Google Earth Your Layout!

[Anonymous]

If they can see mine (it's indoors), then I want them arrested for being a peeping Tom

[Anonymous]

Yeah, ya'll live either near town or close to it cause mine ain't working

PO Toad

[lownote]

Brian, that's a nice track plan--great combination of visual appeal and operation. Mine is set up pretty much all for "looks" but I suspect over time it will be amended

[altterrain]

I'm playing. I wound up using Mike's suggestion of the MS live search. Its much more current and gives you multiple views. I wound up printing it out and using a sharpie to mark the layout -

The trackage looks like this -

 

-Brian 

[Anonymous]

1st don't know how to cap the area.

2nd my area is so HIGH up in da woods you cann't see squat!

Toad

[lownote]

Despite the fact--or maybe because of the fact--that we live a few miles from the Pentagon, Google Earth and Google maps have a very old photo of our house, nearly ten years old. I had better luck with microsoft's mapping site, "livesearch, which gives you a "bird's eye view." But our railroad is brand new, so the picture doesn't show it. I did my best to add the track plan but it's off by a good bit

 

 

 

[Mt Beenak]

Has this game been played before?

I noticed that Google Earth has increased the resolution over our place.  (Does this mean we are due for an invasion?...it happened in Iraq).  I took a screen capture of the page [ctrl + Print Screen], pasted it into 'Paint', then drew in the trackplan. (very roughly). 

For scale, the garage is 4.5 metres wide (14 feet 10 inches) Here are a couple of older aerial views, in higher resolution, taken from the garage roof.

Anyone else want to play?

Mick