Detailed Maps

[Nikijad4210]

Anyone know of any sites with highly detailed maps of the planet? I'm on a map kick today, and the ones on Nat. Geographic's site just aren't doing it for me (I like to know places' names, not what country they belong to....)

Know of any good sites??

 

[NiteTiger]

Google Earth?

Satellite imagery, with over lays of streets and other stuff.

Hell, I can see my car in the driveway of the house we moved out of when I go to my former addy in Google Earth

 

[Nikijad4210]

Maybe.......Would that identify islands? I'm kind of meandering around the South Pacific on NG.....

 

[NiteTiger]

Yeah, it'll give you political, national and regional boundarys as well.

 

[Sleepy]

http://edc.usgs.gov/

search google for "Marshall Islands" or any location...kwajalien atoll is neat...

google has its own map section...pretty cool...

 

[Tarkus]

I love maps, especially topographic maps. I am always looking out for a really good website with tons of topo maps. My friend's father used to have scores of maps and atlases. Every place on the globe, because he used to be a photographer of some sorts. I used to spend hours looking at them.

 

[Nikijad4210]

I used to spend hours looking at them.

I have a DK atlas book, 5, 6 years old now, but I still haul it out once in a while, and do the same thing---stare at it for hours at a time
I freakin' LOVE maps.

 

[Sleepy]

snow day...

snow day...

http://antiquemapgallery.com/index.html
old maps are cool, too...

cartography is kind of like art...

 

[Nikijad4210]

Oh fuck me running, I just found my new best friend---Google Earth
This is pretty damn cool, dunno why I never downloaded it before.... Awesome bit of software, I love it!

 

[Nikijad4210]

http://antiquemapgallery.com/index.html
old maps are cool, too...

cartography is kind of like art...

Oooh, I know, I have a small replica globe, 17th century, maybe (cheap & shitty-looking, but I love it anyway) I like it, sooner or later I'm going to find a better quality & better detailed one.

 

[NiteTiger]

South Pacific, eh?

Well let's head on over to the South Pacific in Google Earth.

Ah, here's a nice little archipelago...

Let's zoom in a bit. A Ha! It's the island nation of Kiribati and the capital Bairiki.

Looks like they enjoy some soccer in Bairiki!

But looks like some wicked reefs off the beach. They had to blast a channel for the harbor. And look how it juts outta the waves!

But the nearest airpot is in the town of Bonriki, where the two arms of the island meet.

Yeah, I think you'll like Google Earth

 

[mtnjohn]

terraserver.com is a really great site for maps,,,the best there is

it used to be free....dont know if it is anymore
mj

 

[Tarkus]

Yeah, Google Earth is amazing. I was checking out Puerto Rico, and I zoomed in on the house my friend is staying at in Toa Baja. I love how you can hybridize the picture for easy finding. Now to find ARECIBO again (not the town).

Hell, you can even see the trail I hiked up in the Guadalupe Mountains National Park. The Tejas trail, up to Pine Top campground.

 

[1TWISTEDTRUCKER]

Sweet thread,Niki.
Like you,I've always loved maps too.
Gonna let this BUZZZZZZZ come down a little,then check theese links out.

PWACE;1TT

 

[robobond]

After looking at Dubai they have the wildest building projects.




The world islands. You can purchase one of these individual islands and build a house.




Some kind of condo village.

 

[NserUame]

I love maps...but personally could do without the kinda information said sattelites give.

I have a globe that used to be my grandfathers, he died before I was born in the 60's. It's probably at least 85 years old, I love looking at all the 'extinct' countries. Whatever happened to Prussia anyways? They glossed over that bit in Geography.

 

[Guest]

Google earth is great.
Try searching places coordinates from google, input coordinates and have nice flight sir/mam.

 

[robobond]

What you'll soon learn however is there are many censored areas. Just zoom into to Amsterdam and you'll see one right near the maritime museum. Or maybe it is that I'm not sure but they have a marker near it.

 

[Nikijad4210]

Whatever happened to Prussia anyways?

I believe it's part of Germany now......here's a Wikipedia excerpt & link:

Before its abolition, the territory of the Kingdom of Prussia included "Prussia proper" (West and East Prussia), Brandenburg, the Province of Saxony (now the state of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany), Pomerania, Rhineland, Westphalia, Silesia (without Austrian Silesia), Lusatia, Schleswig-Holstein, Hanover, Hesse-Nassau, and some small detached areas in the south such as Hohenzollern, the ancestral home of the Prussian ruling family

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia

My grandma says old family tales link us to Russian royals, but I'm wondering if the old legends might have ment Prussian royals.....It would make more sense, it's closer to our ancestral roots in Scandanavia in that part of the family.....Anyone ever hear of a king from Scandanavia in roughly the 14th or 15th century violently overthrown by his brother & forced to flee from his kingdom? His name might have been Herra, Herrada, Herroda, etc---along those lines. We're apparently direct decendants of him.....I'd done internet searches, but it's tough to narrow down stuff from that far back without actually going to the countries in the area and looking at the remaining physical documents. Apparently my great-grandma went to Europe, starting out in Poland in the 40's or 50's to trace our roots and figured this out in a royal history/document museum somewhere along the Baltic in one of those Baltic-bordering countries....

And yeah, Robo, I know what you mean about censored areas, Wolf was looking for an Army base he was assigned to for training once back in the day, and couldn't find it, period.



I loved looking over Seoul again, with Google Earth, I could see all sorts of familiar places---tunnels, streets, buildings, parks etc. What I couldn't find, and my mom & I poured over the image for HOURS, was our old neighborhood in the "Diplomat's District", and my old school. It was right behind Yonsai University, but I couldn't find either one.....Even with a neighborhood overlay map being used for back-up (internet search) I know both are still there, I still keep in touch with friends I went to school with over there (from circa '94, no less) and even some of my teachers. My "student guide" (new students are assigned a "buddy" to guide them around the place for their first year) was my gym teacher's daughter, and I keep in touch with my ol' gym teach once or twice a year, they still live over there, and she's still teaching......But I can't find the damn school or the university on the sat maps.....And neither address brings up anything on an address-map search in GE, either.
We found our blatantly obvious neighborhood landmark (transmitter tower) but I can't find the damn schools.....Maybe, as my mom theorized, just maybe the trees have actually grow SO much over the last 13 years, maybe they've overgrown the buildings & concealed them....I find that a little hard to believe, I'd see that big-ass Z-shaped building one way or the other, and the property had 3 huge soccer fields on the property, you can't miss them.....I know they haven't done any exterior remodeling at all, and they have a big red-topped covered walkway along one field, out in the open......

The only thing I can theorize is that since the students at that school were from all over the world, and kids of diplomats, ambassadors, major companies, etc, maybe they worked out a deal to keep it off the Google maps....Security there was pretty fucking tight, as I remember, armed guards were everywhere.....One of the most prestigious schools in the world for a reason...Expensive as fuck for the time ($20,000 a year per student) and catering to very prominent folks.....I'm still bummed, I just wanted to take a peek into the past, that's all....

 

[Nikijad4210]

Heyyyy, imagine that, I found my old school
I didn't recognize it because they added a pool, and grassed the soccer fields

Not only that, our old house is still in the neighborhood----Cool