Google Earth
I’ve taken to surfing the earth from the skies. Google Earth. Now that they have a fairly detailed aerial photograph of Chennai, I’ve become addicted to locating famous landmarks in the city just by their aerial view.
So far, I’ve identified the airport, Kathipara junction, Ashok Pillar and the two nearby theatres, Gemini flyover, Shastri Bhavan, to mention a few. Unfortunately, the hi-res map is available only for a limited area of Chennai, bounded by Adyar Depot and Music Academy in the east and by Sterling Road junction and CMBT in the north. The map however, extends south a fair distance, and by my reckoning, covers Perungudi, almost upto Shozhinganallur. In the west, it seems to terminate outside the city limits, but I’m not too familiar with that region.
April 4th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
Any luck finding ur home??
Rukmani Rd rite…
April 5th, 2006 at 7:04 am
@Sreecharan: The tragic part is that the hi-res imagery is not available beyond L.B. Road in the east, so Besant Nagar is totally missed out…
April 5th, 2006 at 10:24 pm
Dont know why those satellites thought of turning back after LB Rd…..would hav been great if it had grabbed a snapshot of the Eliots Beach on a evening.
November 28th, 2006 at 11:25 pm
Hi All Experts,
Does anyone use google earth images as ground image planes for use in aerial scenes. I know how to stitch them together but are there any tools or tricks to make sure that the images are at the same height, angle and such to make sure they stitch well. I know in the pro version you can get bigger images but im not going to pay for the pro version when i could stitch multiple images together…