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This is a cool site. You can view most of the U.S. by satellite down to 1 meter resolution, and find your own house easily.
The site address is www.terraserver.com
Luka—If I recall correctly, you posted this months ago. Thanks
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This is a cool site. You can view most of the U.S. by satellite down to 1 meter resolution, and find your own house easily.
The site address is www.terraserver.com
Luka—If I recall correctly, you posted this months ago. Thanks
There's a constant source of clean water for you to use, and all you have to do is collect it.
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This is my stairshop from 400 miles up.
*This is scary! I zoomed in north of my shop, and you won't believe what resolution these satellites have!
*Stan, You need to get a stiffer bow, that ain't sticken them arrows in deep enough..hehehe!
*Stan, kinda cuts your chances of hunting out of season and getting away with it. Ha!Nice clean shot, nice buck.
*Allen: Actually the deer broke my $12 arrow running next to a tree. Armin: Whats really scary is I have skylights right above the master bedroom in my house, and I can make them out. I wonder if they view with infra-red?
*Stan,Did you have to subscribe to Tera Server to get the detailed stuff?
*Armin: My wife bought me that box fro Christmas last year. That was my first shot at a deer.
*Allen: Nocharge for looking. You can search almost every square yard of the U.S. They do sell special prints and other stuff. I just like looking around. If I knew your longitude/latitude in degrees/minutes/seconds--I could bring your place right up.
*Stan, If that's your first bow do the arrows have the rubber plungers on the tips?
*Armin: Yes, the little suction cups.
*Never mind can they (us) see into the skylights, the real question is can they (us) count the bills in an all cash deal!Notice to lurkers who are employed by the I.R.S..........the preceding was a joke based on a hypothetical situation. I was not waving a come and get me flag similar to "Going Legit In NYC". Thank You.Thomas
*I forget who posted the actual first satelite image of their house. But I believe Pete was the first one to post an image from the terraserver site. That's how I got directed to it in the first place.
*Luka: And I think you were posting a shot of your place and you gave the website,--I may be mistakenBy the way, are you shut down for the winter on your project?
*Nope. Just moving in slow motion. LOL
*stan.. great site but RI won't display...looks like a lot of the east coast is not mapped for that site
*Mike: I assumed everyplace in the US was on there except Area 51.
*Mike, Is Rhode Island is so small it won't show up?
*armin.. did you get the 'uppa to display ?most of the east coast wouldn't come up.. ...i tried three of their methods.. just couldn't get it to work
*Mike, Ya sure you bet ya, da UP is on there, complete mit a closeup of my outhouse. As a matter of fact National Geographic did a book on photos taken from the space station and the great Upper Peninsula had a page to itself, most of it was covered with ice but none the less it was in there.
*> most of it was covered with ice but none the less it was in there.Only most of it? The pic must've been taken in June!:-)Rich Beckman
*Actually, the res gets unbelievably better than what they release to us civilians.My bro has been involved with sat imagery for long time. One time in his office he showed me a shot of the S.F bay area. Zoom...zoom...zoom, now we're looking at a specific building...zoom some more, now we're looking at a specific window on that building...zoom again, we're looking inside the room through that window. Zoom a bit more, I can make out a wall hung picture on the opposite side of the room.Another shot, this one super IR, we see the tracks of an Israeli fighter in the sand. Thing is, the plane had taxied to it's revetment +/- 18 hours before.Lots of stuff we'll never here about.
*well, i've been back to the site about 3 times.. used lat/long.... place names .. and the click on map of the world...each time i ran into a dead end.. so i must be doing something wrong.....did you have to subscribe to get a display ?
*Mike, gimme an address.In email, if you want.
*Mike,Use the USGS.Here is starting point for you.http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=16&T=1&X=21&Y=361&Z=19&W=0KK
*luka, kk... thanks.. .. i clicked my way south from there... here's the pond i built in'84 and my office is 200' north of that...http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=10&T=1&X=1508&Y=22982&Z=19&W=0
*and here's Jamestown... right in the middle of Narragansett Bay..http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=15&T=1&X=47&Y=718&Z=19&W=0Washington crossed the Bay across Jamestown to meet with Lafayette in Newport and plan the campaign that trapped the British at Yorktown
*Mike: I am having someone figure excavating a pond in my woods this spring. I was told it should be about one acre in size. Your pond looks about 1/2 acre. Am I correct? Any problems with moss, etc?I was also told to have it around ten feet deep, and keep a variery of fish in it.
*Stan, I built 3 ponds on my fathers place many years ago. The big one is about 1 1/2 acres and 12 feet deep at the deep end. The other two are smaller and about 8 feet deep. Two of them are fed with flowing wells and the third is creek fed. The two shallow ones have weed problems that need to be addressed soon, I plan on redigging one this summer, making it deeper and somewhat wider. The 12 ft deep one stayed weed free for about 20 years and should be cleaned out also. A lot depends on the soils, amount of sunlite and source of water. 10 ft deep is the minim in my opinion. They should be stocked with several varieties of fish, dad has perch, bluegill, bass and trout. They all do very well, the photo below is a pic of dad with a pike that must have found its way into the pond and lived a very long and healthy life.
*What a fun site. here's my place for what its worth.http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=10&T=1&X=1398&Y=21774&Z=18&W=0mary
*that pond is only 4' deep.. i didn't want it any deeper because it's an "attractive nuisance".. .. since i don't want to spend my life chasing kids off. and it's close to the downtown area... i figured if any one fell thru the ice or capsized their "huck finn" raft.. they could wade to shore.. or their big brother could rescue them...two winters ago.. that plan paid dividends...some kids fell thru (1/2 " ice.. but you know kids).. and all they got was wet clothes...any body of water around here has to deal with phragmites (sic ?).... that invasive water plant that came up the freeways from new jersey..grows about 12'high... looks like pampas grass..so the pond is choked with it now...
*Check with your county extension agent, US Department of Ag, Soil stabiliztion, state department of natural resources (hunting and fishing).They will have lots of free information about sizing and placing the pond. And information and free or very low cost fishing for stocking.
*BTW... the neighborhood kids had that pond stocked within a month... adn the snapping turtles were very appreciative...
*It's tricky for us in the 'burbs, but I found my house: http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=10&T=1&X=3548&Y=18291&Z=14&W=1It isn't one of the ones with the tennis courts. ;-)Dave
*Armin: I am planning on a ten foot deep pond with one part of it 15 feet for the fish to go to in a hard freezing winter, should we ever get one again, ha. It will be ground water fed. I dug a test hole and the water table is down about 8 feet below grade. If one figures removing that 8 feet plus the ten feet for the pond, that is a lot of freakin dirt to be hauled out. I may have to settle on one half acre or so. Mike: I was told that the shallow ponds have the weed problems, and moss as well.
*Stan, thats a huge hole, the amount of dirt removed would be mind boggling, where do you plan on moveing it to? When I did my dads big pond we were able to use most of it for an earth dam, we hit a vain of gravel between the clay and graveled about a 1/4 mile of road with it also. If the source of water is nothing other than ground water you will have a serious weed problem since without a way to flush itself the water will stagnate and the resulting alge will bloom and produce optimum conditions for weed growth. You will most likely have to resort to chemicals to control it. Aquaside Co. has lots of weed control stuff to choose from, none of it is cheap. In a ground water pond debth is the key since weeds are stunted by lack of sunlite so the more debth the better. The deeper the pond gets the more expensive it becomes, I don't know what your budget is for this project but the ones I did for my dad ended costing 3 times what the contractor said it would, I finally rented the equipment and finished it myself. Since then I built several others in the area, kind of a fun thing to do, until you get something stuck that is, then you wished you were back in the shop making wood dust.
*My buddy got some (I think) grass carp that are supposed to help with the clearing of his pond. He has cattails as the major problem. About 1 1/2 A. pond 12 to 14 foot deep surface runoff earth dam type of pond. Chek with the county extention office they should be able to point you inthe right direction to obtain some of those critters for your pond.
*Armin/Don thanks for the info.This is a lot of fill to move,,,1700 big truck loads estimated. However, my excavating contractor has a huge job going this spring and he needs the fill. Speaking of fill, it is mostly gravel that packs to 100%. The hauling will be free in exchange for the gravel. However, my contractor has not given me a price on how much it will cost to dig this hole. I am fairly conservative, and I seriously doubt I will be able to afford this project.Armin: There are several lakes around this area, all man made and all ground water. The only ones that have trouble with weeds are the ones that arent stocked with fish properly.
*Stan, the gravel bottom helps, my dads ponds are a clay sand mixture when excavated takes a year to dry so you can move it. I'm doing a dam repair on a gravel bottom spring fed one next summer, this pond was about 20 ft deep untill the beaver decided the spillway needed to be plugged. I drained most of the water out last month and hope to rebuild it next summer with a beaver proof spillway. In case you are wondering how this ties in with stairbuilding, it's a paying hobby of mine. I used to own a D-3 Cat and played around with that. Now I have a NH skid steer with steel tracks, more mobile and can do more work on questionable soils. The big stuff I rent as needed. My business card reads: Custom staircases, picnic tables and ponds. (Tis a joke card a friend of mine made for me.) I'm about as diversified as they come.
*Armin: Bring that dozer to Illinois. I am off the farm, and have run about everything except a bulldozer. I sure I can slip the tracks off on a stump or something. Ha. I am gathering information on the dos and donts of pond construction. What I dont want is one big green lily pad for the frogs to walk on.
*stan.... you can avoid some of the depth requirement if you install an aereator (sic ?)...these allow for much shallower pond design ...hook it up to a windmill if you want energy conservation..
*Mike: Thanks. I am planning on one, for the visual effect as well.
*Mike, that pond of yours looks to be of a pretty good size, is it the biggest fresh water lake in R.I.Ha! I couldn't resist.
*armin... see jamestown on the right ?http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=16&T=1&X=23&Y=358&Z=19&W=0 see the big pond on the left ? that's Worden's Pond.....i think it's the biggest in terms of area... and i know it's the biggest natural fresh water.. although the Scituate Reservoir may be bigger..Worden's Pond flows into the Great Swamp.. scene of "The Great Swamp Fight"... where the Massachusetts Bay soldiers marched down and surprised the Narragansett Indians in their winter camp with the usual results...for some geological reason.. Wordens Pond is only about 4' deep all the way across...
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This is a cool site. You can view most of the U.S. by satellite down to 1 meter resolution, and find your own house easily.
The site address is http://www.terraserver.com
Luka---If I recall correctly, you posted this months ago. Thanks