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Looking Down on the World

I came across the Terra Server this morning and it's like a new toy that I can't put down. I don't know why I'm so fascinated by this, but I can't help myself. I've been looking at old addresses like my childhood home (it's the u-shaped one on the right with gray roof and the swimming pool) and the place I live now (zoom out a few bars to see how close I live to SF. I've been looking at mountains, stadiums, the White House. It's very cool, not that the pictures are great or anything. Only certain urban areas have high res color shots. The rest is filled in with old black & white USGS survey pcitures, but even that's cool.

Here's some stuff I've been looking at:


San Quentin Federal Penitentiary
, Marin, CA
Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, CA
Mt. Rushmore, Rapid City, SD
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA
The Grand Canyon
The Jefferson Memorial, Wasington, DC
The Pentagon, Arlington, VA
The Central Intelligence Agency, Langley, VA
Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL
Stone Mountain, Atlanta, GA
Beaver Creek Ski Resort, Avon, CO
Heavenly Ski Resort, South Lake Tahoe, CA
The Hearst Castle, San Simeon, CA
The Claremony Hotel, Berkeley, CA
The Astrodome, Houston, TX
Microsoft, Redmond, WA
Bill Gates' House, Medina, WA
The Playboy Mansion, Los Angeles, CA
The Hollywood Sign, Hollywood, CA
The Happiest Place on Earth
The Winchester Mystery House, San Jose, CA
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA
The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco Botanical Garden, San Francisco, CA
Stanford Stadium, Palo Alto, CA
The Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, CA
Memorial Stadium, Berkeley, CA
Husky Stadium, Seattle, WA
The Cottom Bowl, Dallas, TX
The Orange Bowl, Miami, FL
Mile High Stadium, Denver, CO

If you find some place cool, let me know.

4 Comments

Yikes. This is exactly the sort of thing that I could spend too much time playing with, a.k.a. procrastinating even more than I have been today.

(you can see how close my house is to the ocean! 1.3 miles.)

I know what you mean. I've been looking at places for a few hours now. Good thing I don't have anything important to do. Actually I do, but I feel like killing time anyway.

Just FYI: I put in my address and the location they show me is wrong. First of all, it's on the wrong side of the street!

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