Hi Joe,
To access Google Earth you need to download software, to your PC, from the weblink Dave provided. Once you have done that you can access their satellite views and growing number of street level views. Road names, Parks, Restarant, Gas Stations Etc. It is well worth downloading the software. Erik That sounds like a great idea, Dave. For people not up on the latest
technology, could you explain how to access these views? Best wishes, Joe On Mar 8, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Dave Bennett wrote:
Hey Joe,
It would be a virtual tour of the various stargazing locales around Utah using Google Earth. It could also be very useful to someone trying to find an observing site for the first time where GE shows Lat/Long and access roads. Most of the maps on the SLAS website show only an arrow on a Utah state map to indicate the site. That may be useful if it was intended to protect a site's anonymity but, as the general idea is to help someone locate a place, not very helpful. Many of the observing sites we frequent are on public land so I don't think anonymity is the issue; the maps for private & public star party sites are all located on a page that can be viewed by non- members ( http://slas.us/starpartymaps.htm ).
The .kmz file allows people to save 'tours' and specific placemarks and send them to someone else for them to open using their own Google Earth software. Available here by the way for PC/Mac/Linux:
http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html
Dave
On Mar 8, 2008, at 10:35 AM, Joe Bauman wrote:
I'm not sure what this is, but it sounds interesting. Can anyone fill me in? Joe
Dave Bennett <dlbennett@mac.com> wrote: Hey fellow stargazers,
Would someone who's running Google Earth on a PC do me a favor and email me directly so I could send you a Google Earth placemark for the Wolf Creek observing site for a test run. Just checking to make sure the Google Earth .kmz file works cross platform.
I'd include it here but wasn't sure if an email with attachments would bounce.
Thanks!
Dave Bennett
P.S. I'm thinking about putting together a Google Earth placemark 'tour' package for some of the popular observing sites here Utah. Please let me know if any of you would be interested in such a thing and also if you have suggestions for the list. The tour could begin with a 'street level' view of Patrick's observatory ;-) db
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