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Cabaal · 17-12-2007 9:21am #1

Google Maps has improved its imagery for parts of Kilkenny County and City, finally you can actually see details on buildings

Stephen · 17-12-2007 11:20am

At last! They've had great imagery of Carlow for ages.

Cabaal · 17-12-2007 11:43am

Its piss poor quality compared to other places...appears to eb alot of cloud cover the day they did it.

They only have updated to cover a small part6 of waterford as well

mike65 · 17-12-2007 11:47am

Its all blue. Waterford is 90% missing still, Google is clearly not much pushed to serve us.
The Saudi desert has better detail.

Mike.

Stephen · 17-12-2007 11:50am

Just looked at it there - all of Kilkenny city seems to be the same old low-res stuff as before?

Deliverance XXV · 17-12-2007 3:25pm

About time really!

Stephen wrote: »

Just looked at it there - all of Kilkenny city seems to be the same old low-res stuff as before?

Try the newest version of Google Earth, it too, has been updated and looks fairly well.

Stephen · 17-12-2007 3:54pm

Cool, will have a look at that when I'm home. Only have access to the web maps here .

finlma · 17-12-2007 4:56pm

Good to see Kilkenny updated but it's strange that the pictures they have used are at least 2 years old. I know this cause my old pair built a house which started 2 years ago but it's still a green site in the aerial shots.

mike65 · 17-12-2007 5:18pm

That interesting, I assumed that if they had higher-res they would have used them long since or be newish.

Mike.

Stephen · 17-12-2007 7:39pm

Heh, check out the ring road works on it - its like a massive brown trench around the north of the city.

Nightwish · 17-12-2007 7:57pm

mike65 wrote: »

Its all blue. Waterford is 90% missing still, Google is clearly not much pushed to serve us.
The Saudi desert has better detail.

Mike.

But no one has been spying on us for the past few decades.

fricatus · 17-12-2007 8:58pm

Stephen wrote: »

Heh, check out the ring road works on it - its like a massive brown trench around the north of the city.

Tells you how long they've been working on it :rolleyes:

JohnC. · 17-12-2007 9:35pm

finlma wrote: »

Good to see Kilkenny updated but it's strange that the pictures they have used are at least 2 years old. I know this cause my old pair built a house which started 2 years ago but it's still a green site in the aerial shots.

The images were taken on 20/11/2005.

Echelle · 17-12-2007 10:37pm

A lot of the local authority web sites( planning section of the web sites) have
good aerial photos combined with maps. From recollection Kilkenny, Waterford and Laois have these available on their sites. Much clearer than the low res Google earth photos.

Plug · 18-12-2007 10:03pm

I can see my house and black golf.

Nightwish · 18-12-2007 10:14pm

my mothers old car is in the driveway!

Plug · 18-12-2007 10:30pm

will they make kk clearer?

Deliverance XXV · 18-12-2007 10:33pm

Cant see it happening, considering how long it took for them to even get low-res pics up!

But it's nice to see all the villages are visible also.

Plug · 22-12-2007 5:24pm

Anyone land the plane at kk airfield yet? i did its a bit tricky though becasue its short.

Deliverance XXV · 22-12-2007 10:57pm

Plug wrote: »

Anyone land the plane at kk airfield yet? i did its a bit tricky though becasue its short.

I tried it and found it to be too finicky. That, along with my short attention span spelled disaster for it from the start!

For the people who don't know what that is all about, there is a hidden flight sim
in Google Earth.
Here is the link to how to access it and it's controls.

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