Can someone in eastern Australia use their backyard to make a huge clock that is readable from space? This way when Google Maps updates their imagery we can use your clock as a reference to find out where we were at that particular day and time.
Thanks
"Sharpie"
** Got news for you pal - nearly all the images are taken from aircraft, mostly helicopters.Pics taken from satellites are not near as detailed.
** Last pic I saw of where I live showed all the wheelie bins on the nature strip on a sunny day with their shadows pointing east - so it had to be a Monday arvo.Your mad idea cannot work as the pics on Google Maps all have different dates.
.... Phil
do you want DD:MM:YYYY HH:MM:SS ?
May take 14 back yards.
Or do you perhaps want that in hex, octal, decimal, or binary?
Might be easier if Giggle time-date stamped their pictures.
:-)
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They took my street on bin night too, as well as the concretors doing my path. They could have picked a better day ;)
There is a Google competitor somone posted here a while ago that has the date of the aerial photos.
They have WA as well.
You can go back in time to see how your area has changed eg if you had buildings knocked down etc.
Not necessary you can approximate this by knowing specific locations of cars etc.
Would hate to pay the power bill.
With street view (note, this is NOT going to be taken at the same time as overhead pics), you could just put a sign with the date out the front and change each day (not practical), or lay out easily visible large items such as pots, blocks, suitably sized pieces of paper strategically stuck to inside of window etc in such a way to form a binary pattern that you can work out later from the pic on street view.
7 items (bits) would easily give you more than 365. that would cover each day of the yearMaybe if you were really keen for google satellite view, you could arrange (very large) items in your yard to form such a pattern. Items visible from overhead such as your car, kids trampoline, maybe bins, or similar could be positioned in patterns of different places each day to form a code.
Time can be determined roughly by examining the shadows.
Saw this a while back when visiting this town. If you take a look a couple of CM to the right of the words "riverside apartments" you can see a clock face in a front yard (looks like an upside down tick with white hands). This is an outdoor electric analog clock and reading it from the street if says 10-05. Note there are 4 bushes or small trees? on one side of the clock and 3 on the other.
Objects the size of these bushes could be arranged to form a binary pattern to indicate week/month or day as long as you remember to change them every day.
Are there any clocks like this in your area that you can look for in your google earth pic ?
Boy, that took some working out.
Google places the street view purple road copy of Warf St., in the middle of "riverside apartments". It is out of alignment, like many of the purple road street views in some areas.
I was able to find the fascia of K.Meyer & Co, and count back. Eventually found the 3 bushes one side, and four the other. But on street view, there is no clock face.
Picture must have been taken before it was installed, or after it was removed.
Anyone you can't find the property, it is the one with workers plastic orange fence, or mesh, to the left of the property, and this has a site office caravan directly opposite.
So, having a look at the size of the bushes, yes, you could set out a grid in one yard, possibly using orange wheely bins on a grid.
Now you need a simple time-date code that everyone can read. Decimal will be a lot of bins, if you are talking about a minute to midnight on new years eve.
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If you use nearmap.com and search for
wharf street mayborough qld
You see a beautiful pic of the clock face
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Would hate to pay the power bill.
With street view (note, this is NOT going to be taken at the same time as overhead pics), you could just put a sign with the date out the front and change each day (not practical), or lay out easily visible large items such as pots, blocks, suitably sized pieces of paper strategically stuck to inside of window etc in such a way to form a binary pattern that you can work out later from the pic on street view.
7 items (bits) would easily give you more than 365. that would cover each day of the year7 bits gives you 128, you would need 9 bits.
Maybe if you were really keen for google satellite view, you could arrange (very large) items in your yard to form such a pattern. Items visible from overhead such as your car, kids trampoline, maybe bins, or similar could be positioned in patterns of different places each day to form a code.
Time can be determined roughly by examining the shadows.
Got it Mick, that's not a bad picture.
One of the angled view shots, you can see the hands are actually above the ground. In another shot, the clock seems to have vanished again.
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7 or 9 bit kids may be hard to find. Plenty of 2 bits around.
Morse code numbers are only 5 bits per digit. One kid standing up, followed by four lying down for a "1"
:-)
Who is responsible for starting this thread?
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Not me, I was just being pedantic.
Sorry but I didn't point out that Google Earth (the downloadable software) does have the date but not the time.
nearly all taken from aircraft , CRAP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
crap again phil , how come satellites can read a newspaper headline on earth from outer space ???
no one wrote
Correct, but quite a bit of it is.
Not the ones used for google earth.
On Sat, 11 Jun 2011 20:04:34 +1000, Sharpie scrawled:
Yep!
-- Oh, bugger!
"no one"
" Although Google uses the word satellite, most of the high-resolution imagery is aerial photography taken from aircraft flying at 800-1500 feet rather than from satellites. "
.... Phil
Speaking of clocks - you could easily use electricity pole calibrated as a sundial - knowing the height would give you the month by the length of cast shadow and shadow position, time of day.
Now is the best time to start as the shortest day is June 22.
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