Satellite Photos

Shame it's not more detailed out from Sydney. I get a vague green and brown display for my suburb, and it doesn't gain detail as i zoom. Pixelates instead.

-mark

Google Earth is the coolest thing since, well, Google. Probably responsible for more company downtime than email jokes, everywhere I look around the office I see people flying around the planet.

Unfortunately not all of Sydney is mapped yet. The city, North of the city, and West past Prospect haven't been mapped high res yet. I'm waiting for the mountains to be mapped high res to get some good canyon maps.

I can see my car in the front driveway of my house - awesome!

Google Maps uses the same data set but allows viewing with your web browser:

Type in Sydney and then click on the Sydney link and Satellite view (maps aren't working yet). This also takes Lat/Long coords directly into the URL. Doesn't seem to zoom quite as close as Earth though.

You can do lots of other stuff with GoogleEarth too, like overlay images, waypoints, maps, tracks etc. You can write database backends to feed data into the program.

Dave :)

On this note... Anyone have any good image enhancement software?

Looking for something that does "Hollywood-style" enhancement, I have photos of a specific place that are fairly badly pixelated, and would like something that can basically "zoom" it and enhance the quality/resolution of the image.

Like you see on cop shows with a single grainy camera image turning into a perfect portrait of the person...Something similar must be out there, but the only ones I can find are digital photo enhancement where it enhances shadows to bring out colours, and similar crap.

-mark

No image enhancement software can create detail that was not in the original image.

You do realise that TV isn't real, right? *grin*

Peter

True, but there must be programs out there with algorithms that extrapolate the saturation and colour details from surrounding pixels, and figure out what the image "should" look like with more detail in it. It would only help to a certain degree, but surely it can be done!

Well, that one's a given.

-mark

If it's who I think, a better pic here:

If you that is something, check out:

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As others have said, there is no such software. The only way it could be done would be to take multiple grainy images of the same object and produce an image that is basically an average, and probably correct.

Anything else is, as said, fiction.

Ken

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Crap. Was kind of hoping for a silver bullet.

Figured there must be some program somewhere that does it. If not, there will be one someday, the way computers are going!

-mark

Why do you think there "must" be such magical programs around. The relationship between a pixellated image and the more detailed image from which it is taken is a one to many relationship. A dog, a bear, a motorcycle or a large steaming dragon dropping can reduce to the same group of four pixels. Which one should this software divine to be the original subject.

A good introductory text in this area is "Introduction to Information Theory and Data Compression" by Hankersson, Harris & Johnson.

What do exist out there in software land are programs which can extract a more detailed image from a series of images (e.g. a number of sattelite images of the same target from a slightly different position or of a number plate from successive frames of a poor quality video). These are based on simple oversampling, nothing magical at all here.

Cheers, Alf

No, there won't. You simply can't make up information like that. There is no way to know if a white pixel is a sign saying "No exit", no matter how much computer time you throw at it.

Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock

Good one Terry. No prizes for guessing who's bed-sit you are referring to. :) Hey that small black plume - isn't another toaster going up in smoke is it?

Cheers, Alan

Yeah, you just gotta love it when you set the magnification slider to max. I always had an idea that this is what the moon was really made of. Gotta hand it to those Google boys....... :)

Cheers,

Alan

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up in smoke is it?

Nah, another set of Quads I'd say ;-)

What I did was put a person's name into the White pages, get a map reference and zoomed it to match the Google Sat. photo. Then zoom them both in and it was quite easy from there. Plus it does help that there is a bloody big church over the road as a landmark visible from space ;-) Funny in a way as it is God's view as well.

Cheers Terry

There is a photo currently on the Raine & Horne website of the flats - I tried the link but I see it didn't work out. Flat number 2 (not his) at 19 Prospect Rd is on the market - you could be a neighbour!!

Yikes!!!

Yeah, imagine living next to YKW !!! It would be like living in hell. Not to mention the constant comings and goings of "customers" dropping in their toasters for repairs and the not so dulcet tones of a pair of squeaky ESL57's (on loan thank God).

There could be some consolation. The new owner / tenant could whip across the road and pray for divine intervention or maybe an exorcism?????

Cheers, Alan

"Alan Rutlidge"

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No luck ??

.......... Phil

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Hi Phil, (please see add below)

I'm always on the lookout for investment properties and this sounds rather good. What I can't understand is that you always describe it as a dingy bed-sit. The add makes it sound quite nice. So doing some calculations and checking the rental market there abouts this would have to generate something like $350pw in rent. How do you afford it? Surely your hobby business with a turn over of less than $50k/pa can't sustain that level of outgoings?

So if the rest of the units are only rented for $200-$250pw, as I suspect, it then makes this property over valued by a large margin. What would be the chances of beating the seller down to about $250K do you think? Of course there is the problem of the fire hazard (you), the faulty wiring (that you tinker with) and every time the fire brigade comes around for a check you have an argument and throw the poor guy out! I'm staring to go off the idea already.

Regards TT

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Does he rent or own??

A check with the strata manager Somerville First National at Ashfield would give you all the owners names and any problems on the books such as letters from tenants or owners. It's a buyers right to know what they are getting into.

Various companies can do this for a small fee.