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[lavamat_jon]

Lincoln Cathedral

 

[lavamat_jon]

Lincoln Castle

 

[lavamat_jon]

Castle Hill, the historic centre of Lincoln. You can see here how the castle and cathedral relate to each other.

Jon

 

[lavamat_jon]

High Street, Lincoln's main shopping street, in the downhill CBD. The stone arch you see across the middle of the High Street with the clock on, the Stonebow, which is Lincoln's Guildhall still in use today.

Also, the High Bridge (over the river), is one of the country's only remaining bridges with buildings still in regular use on it.

Jon

 

[lavamat_jon]

Last but not least...

This is where Darren and I spend a lot of our time... washer shoppers haven!

 

[foraloysius]

Robert,

I flew over London yesterday too. I felt like the flying nun! LOL

My roof has always been gray, still is, but I guess it is the sun that gives it sort of a red glow. The street to the right of mine is a block that has red roof tiles. The population density is quite high indeed.

Jon,

Wonderful pictures!! Lincoln looks beautiful from the air. Lincoln cathedral looks a bit like Westminster Abbey, doesn't it?

 

[brisnat81]

Hi Pete,

Matty's house is what most modern estate housing looks like across most of the country. Because we're so close to the City, they're trying to increase the density, to bring down housing costs and increase affordability.

Most new houses in Australia are Brick Veneer, which is a concrete slab base, with a wooden frame, and Brick outer walls to provde weather proofing. So similiar to the US constuctions.

The big difference here, is nobody has a basement, at best you get a little bit of storage in the breezeway under the house. If its new with a concrete slab, then forget it

 

[lavamat_jon]

Wonderful pictures!! Lincoln looks beautiful from the air. Lincoln cathedral looks a bit like Westminster Abbey, doesn't it?

Funny you should say that! The interiors of Lincoln Cathedral was used for the scenes set in Westminster Abbey in the Da Vinci Code film!

Jon

 

[jetcone]

Louis

I love all the green space just outside Groningen it looks like a short bcycle ride from the city to the country?

No my truck is just to the right its red. I think the large white thing is my parents RV Van they brought down 5 years ago.
That was before I had bought the big brown truck.

I must play with the computer and see if I can get the 3d feature working, Robert was kind enough to scout me out and send me the picture to post.

j

 

[hoover1060]

here is mine...

first is the distance between Michael's house and mine. On this Map Michael is #3 and I am #2

 

[hoover1060]

now my house from the air

Wasn't home when this was taken...

 

[hoover1060]

and from the other view

looks like I was home... that big silver car would be mine!

 

[petek]

I didn't realize you were near Bensenville.. I did some work there in the rail yards a few years back.

 

[hoover1060]

Bensenville

Is like 10 miles from here? Maybe a little less but not much.
The city of Chicago wants to level a chunk of it for O'hare expansion.
Here's another shot of the area, the pushpin is my house. Elk Grove Village is where my parents live.
You can see how close I am to O'hare too

 

[Unimatic1140]

Jon those pictures of Lincoln are just breathtaking. After you posted the picture of your house the other day, I did fly over Lincoln, it looks like a wonderful place to live. It is all so fun to see. What I find really interesting is to compare two of the pictures that I posted with two of the pictures you posted. Granted Lincoln is a smaller city than Minneapolis, but it is fascinating to see the HUGE difference in the way we built our oldest sections of our cities (the downtown or central area) between Europe and America. But what is even more AMAZING (and somewhat sad I must say) now is the pictures of our new suburban shopping centers, they look almost the same, we could switch the two shopping centers in the bottom pictures and no one would notice! But try swapping Lincoln's and Minneapolis' central shopping street. I have a feeling as time goes on more of the world will look exactly the same and we will lose more and more of our regional differences.

 

[nurdlinger]

Did Homeland Security censor that image?

What's hiding under the big white rectangle?

 

[nurdlinger]

DOH

Never Mind...

 

[mickeyd]

What easy, piece of cake thing am i missing

My address is 4458 Lakeshore Road Hamburg NY 14075. Trying repeatedly, I am told I do not exist. Is it because I have parks on either side of me and Lake
Erie behind me or am I truly a techno moron.

Would someone else like to try for me? Thanks.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Mike is this it?

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v...oint.r3tdwb8dt3js_4458 Lake Shore Rd, Hamburg

 

[58limited]

Well, Google Earth has a better picture of my house than Virtual Earth. I have noticed that big cities have great detail, smaller "less important" areas have much poorer detail. The blank area to the right is the ship channel - too bad there were no ships when the image was taken. The whitish area in my back yard against the seawall is my retaining wall project - the picture was taken right after the sand was delivered last year.

The blue roofs are tarps covering hurricane Rita damaged homes. 40% of residents here did not have insurance

 

[mickeyd]

thanks robert

When I click on what you just posted, I get the wavy 4-part flag, then a bar for what and a bar for where. The rest of the page is blank. Must not be set up to receive. Feel free to find me and post it. There is only one residence; the closest structure to me is a white blgd, the Hamburg town and beach center.

 

[Unimatic1140]

OK Mike, did I get it right???? I sense wringer washers in that house down there LOL.

 

[mickeyd]

Thar She blows, Moby, you sure did ! You got a hundred.

Thank You so much, but the garage is full of automatics and tt's, the wringers being confined to the basement. YAY for Robert, the techno Wizard. XXOO

 

[gansky1]

Well, after three days of trying to install XP service packs and get this Microsoft crap to work - I give up! This is what I can get from Google Earth - about five years ago...

 

[mickeyd]

Hey, Prince, just ask the King.

but it's fine, a little bit "abstract artiste."

 

[mickeyd]

Here's one for the Physicists

If the maps are live, when Robert found me, it was 10 o'clock here, pitch dark, but only 9 o'clock in Minneapolis, and still daylight. His pic of my house shows broad daylight, at a little before 9, his time; yet, this place was in utter darkness when he took the picture. If I try to figure that out, I'll blow all of my my fuses, and become a mass of jello. Any physicists about?

 

[petek]

The pictures are not live. They could be days, weeks, months, or years old. As the satellites pass over they snap pictures of any given area. It may take hundreds or thousands of pictures just to piece together a complete picture of just the USA like a patchwork quilt so it looks like they're starting with the big cities first. Then they do the same as they pass over other countries as they circle round the globe.

 

[hoover1060]

This is too much fun

I am having too much fun with this!
This of course has my house in the wrong place(#8) when I enter my address, I'm really over by #1

 

[mickeyd]

thanks, petey

I don't why I thought they were live? What's live--Google Earth, or just Al Roker?

;-D

 

[~sudsshane]

I can't seem to get this to work

=(( Robert, Minneapolis looks just gorgeous! reminds me alot of Long Island where I grew up..