Quake3World

How To: Install GoogleEarth, and then paste the coordinates in the search box and hit enter. It's best to max out all the settings for GoogleEarth and run it in OpenGL mode. It's the fastest, and best. Also, it's a good idea to exaggerate the terrain by a factor of 3. I've found this replicates the look of my local mountains the closest. The default is definitely not high enough. Make sure you increase the cache to 512MB so you're not always downloading commonly viewed areas (e.g. your house) and set your detail area to either 256 or 512, so the image files download faster.

Huge Pizzas: 32°39'18.21"N by 117° 6'58.58"W using GoogleEarth.

Poorly masked nuclear power plant: 32°48'2.71"N by 115°32'29.62"W

Plane taking off from Sky Harbor Intl. You can see how massive the Indian highway decorations are underneath (turtle): 33°25'49.45"N by 111°58'45.86"W

I'm going to edit the original post with whatever nutty stuff I find. If it's been posted before on that google maps sight seeing site, it won't be posted.

I found some sort of small plane flying over I95 near Dale City in Virginia...looks like it's an unmanned aircraft.

38°38'00.03"N, 77°17'26.27"W

I'm still looking for area 51...

you nerds are on some other shit

o'dium wrote:I'm still looking for area 51...

Um, look on the left, it's one of the sight-seeing marks... @_@

Sounds stupid, but I'm having trouble finding the Worlds tallest Building (Taipei 101), anyone found it yet??

Jesus, Indiana is 90% farmer country

Kaziganthe wrote:The other 10% is wabbits ass.

:lol:

i'm not sure you've made me lol before

unless you post screenshots, this thread is useless

Giant tire! =o

42°16'13.86"N, 83°12'32.69"W

Fuck screens, install teh app and look it up yourself. =p

Is this Mt. Everest, cuz I'm not sure if I'm looking at the right peak:

28°33'22.91"N, 84°33'03.41"E

What the heck is this, looks like a stealth fighter imprint ;s

77°33'00.52"S, 59°00'49.27"W

Synergy wrote:I found some sort of small plane flying over I95 near Dale City in Virginia...looks like it's an unmanned aircraft.

38°38'00.03"N, 77°17'26.27"W

It's either a civil plane, or a police 'bear'. It appears to be heading in for a landing at Manassas Airport, which is at 38°43'20.55"N by 77°30'50.11"W, or really any number of the dozens of small airports that surround Dulles.

Just input the coordinates in 'fly-to' with the comma, it will take you there.

Oh and where the hell is the great wall of china?

dzjepp wrote:Oh and where the hell is the great wall of china?

china

Dave wrote:

dzjepp wrote:Oh and where the hell is the great wall of china?

china

i opted against posting that. i'm glad i made the right decision.

smart alecks =p

is there any way to just PUT in the "32°39'18.21"N by 117° 6'58.58"W" Rather then look for it?

Seriously amazing technology.

AmIdYfReAk wrote:is there any way to just PUT in the "32°39'18.21"N by 117° 6'58.58"W" Rather then look for it?

Yeah put it in the search box?

I found the great wall.. it shouldnt be too hard considering it is the only man made object (or was) visible from space without a satellite

I think this fat white line is the wall, it wraps around Shenyang somewhat, but it's sorta difficult to follow from there.

40°30'26.73"N, 123°58'34.55"E

If you go east of Beijing until you get to a lake, and look almost straight north, a bit east, from Tianjin (the lake is north of there), you can see a bit of the wall northeast the lake

edit: a little clarification... look far nort of Tianjin. Tianjin is south of Beijing. You can triangulate the general area by going north from Tianjin and east from Beijing where you'll see a lake