[GeoStL] Re: NGR: Interesting Area on Google Earth
- From: "Gale R. Nie" <showme69@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 12:31:59 -0500
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Cool.
Gale
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From: "motex" <motexoutlaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 11:52 AM
Subject: [GeoStL] NGR: Interesting Area on Google Earth
> -
> Copy coordinates below and paste them in Google Earth and see what's
> there.
>
> 30° 4'7.69"N 97° 8'26.03"W
>
> This is southwest of Austin, TX. I found this information on the Houston
> Geocaching Association Web Site.
>
>
>
> Land owner David Luecke Says:
> Well, half of you are right. This land is my land (yes, really). As my
> nephew Pete already pointed out, I did it for the hell of it. I was going
> to
> open a golf course, but decided not to. If you look in the "L", you can
> see
> 4 holes of my private "course", though I haven't maintained it in a couple
> of years now (due to some surgerys preventing my game), so you might not
> be
> able to make it out. My son showed me on the Google Earth program, and you
> could indeed see the bunkers and barely make out the fairways. Nifty
> program
> there, and good eye to all of you folk! Cheers!
>
>>From another geocacher: That pops up occasionally on lists of weird thing
>>in
> GE. The amazing think is that the word is 2.5 miles long. In fact
> because
> it can be measured precicely,NASA uses it to help calculate resolution on
> images taken from space. See last paragraph of "5.5. Empirical
> Confirmation
> of Spatial Resolution Estimates" on the NASA webpage
>
>
>
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