilteo Lighthouse
Posted By: Art

Re: Big Brother is Watching YOU! - 09/10/99 07:06 AM

Very cool. Thank you for sharing, Digger!
Posted By: Lighthousedude

Re: Big Brother is Watching YOU! - 09/10/99 12:33 PM

AWESOME SITE!!!

Thanks Digger for bringing that to the forum!
Posted By: Rusty

Re: Big Brother is Watching YOU! - 09/10/99 03:36 PM

Great site! Found Tybee. (I Think) Just visited there a few weeks ago.

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/GetTile...27/1994&DSize=0

Thought you might want to look.
Rusty

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Posted By: Weasel58

Re: Big Brother is Watching YOU! - 09/10/99 03:44 PM

Thanks for the site digger. Unfortunatly the photo for my city ends about 1 mile short of my house. However I got a good look at hatteras, and Bodie Island Lighthouses. I looked for Currituck , but you can't see the tower, tou can just mak out the keepers house. Bummer.
Posted By: Mapper

Re: Big Brother is Watching YOU! - 09/11/99 04:27 AM

It's good to hear that many of you find this data application interesting and useful. I'll be sure to pass along these kind words to those I work with that helped get the USGS data into this site. Plans are to continue to fill in the image gaps as data becomes available.

Allen
Posted By: mombo

Re: Big Brother is Watching YOU! - 09/11/99 05:03 AM

Great site, must play around with it a bit more.

Images cut off a bit before my town also. But then it isn't much of a town. Used to be a one horse town but the horse died.

Digger get ready. Have you ever dug a horse grave?

Mombo
Posted By: Greydawn

Re: Big Brother is Watching YOU! - 09/12/99 02:36 AM

Wow! Great site Digger! I've been having fun with this one.Thanks!
Posted By: Digger

Re: Big Brother is Watching YOU! - 09/12/99 04:08 AM

Mombo. Never have dug a grave for a horse. I have dug up a horse while digging a grave though! Never know where the farmers put them back when it was farmland. I am also compiling a nice antique collection from uncovered trash pits from the previous owners.
Posted By: chris g

Re: Big Brother is Watching YOU! - 09/12/99 10:41 AM

Rusty- if you look up Tybee Island, not only can you see Tybee, but you can see Cockspur Island Light as well! It's right in front of Fort Pulaski.
Posted By: Webmaster

Re: Big Brother is Watching YOU! - 09/12/99 04:12 PM

Mackinac Island and Round Island Lighthouse (white blob at 'bottom' of Mackinac Island.

terraserver.microsoft.com/GetPageByXY.as...gSize=1&DSize=0

The Mackinac Bridge connecting Michigan's Lower & Upper Peninsuls

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/GetPage...gSize=2&DSize=2

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Posted By: Anonymous

Re: Big Brother is Watching YOU! - 09/12/99 06:37 PM

Here is Whitefish Bay Point

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/GetTile...07/1993&DSize=0
Posted By: JeffB

Re: Big Brother is Watching YOU! - 09/13/99 10:32 PM

Great site!! Found the Jupiter Inlet lighthouse
Posted By: Rusty

Re: Big Brother is Watching YOU! - 09/14/99 12:38 AM

Chris,
Thanks for the info on Cockspur. Was there and have a few pictures of it. Thought it was so small that I wouldn't see it.
Posted By: Dove Point Light

Re: Big Brother is Watching YOU! - 09/14/99 01:35 AM

Here's a link to the RELIEF (WAL-605) from the air! It's on the left side of the picture near the left middle arrow-can't miss the "ship shape" in the water!

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/GetTile...10/1993&DSize=0
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