Google Earth Tourism

[vincegamer]

A couple of us (so far the only ones willing to admit it are me and Supervike) have been using the Google Earth with the CMON info from Etherion and we\'ve been looking at famous places.
This thread will be dedicated to locating neat places we see on the Google Earth map.

Each entry should include the name of an interesting place to look at and the latitude and longitude of said place.

I\'d prefer if that was all that you posted here, but I know this place better than that

So pardon the double post that follows, but I want to give an example.

 

[vincegamer]

The Hollywood Sign
34:08\'02\"N, 118:19\'18\"W

World Trade Center site
40:42\'42\"N 70:00\'48\"W

 

[airhead]

I\'ll kick in a few local flavor spots:

Nasa\'s Vehicle Assembly Building
28 35\' 10\" N
80 39\' 04\" W

Disney\'s Epcot Ball
28 22\' 31\" N
81 32\' 58\" W

 

[ipaintminis]

I\'ve been doing this for days!

some good ones i\'ve found

Mt St. Helens
46* 11\' 32 N
122* 11\' 15 W

Grand Canyon
36* 10\' 19 N
112* 14\' 28 W

Niagra Falls
43* 05\' 13 N
79* 04\' 03 W

Three Sisters
44* 07\' 17
121* 48\' 25



i\'ll keep looking.....


oh yeah....there is a boat driving in the NY harbor

 

[Duende]

A couple more:

Chesapeake Bay Bridge:

37°01\'40.70\"N 76°05\'06.59\"W

Those gaps in the bridge are places where the road goes under the water to make it easier for ships to go past. Fun to drive through!

The Pentagon:

38°52\'15.52\"N 77°03\'21.18\"W


And one of my favorite vacation spots-
Chinoteague, VA:

37°56\'14.23\"N 75°21\'33.89\"W

 

[supervike]

uber cool!

This is great Vince!

St Louis Arch:

38 11\'27.30\"N
90 11\'05.31\"W

Eiffel Tower:

48 51\'29.21\"N
2 17\'39.17\"E

 

[Wolf_Fang]

Fort George

43\'\'15\'2.71 N

79\'\'03\'39.95 W

elevation 249 ft


Fort Niagra..

just across the river on the point

 

[vincegamer]

Nazca Lines 14.7130395379 S, 75.1478601201 W

Becca, I never thought to look at Niagara. Bodies of water get very funky when you set elevation exageration to 2.

And for anyone who says there are no mountains in Oklahoma, here\'s Mount Scott.
34*44\'40\"N 98*31\'54\"W
(see, Oklahoma isn\'t as flat as Kansas!)

 

[Talion]

N 43o 52\' 45.17\"
W 103o 27\' 33.90\"

Mount Rushmore

Zoom in close enough and you can just make out some of the faces

N 48o 51\' 31.90\"
W 2o 17\' 40.01

Eiffel Tower (rather flat though)

 

[JimG]

Some Historic Sites

The Acropolis, Athens, Greece
37 58 16 N
23 43 34 E

Avebury, UK
51 25 42 N
1 51 14 W

Pyramids and Sphinx
29 58 34 N
31 07 56 E

I went to
Macchu Picchu, Peru
and
Ayers Rock, Australia
But they were so fuzzy there was no sense.

And, Finally, since everyone seems to be sending local landmarks
West Edmonton Mall Water park,
53 31 18 N
113 37 34 W
You can actually see the slides.... go figure.

 

[Duende]

A couple more interesting ones,

The Space Needle in Seattle WA (it\'s got a shadow you can still see from 15000 ft up!):

47°37\'13.71\"N, 122°20\'57.04\"W


The Hoover Dam at the AZ/NV border:

36°00\'56.77\"N, 114°44\'16.04\"W

This program is so cool!

*EDIT*
And for the Canadains, the \"sister\" to the Space Needle,
The CN Tower in Toronto:

43°38\'32.62\"N, 79°23\'13.71\"W

 

[vincegamer]

Oklahoma National Memorial (former cite of the Alphred P. Murrah building - the Oklahoma City bombing site)
35 28 24 N 97 31 01 W


At first I couldn\'t figure out what this was and thought it must have been a joke by some techies. I think it\'s real though. This is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\'s new building being built. It is the site of the old Building 13, where RADAR was invented.
42 21 42 N 71 05 26 W

 

[No Such Agency]

Jeez, would it have killed them to have a simple right-click \"copy coordinates to clipboard\" feature? It drives me nuts that there\'s no basic right-click menu on this thing.

A few spiritual landmarks:

St. Peter\'s Basilica, Vatican City, Italy:
41°54\'8.01\"N, 12°27\'11.18\"E

Westminster Abbey, London, England:
51°29\'57.63\"N, 0° 7\'37.93\"W

The Kaaba, Mecca, Saudi Arabia:
21°25\'19.74\"N, 39°49\'34.60\"E

The Hagia Sofia, Istanbul, Turkey:
41° 0\'30.01\"N, 28°58\'49.29\"E

 

[Garyo]

Not a very hi-res image, but Angkor Wat:

13 25 13.26N
103 51 53.71E




Garyo

 

[Evil Dave]

Area 51
37 14 28.10 N
115 48 50.00 W

 

[Beelzebrush]

Google Earth is ace.... been doing the same thing too...

Everest is worth a visit along with the rest of the Himalayan peaks....

Co-ords

27º58\'42.53\" N
86º55\'30.25\" E

 

[DragonPaint]

Your trip in Italy starts here:

Rome,
the Colosseum
41°53\'24.72\"N
12°29\'31.09\"E

Naples,
The Vesuvio (active volcano)
40°49\'15.75\"N
14°25\'31.82\"E

Pompei (archeologic site, the roman city was covered by an ancient Vesuvio eruption, you can see the walls of the ancient city)
40°44\'58.25\"N
14°29\'8.56\"E

Florence,
The Chatedral with the Giotto\'s tower
43°46\'23.72\"N
11°15\'21.64\"E
Near this site (up and a bit left) you can see the Brunelleschi\'s Dome, une of the symbols of Florence.

Milan,
The Dome
45°27\'50.99\"N
9°11\'28.01\"E

Sforza\'s Castle
45°28\'13.05\"N
9°10\'45.75\"E

Venice,
San Marco\'s Place
45°26\'2.10\"N
12°20\'15.47\"E

Torino,
Porte Palatine, ruins of a roman theatre and the Sand Giovanni\'s Dome (with the Holy Shroud Chapel)
45° 4\'27.21\"N
7°41\'4.24\"E

I think it\'s enough for the first trip

Paolo

 

[MarkusTay]

Originally posted by Evil Dave
Area 51
37 14 28.10 N
115 48 50.00 W

Great (Evil) minds think alike.

Thanks Dave, I\'ve been looking for this. It was a tiny bit further west then I was searching.

@Vincegamer - I don\'t know what you were looking at, but these are the co-ordinates for the WTC -
40º42\'42.88\" N
74º00\'48.14\" W
In fact, if you just type New York City into the search engine the site will be in the lower left corner.

The Huge Statue of Christ in Rio De Janeiro -
22º57\'08.80\" S
43º12\'42.05\" W

I wish I could unzip that Famp file.

 

[Duende]

You are trying to open the file with the Google Earth program right? Not just going to whereever you saved it and opening it directly? I\'ve had no problems with any of the files and my computer\'s a piece of crap.

???

 

[Astorderire]

\"Gai Paris\"

Arc de triomphe
48 52 25.51 N
2 17 41.24 E

Place de la Concorde ( Obelisque )
48 51 55.88 N
2 19 15.72 E
The street between that 2 places is \"Les Champs élysés \"

Pyramide du Louvres
48 51 39.72 N
2 20 08.84 E

Jussieu- université Paris 7
48 50 49.30 N
2 21 22.83 E
Not a famous place yet, but as I spent 4 years there... and it\'s ugly from space.

Cimetiere du Pere Lachaise
48 51 33.10 N
2 24 01.99 E
I don\'t know the precise location of Morrison\'s grave

La Sorbonne- université Paris 1
48 50 57.90 N
2 20 37.86 E

Notre Dame de Paris
48 51 10.80 N
2 20 59.22 E

Place de la Bastille
48 51 11.29 N
2 22 08.36 E

And \"le Mont St Michel\"
48 38 08.94 N
1 30 40 59 E