[GeoStL] Re: NGR: Interesting Area on Google Earth
- From: "Gale R. Nie" <showme69@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:22:14 -0500
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I'll be going right by there tomorrow on my way up north for turkey season.
Too bad it's been harvested.
Gale
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Welker" <ryan.welker@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:52 PM
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: NGR: Interesting Area on Google Earth
> -
> 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:
>>
>> -
>> Cool.
>>
>> Gale
>>
>>
>> ----- 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
>>
>>
>> > -
>> > 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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