In the section just east of Business park road. Business park road was
the light I went under.
David Leonard
Right about here? (From Google Maps, Street View)
Harley
That is next to the Palomar airport several miles away.
The airport is up on the hill to the left.
No picture on Google maps as far as I can tell.
Paul Lamar
This image is looking east from the Business Park Road intersection (to
the left)...and the intersection where Palomar Drive (behind the camera)
becomes San Marcos Blvd (straight ahead ...see the sign to the right).
If you double click to cross this intersection, the yellow line that
Google places in the image changes from Palomar Drive to W. San Marcos
Blvd.
I uploaded this picture as I think this is the light that Dave said he
flew under...if so, WOW! Great flying! Or "gliding" as the case may be
to miss those wires as well!
According to Google Maps (and Google Earth) the location in this image
is 3 miles east of the Palomar airport (along Palomar Airport Road).
These images continue updating unbroken along the roads for several
miles in every direction.
Harley
I stand corrected.
I also learned something about google maps.
Amazing. How do they get all these panoramic pictures?
Paul Lamar
They have a camera mount that has 11 cameras pointing in all directions
mounted to the top of a vehicle. It simultaneously loads the GPS
coordinates with each picture it takes as the vehicle moves along the roads.
A weird looking thing...I saw it on top of a Volkswagen when it went
past my house...had no idea what it was until I saw the explanation on
Google at a later time. The shots past my parents house includes one of
his neighbors out getting his mail!
It's not all perfect, though...I just checked out the NYS Thruway to the
Buffalo airport yesterday, (driving there to pick up a friend from
Phoenix today) and there was a bunch of shots taken directly into the
setting sun! Just sun glare...no detail!
They also use man powered vehicles. Google just announced, on the local
TV stations here, that are going to mount one on a tricycle and pedal
around RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology, here in Henrietta) to put
that "on the map" (so-to-speak). Here's what that vehicle looks like:
www.rit.edu/news/?v=47377
Harley
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