More High Resolution SA Cities for Google Earth

[fergus]

2 interesting sites for this are Google Sightseeing and Perljam. Each has a directory of intesting sights to see with Google Maps/Earth, like the White House.

 

[Retnox]

Umm I got some really nice high res air photos of the whole of Tshwane... (i.e. I can see the pool cleaner in the pool) I have a couple of probs.

1. I don't own the copyright on them.
2. Its over 20GB so I cant sent it to the google guys. (Becides I don't see a submission page)
3. Even if I could get the guys that have the copyright to agree, how would you contact the guys that run google earth?

 

[Karnaugh]

Uhm? Durban is still very much low res!

 

[Claymore]

Well you got to admit, Durbs and Cape Town are much prettier to look at than Joburg. I mean, whats your guys main attractions, a couple of mine dumps and the Telkom tower? Can't blaim em if you ask me

Eh? World's largest man-made non-commecial forest? Cape Twon is a wasteland in comparison.

 

[Twisted]

Where can we send requests for hi res maps of certain areas just outside cape town

Where i live i can see a blur but no hi res like other areas of cape town and tygervalley.

 

[Siembambaa]

Saw my car in the driveway

 

[gumby]

A question about connecting - I installed google earth earlier today and covered much of the globe, however the connection failed at some point and I haven't been able to reconnect since. I noticed a post from a few days back that someone else had the same problem, anyone know what it might be? My internet connection is fine, just google earth doesn't connect. Do any ISPs / telkom block google earth? Judging from the times of the posts here it seems some of you have been more successful, so I assume the google earth servers aren't the cause.

 

[crbuys]

Connection Problems

Hi all,

I'm also struggeling to connect since this am.

 

[rsd]

Explanation:

http://earth.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=21675&topic=1136

(No solution given for free users )

 

[Twisted]

Get Google Pro works like a dream

By the way, anyone know who we can contact to submit some updates and better res maps for some areas in cape town?

 

[ambo]

I very much doubt whether there is any way to submit photos to google... all the photos are sourced from satalite networks and not from normal aeiral photos.

What you can do however - if you have legal puplic domain hi-res pics - is write KML file (a version of XML) that can be used to add extra content to the GE images: including markers, roads, feature names and even entire images can be aligned over portions of the map.

Anyone know of any interesting KML resources for South Africa...

 

[PeeVee]

I have noticed the same thing...Waterkloof is particularly well covered

What I noticed is that all the areas which could be construed to be "sensitive" i.e. Military bases, strategic points etc. are all very well covered.
I know of quite a few of these areas which are not generally known about and they are all highly defined in Google Earth.
Fortunately my house is in one of these areas and you could almost make out my dogs
Given the size of the shrubs and trees on my property I would say that the image is cose to three years old though.

Very nice app, quite addictive, but beware - Heavy on bandwidth.