A new way to spot Miata owners

Oops.

No Miata under the truck (fortunately).

The truck was mostly meant as a funny starting point plus it illustrated who the amount of details caught on Google Earth. My whole post is sort of inspired by an article describing how the resolution in the pictures covering Aarhus (the second largest city in Denmark) has been increased to 10 cm (3.9") as opposed to the 40 cm (15.7") which is the normal resolution for the rest of the country.

The higher resolution sort of makes it possible to spot a Miata even without knowing it's location beforehand so I though it could be fun if a few was located simply using Google Earth. I used a couple of minutes my self and I do think I found one:

There are something like 500-600 Miata's on the roads in Denmark sure povided they are distributed evenly some 40-50 should be home in the Aarhus area.

Kind regards Bruno

Is this cheating? :-)

Pat

Not anymore than this is:

:-)

Dana P.S. Mine used to be parked right about there.

The pictures for my area are so old that they show trees that were removed years ago, and a race track that has not been a race track for twenty years. Heck, you can hardly make out where my house is, let alone what might be in the driveway. Just to add insult to injury, the postal address overlay is also wrong, and shows a forty year old (incorrect) address assignment for the houses on the entire street. The assignment may be the one before the lots were sold and houses were built in the late 1960s and early 70s. This error also exists in the data base sold by the post office to the map makers and the GPS software developers (2005 version). Because of the presence of a local AFB that many years ago, had B-52s on alert status, the east side of town (vicinity of the base) had no detail on many maps for years. This finally changed when satellite maps from commercial sources showed the details. Another clue to the age of the data is that the road was moved slightly between 1980 and 1985. The road change is shown, but the street overlay still shows the old routing. Oh, Well!

"Dana Myers" wrote in message news:rr2dnfZf582PM_DanZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com...

This is a little scary. The car on the right is my first Miata, the wrecked 1996 "M" Edition. Next to it is the 1991 Silverstone, and unless I am mistaken, that is me between the two Miatas, about halfway done taking the tan car cover off of the wrecked '96M.

I guess the images are around 3 years old now. It has been a while since I have been at that location.

Pat

"Chuck" wrote

Similar here. Google Earth has my house pinpointed a block down the street. The resolution is so bad that the red blob in the drive *MAY* be my wife's '90 Miata....or our long gone 1976 Datsun pickup truck. Our house has the old roof from years ago, one neighbor's home addition is not there and our huge oak tree doesn't show to be much more than a sapling. Perhaps being so close to the Pentagon, the resolution and age of the satellite images are restricted.

It's good to know the Chinese occupiers will be able to track everybody down using google earth after the invasion. The lucky people will be the ones whoes houses are a block off target, thus giving them a little time to escape. The real problems will start if a missle knocks out our GPS, and staillite phone, systems. Google earth, and their ilk, have pretty much removed anyone's right to privacy.

Indeed. I had to stop wearing my tinfoil hat after seeing how well it showed up on Google Earth. I mean, what's the point of shielding your brainwaves when everyone can see where you were five years ago?

Whence comes this "right"?

There is a very common misconception that the US Constitution guarantees the right to privacy, it does not except in a very limited way.

Begging the question.

From whence do "rights" derive?

Bigger guns & bigger money. It has always been human nature that the more powerful have more rights than those that they can control.

I don't see that one ever changing.

Pat

I love wikipedia. Very informative.

Chris

The only problem is it's hard to tell when an article is accurate. It's pretty good, overall, but some authors have agendas, and they can get away with considerable mischief unless someone makes a fuss.