[GeoStL] Re: NGR: Interesting Area on Google Earth
- From: "Ryan Welker" <ryan.welker@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:52:42 -0500
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Here is another interesting area that I found out from reading the St
Charles Journal the other day. N38 53.608 W90 55.287 You will have to zoom
into the 500-200 foot level to see it best. -ryan
On 4/14/07, Gale R. Nie <showme69@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Cool.
>
> Gale
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "motex" <motexoutlaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 11:52 AM
> Subject: [GeoStL] NGR: Interesting Area on Google Earth
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> > 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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