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Post by ginnycat5 on Aug 4, 2005 15:38:31 GMT -5
This site is lots of fun, also lots of info. My Mac won't run it at home, but at my brotherinlaw's I flew over Korea and saw how mountainous it is, even near the coast. Today there are many small towns in narrow river valleys among mountains. It might be possible to find sites of battles, using current maps as a guide.
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Post by chigirl68 on Aug 4, 2005 15:59:22 GMT -5
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Post by Ginnycat unlogged on Aug 4, 2005 17:08:26 GMT -5
That's a good one. But I have "Google" on my favorites list. When I'm in Google, I type in Google earth. Then, at my BIL's computer, I get the home page of google earth. Somehow I got a place to type in Seoul, and the camera zoomed in, from a pic of the whole planet. It worked for Evanston, and Chicago, and Cambridge,MA, but not for my little hometown in Connecticut.
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Post by Daemado on Aug 4, 2005 18:18:03 GMT -5
Here's another good source for Korea maps: www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/korea/250k.htmlDownload "NI 52-5" and "NI 52-6" and you can get a good feel for the area of operations. Myongnyang is between Jindo and the mainland on NI 52-5, while most of the early battles were fought in the Koje-do area on NI 52-6.
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Post by Maalii on Aug 4, 2005 20:02:00 GMT -5
Yeah, a friend of mine just alerted me to Google Earth a few days ago. I too am a Mac user but my wife has a fairly new PC (which sits right next to the Mac in the home office), so I fired the PC up and it ran seamlessly. The satellite photo overlay over the DEM varies in quality and resolution from place to place (in low res areas forested areas are just green blurs, whereas other areas are so good you can almost pick out climbing routes on peaks), but it's pretty amazing overall. One spend so much time flying around the world on this thing that by the time you quit your eyes have truly been strained. It is great fun.
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Post by chigirl68 on Aug 5, 2005 7:24:00 GMT -5
That's a good one. But I have "Google" on my favorites list. When I'm in Google, I type in Google earth. Then, at my BIL's computer, I get the home page of google earth. Somehow I got a place to type in Seoul, and the camera zoomed in, from a pic of the whole planet. It worked for Evanston, and Chicago, and Cambridge,MA, but not for my little hometown in Connecticut. I see. I use Yahoo more than Google so if others are the same it could be confusing. Thanks again for the info. It took up a lot of my time yesterday . (adicting) Very fun and interesting tho.
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Post by letterman on Aug 7, 2005 9:18:05 GMT -5
Great idea ginnycat............I have just discovered google earth myself and I have been having a great time with it..........Checking out Korea is a great idea and comparing with historical maps..............I'm going to work on that....My only problem now is if I start spending any more time on this computer that Ialready do now I'm afraid my wife will explode...........
Thanx for the info......................john letterman..
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Post by TheBo on Aug 7, 2005 11:32:14 GMT -5
i went to google earth, and they said they do not presently support Macs but are working on it, and also they do not support most WIN systems more than 4 years old.
Anyway, there is a similar thing at terraserver.microsoft.com that works just fine on my Mac. There are a number of these on line, try googling "terraserver."
Bo
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