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Craner Curves · 20 Dec 2005, 17:53 (Ref:1487491)

Brands Hatch is in fantastic detail now. It looks like a WSBK weekend to me.

pirenzo · 20 Dec 2005, 18:38 (Ref:1487524)

Yeah, I saw that. Birmingham's got good detail coverage now as well. It was kinda bad that the UK's second largest city was in such low detail before.

ausracefan · 21 Dec 2005, 07:48 (Ref:1487827)

You can also sort of see Melbourne and Mexico City. Donnington is in good detail, as is Eastern Creek.

mandretti39 · 21 Dec 2005, 13:42 (Ref:1488065)

Guys, I was looking at old circuits that no longer are used, and was able to find the US Grand Prix track in Dallas that F1 raced on. Here it is...

shambles · 21 Dec 2005, 17:09 (Ref:1488183)

That's cool Mandretti, any chance you could find Caesars Palace, I think it's been built on but whereabouts it was would be great?

PAUL

Alwaysfirst · 22 Dec 2005, 00:08 (Ref:1488442)

I actually liked that circuit (at least, by street circuit standards) but I think it was given a really bad press after that 1st event went so badly. Shows how, even if the circuit is reasonable, if the public is made unhappy the event will not continue. Wasn't there originally a chicane on the back straight though? (even though I prefer it without one)

mandretti39 · 22 Dec 2005, 03:40 (Ref:1488467)

There was, according to racingcircuits.net, but I couldn't figure out where to put it.

pirenzo · 22 Dec 2005, 10:42 (Ref:1488594)

I remember seeing an onboard lap of the Dallas track. It looked positively terrifying. In some places it seemed barely wider than the car.

I believe the problem was though the track surface broke up during practice or some other non-race session. A combination of heat, poor track surface and the load put on it by 25 high powered racing cars on it. The race probably just wasn't worth the enormous cost of putting it right.

pirenzo · 23 Dec 2005, 12:45 (Ref:1489224)

Here's a little gem
Put this in the search bar in Google Earth (you might need to zoom out a bit)
33 34' 43.48"N, 7 41' 15.37"W

It's Ain-Diab, Casablanca, Morocco. Used for the 1958 Moroccan Grand Prix, won by Stirling Moss.

kmsport · 31 Dec 2005, 01:52 (Ref:1492299)

Mallala in S Australia
Pity Spa in Belgium is low res

Rockmunky · 28 Jan 2006, 16:04 (Ref:1510796)

Just had a look on google maps (same images used) and there are loads more hi -res areas, brands hatch is now looking good, and milbrook test track in bedfordshire is also hi res. Alot more countryside is now hi resolution now, go have a look.

nickyf1 · 18 Feb 2006, 17:38 (Ref:1525793)

Glasgow hasnt got good resolution

**Woolley** · 18 Feb 2006, 18:07 (Ref:1525809)

My house has recently moved into Hi-res and it's scary how much detail you can see, even down to where the caravan was parked that day.

Mike_Wooshy · 18 Feb 2006, 18:12 (Ref:1525811)

yes, My house is just on there and you can see my car on the drive that was parked at the time !!!
very scary !!

pirenzo · 18 Feb 2006, 18:23 (Ref:1525818)

Both my current locations (home/London, university accommodation/Birmingham) are in hi-res areas.
I don't understand why people find that at all peculiar. Its a still image. Apart from the colour of your car not a jot of information can be known about you from it.

Rockmunky · 19 Feb 2006, 09:57 (Ref:1526126)

Yeah well as im a few miles from london, mie's been Hi-Res since the beginning, and i have this huge plant in my front garden... can see that too.
Yeah, nothing about individual people can be found out just by looking at an aerial view of millions of houses, it's just kindof interesting to see things you recognize. One day, there'll probably find a way to get real time images, that would be interesting...

nickyf1 · 19 Feb 2006, 11:25 (Ref:1526158)

real time images at silverstone!

Rockmunky · 19 Feb 2006, 12:23 (Ref:1526186)

Providing it still exists and isn't a housing estate....

nickyf1 · 19 Feb 2006, 17:56 (Ref:1526335)

Quote:

Originally Posted by nickyf1

Glasgow hasnt got good resolution

Now it does!!

**touringlegend** · 19 Feb 2006, 18:48 (Ref:1526366)

It's had a good res for a couple of months now.

nickyf1 · 21 Feb 2006, 20:47 (Ref:1528320)

Quote:

Originally Posted by thebear

In honor of the new shuttle mission, Google put up a most excellent moon map.

Follows the same principles as the Earth map. Click HERE .

Make sure you "zoom down" to the highest magnification.

CHEESE!!!

redshoes · 24 Mar 2006, 22:52 (Ref:1559975)

Google have just updated most of Germany with hi-res images

Sachsenring - 50°47'28.97"N 12°41'21.04"E
Oschersleben - 52° 1'39.87"N 11°16'47.15"E
Lausitzring - 51°31'56.67"N 13°55'31.32"E
Hockenheim - 49°19'52.88"N 8°34'26.44"E
and best of all
Nurburgring - 50°20'3.26"N 6°56'45.24"E

jab · 26 Mar 2006, 14:36 (Ref:1561367)

Hockenheim is still the old circuit, though!!

pirenzo · 26 Mar 2006, 14:49 (Ref:1561369)

Yeah, the images are all out of date. Makes you wonder why they didn't include those images from the beginning. Perhaps they've only just become available for free...

**touringlegend** · 26 Mar 2006, 16:52 (Ref:1561422)

Sorry if someone has already mentioned it, but does anyone use Google Earth Pro ? Does it have more higher res areas, and are there any other programmes similar to GE ?

I ask as I've been told my house is high res but on my GE it's just the normal resolution with the high res starting a mile away.

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