Want to see some crazy stuff? In some areas of the world, you can zoom in to an absurd level. Pretty close to being able to actually identify an individual.
Let’s take this scene for example… some people in Africa with their herd of camels and cows, gathered around a well. I mean come on… you can see footprints, and some dude who must have known his picture was being taken, because he’s looking right at the camera. 🙂
Almost looks fake huh? Well you can see it for yourself here:
//maps.google.com/maps?f…m=1&iwloc=addr
So like maybe Google could use some of their satellites and computing power to find Osama bin Laden and collect whatever huge reward there is for him… just a suggestion for anyone listening…
Hi Shawn
AFAIK, these photos with the really high detail were taken by National Geographic from airplanes on fly-overs of the areas in question. These are actually highlighted with overlay markers as part of a collection available for Google Earth.
It almost looks like the picture was taken from a plane… there are several people looking up if you look at the whole area. And I’m pretty sure you can’t hear a satellite fly over (or see one in the daytime).
Pretty amazing stuff though!
How come if you zoom out at all you can’t zoom back in (at least not to that level)?
Well that’s far less interesting if it’s from a plane fly-over… whatever, still neat. 🙂
It’s actually a photographer on his giraffe. Did you not see the documentary about this shot on Nat Geo?
Having it on Google Maps naturally makes you think it was taken from a satellite.
It would be great for real life Where’s Wally pictures. 🙂
@ Patrick^^^: that is very interesting, I couldn’t zoom all the way back in either.
I heard you could manipulate a few variables on google earth’s url string and get closer than you could if you just clicked.
Anyone hear about this?
Ditto what others said about this is aerial footage, not satellite – in fact, this may be the shadow of the actual flyover plane caught on camera – http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/download.php%3FNumber%3D138835&om=1&ie=UTF8&z=23&ll=-19.457557,22.930057&spn=0.000121,0.000177&t=k
So like maybe Google could use some of their satellites and computing power to find Osama bin Laden and collect whatever huge reward there is for him… just a suggestion for anyone listening…
hemm, do you think FBI doesn’t know where Osama bin Laden is?
crap, Osama bin Laden has got his own servers and he is already connected to the internet…
Qaeda and Taliban have their websites, why FBI doesn’t shut them? heh
Never seen Google Map showing this close look.
Anyways, Osama wouldn’t be sitting in open to be identified and caught 😀 😉
Last I heard satellites “only” have a resolution in the double digit centimeters range, can’t remember an exact figure. To have a resolution like in the picture above you’d need a resolution of about 3 or 4 cm since you can see the eyes of a person.
By the way, didn’t you notice that there’s just a few hundred square meters (sorry, foot) available? “Let’s take this super high resolution picture and crop it so it doesn’t take up so much space.” :p
Very detailed picture, until I read the comments.
I was going to suggest be careful, if google earth was this good, there would be a whole new meaning to peeping-Tom.
Cheers
It is really … really funtastic .Never seen Google Map showing this close look.
If you copy the coordinates: 15.298499, 19.429727
into google earth it is on there as well it is just a detailed photograph (not from satlites) just one square in the middle of africa 😮
Very detailed picture
It came so close to my house, you could actually see a pile of dirt lol.
Google needs a refresh…my house is 2 years old and all google sees is a blank field!
LOL
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Seems some people are pulling water from well.
Everyone seems to see up, even the cows are looking up lol..
I wonder how often satelite updates photos.I am writing this after third month from the actual post and it still shows the same picture.
very nice to see that close image, i could not belive my eye but after some research find that it is not satelite but it is image taken from plane..
So how come a year later I still see the same guy standing there looking up? I think it’s just a picture of the area. It’s not live and they probably only have live satelite images over the developed parts of the world
Out of all these answers still nobody has answered the question best for me I would say, If you know how to zoom closer than 50 meters please let us all know.
it’s completly fake. that’s the only area that it can zoom in on, and cows get cut off.
Wow, I never tried to zoom it till I see it like that.. I’m trying to see myself lol
Yes google needs a refresh…Because sees our old Car lol he make me remember bad old days with that car hahaha
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Hello Shawn,
Fantastic image from Google. About using Google earth to find Osama, I’m afraid he’s doing to same (using Google earth) to track his next target
OMG! Pure awesomeness. I’m gonna be staring up 24/7 from now on 🙂
Yes that’s propably true using Google Earth to find the Tragets by Terrorists and By USA in her War against Islam !
Coool..