June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
568 pages
24h 7m
English
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Chapter 1, Mapping Your Life
#5 The Road Less Traveled by in MapQuest
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Other Good Online Sources of Aerial Photographs
http://www.terraserver.com has been around for longer than the better-
known Microsoft Terraserver. Its interface is less sophisticated, but the site
has a better index of aerial photographs and topo maps from different
sources around the Web. It also has false-color Landsat satellite images that
cover the whole world, not just the U.S. To see what different sources of
aerial photographs and other maps it has for your area, visit http://
terraserver.com/search/coordinates_search.asp. If you’re in the U.S., you can
get the coordinates for most addresses from the http://geocoder.us/ service.
One thing to be aware of: if you’re using decimal degrees, it’s conventional
for points west of Greenwich (up to the antipode, 180 degrees away) or
below the equator, to be represented as a negative value. But terraserver.com
needs you to put in the compass direction instead of a positive or negative
value.
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#5
The Road Less Traveled by in MapQuest Hack #5
The specified route may get you where you want to be, but what about that
other road?
The interstates are fast and clean, but the Blue Highways are more than a
routing choice. The motto of the Blue Line fan is “There is more than one
way to get there.” One morning I happened to stagger into life at 9:00 A.M.,
fretting about the coming
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