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Google Earth time machine - 4/8/2009 7:47:20 AM

MikeBrough

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I should really take the time to search back through the Google Earth forums but life is short and you guys are knowledgeable. I've just reinstalled Google Earth after a PC rebuild and the image of my house is now from 4 or 5 years back - before the crash the image was from the last 2 years or so. I can tell because we chopped our hedge down about 5 years ago and set up a large trampoline 2 years ago.

Any idea why they would put older imagery up to replace newer stuff?

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RE: Google Earth time machine - 4/8/2009 8:10:18 AM

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Maybe there are some "very_secret_military_or_other_strategic_facilities" in neighbourhood build last years, and they are keeping them in secret.

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RE: Google Earth time machine - 4/8/2009 10:29:40 AM

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Maybe there are some "very_secret_military_or_other_strategic_facilities" in neighbourhood build last years, and they are keeping them in secret.

The trampoline looked like a UFO and you know how "they" like to keep this kind of stuff under wraps

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RE: Google Earth time machine - 4/8/2009 11:12:25 AM

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I will let you know soon..First I need to find my tin foil hat

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RE: Google Earth time machine - 4/8/2009 11:58:34 AM

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Sorry....but in light of a recent thread hijacked for personal propaganda reasons by certain individuals...what does this have to do with wargaming?

This isn't actually aimed at you specifically MikeBrough

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RE: Google Earth time machine - 4/8/2009 12:00:52 PM

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Judge, it is connected to wargaming.
You can wage wars with unproper maps. If google will put old ones then what about our wargames?

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RE: Google Earth time machine - 4/8/2009 2:02:20 PM

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Judge, it is connected to wargaming.
You can wage wars with unproper maps. If google will put old ones then what about our wargames?

I'd pay good money for a Google Earth Map of the Ardennes sometime around December 16th, 1944

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RE: Google Earth time machine - 4/8/2009 2:21:43 PM

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Can you see the borders?

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RE: Google Earth time machine - 4/8/2009 2:57:35 PM

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Can you see the borders?

Yes - they are flatly wrong, probably date from around 1990

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RE: Google Earth time machine - 4/8/2009 3:16:35 PM

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I've seen this map before in a paper magazine and IIRC it is actual map of Europe (Yugoslavia is already divided).

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RE: Google Earth time machine - 4/8/2009 3:41:33 PM

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I've seen this map before in a paper magazine and IIRC it is actual map of Europe (Yugoslavia is already divided).

But the Czech and Slovak Republics aren't ...

Anyway - pretty immaterial to the point that this ain't a map of September 1st, 1939 as the title claims

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RE: Google Earth time machine - 4/8/2009 7:47:53 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd

Sorry....but in light of a recent thread hijacked for personal propaganda reasons by certain individuals...what does this have to do with wargaming?

This isn't actually aimed at you specifically MikeBrough

I knew I'd find something if I went back far enough. I give you this

Sorry, Judge, no offence intended - couldn't resist it.

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RE: Google Earth time machine - 4/8/2009 8:11:12 PM

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No probs Mike. I wasn't actually saying you shouldn't. I have always used the General Discussion forum for exactly that...general discussion. It appears, though, that General Discussion is not what it's for.

The point of my post was that it has recently transpired that the General Discussion forum isn't that at all. It is in fact a General Discussion forum for wargaming. It isn't even for history! Go figure.

I was pointing it out now that we have been told

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RE: Google Earth time machine - 4/8/2009 8:27:39 PM

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quote:

But the Czech and Slovak Republics aren't ...

Are you sure

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RE: Google Earth time machine - 4/9/2009 6:58:03 AM

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quote:

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No probs Mike. I wasn't actually saying you shouldn't. I have always used the General Discussion forum for exactly that...general discussion. It appears, though, that General Discussion is not what it's for.

The point of my post was that it has recently transpired that the General Discussion forum isn't that at all. It is in fact a General Discussion forum for wargaming. It isn't even for history! Go figure.

I was pointing it out now that we have been told

Thanks for pointing that out, Judge. I'm a bit surprised - I wonder where we go for our general, non-wargaming related discussions, then? Don't really want to go to Doggie's place. Might have to make some real-life friends now. <Polishes up social skills>

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RE: Google Earth time machine - 4/9/2009 7:18:29 AM

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I wonder where we go for our general, non-wargaming related discussions, then? Don't really want to go to Doggie's place. Might have to make some real-life friends now. <Polishes up social skills>

Have you considered Usenet's war-historical group ?

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical

A quick look will convince you *nothing* is off-topic there and social skills are optional

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RE: Google Earth time machine - 4/9/2009 7:19:45 AM

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But the Czech and Slovak Republics aren't ...

Are you sure

No.

Care to address my main point that the map is totally wrong for the date given ?

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RE: Google Earth time machine - 4/9/2009 7:46:08 AM

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quote:

Care to address my main point that the map is totally wrong for the date given ?

I was thinking this has been already agreed.

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RE: Google Earth time machine - 4/9/2009 8:17:33 AM

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quote:

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quote:

ORIGINAL: MikeBrough
I wonder where we go for our general, non-wargaming related discussions, then? Don't really want to go to Doggie's place. Might have to make some real-life friends now. <Polishes up social skills>

Have you considered Usenet's war-historical group ?

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical

A quick look will convince you *nothing* is off-topic there and social skills are optional

Greetz,

Eddy Sterckx

Cheers, Eddie. Already a long-time lurker and occasional poster as 'thedevilsadvocaat'. Not the same class of people, though - your good self excepted.

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RE: Google Earth time machine - 4/9/2009 9:02:26 AM

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Cheers, Eddie. Already a long-time lurker and occasional poster as 'thedevilsadvocaat'. Not the same class of people, though - your good self excepted.

LOL - why make an exception for me ?

- I feel at home there, always have, it's a bar with regularly scheduled fights and heated discussions among regulars who've been there for over a decade. In here I have to watch how I call bs on what somebody types, over there I just let fly - it's really therapeutic

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