{"id":365,"date":"2006-05-05T11:29:23","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T16:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=365"},"modified":"2006-05-05T11:31:47","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T16:31:47","slug":"google-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Google Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago <a href=\"http:\/\/denbeste.nu\/Chizumatic\/\">Steven<\/a> posted a picture of where he lives, as seen from Google Earth.  I was playing around with GE last night, and took the following:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/google_amesbury.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Which is of my former condo in Amesbury, near Boston.  I lived there back in 2000.  This is what it looks like from about 2500ft.  I lived under the red dot.  Now here is my current house, taken at the same elevation:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/google_home.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m from a part of the country nobody cares about, so the images are so low-res that you can&#8217;t see anything useful.  I&#8217;d put a red dot there, but I can hardly tell what I&#8217;m looking at.  My neighbor and I <em>share a pixel<\/em> for crying out loud.  <\/p>\n<p>To get any sort of meaningful detail&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/google_home_far.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;I have to go to an elevation of <em>eleven miles<\/em>. When Google Earth was new I figured they were still working on it, but it&#8217;s been ages and I now strongly suspect these are the most detailed pics they have available.  So sad.<\/p>\n<p>Heading south, I eventually get close enough to Pittsburgh and run into the border where it shifts to high detail.  <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/google_border.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Disappointing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago Steven posted a picture of where he lives, as seen from Google Earth. I was playing around with GE last night, and took the following: Which is of my former condo in Amesbury, near Boston. I lived there back in 2000. This is what it looks like from about 2500ft. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}