Posted on 05/29/2006 3:46:30 PM PDT by Swordmaker
What is it with Indiana? Isn't Indiana as American as Apple Pie??? What have they got to hide? Are they ashamed of their state?
Why is Indiana photographed at a far lower resolution than all of the rest of the United States???
Take a look at these screen grabs of Google Earth showing Indiana...
We can zoom into to Area 51 and look at it as if we were flying over it at 1000 feet... but try Indiana... the best resulution makes us feel as if we were flying over it at 5000 feet! What are they hiding? Is there a law that states: "Thou shalt not satellite photograph Indiana at high resolution."?
My parents were born in the toe of Indiana... and when we went to visit, we became convinced that Southern Indiana was in a 50 year time warp... and that you couldn't get there from here... no matter where "here" is. Could it be that light itself is slower coming off of Indiana? Does it take longer so the exposure appears to be farther away??? What gives?
Is this the ultimate flyover country?
Is it because Eerie, Indiana, is in Indiana? Who knows?
While we're at it? What's with Missouri???
That's because it is!
Ya know, I think they should change the name of that movie
to "Doctors in Black".
Taken? Oh, you mean.... well I was never taken but my dog was once, picked up in our yard and deposited 15 miles away,
My ex was across town to do some petsitting and he was on
the porch waiting for her...OoOoOoOo.
Scientists tried to debunk this by telling us that is
why dogs pee on cartires, it leaves a dotted scent line for
them to follow home, but I for one discount that.
Try zooming in...
Hoosiers are the best thats why! :)
We're so far backward, we're ahead of most folks. Those are images taken from airplanes. They don't show up in the huge picture because they were taken at low altitude, but just zoom in and they are higher res than anything other than the special big city images google earth uses.
Why would anyone (other than police) want high-res pictures of Detroit?
That's so the A10s can find the mosques we it's time to do so.
I have done so many times. Look at the border between northern IN and southern MI. You can see the cars in Gary, IN. Can barely see streets in St. Joe, MI.
Boycott Google! Google is doing evil!
Google (No recognition of Memorial Day on Home Page)
Here's the Indianapolis Speedway thanks to Windows Live Virtual Earth!
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=39.816507~-86.347093&style=h&lvl=14&rtp=null~null
And here is a photograph of my house in Stockton, California, from an eye altitude of 1048 feet... its not nearly so old... or so blurry...
You can see the obvious resolution differences... the Indiana photo is far less resolved and detailed.
Since you suggested Michigan, here is a picture of the port at Mackinac Island, Michigan, (about 5 miles from the bridge that connects the Southern Penninsula to the Northern Penninsula from about 1163 feet....
Obviously, the various areas are sat-photographed at various resolution... but Indiana is the only state that the Rez changes with its borders... wierd.
Oh, and Missouri changes at its borders as well...
Check out the comparable zoomed in pictures in post 33.
That IS wierd... Again, the change is consistent with the borders...
Poseyville, Indiana at 450 Feet.
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=38.16982~-87.784433&style=h&lvl=17&scene=2171016&rtp=null~null
I'm assuming that some states have paid for the photo surveys. Mass is also at a fairly high resolution while most states are low res with only major cities being high res. I keep hoping that Michigan will go high res but so far no luck.
I can get GIS maps of my county that are high res like that but so far google just has us as a green blur.
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