It looks bigger than I expected :)
Do you see Mantaz there? No? That's because he's stuck in the elevator..

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/Vilnius_space.jpg


Considering that the zoom levels are the same, let's compare with Moscow :D
(just for the fun of it)
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/Moscow_space2.jpg

:laugh:
Hehe

cool i can see my house from there!

That's awesome! Where did you find them?

It looks bigger than I expected :)
Do you see Mantaz there? No? That's because he's stuck in the elevator..
:laugh:
Hehe
Come on now, sOmeOne! :poke: Mantaz isn't stuck in an elevator in Vilnius! :laugh: Unless of course he's stuck in an elevator in Atlanta, but that's not too likely considering the lowrise sprawl there. :D Yet thank you for the show, although we all know that Moscow is several times larger than Vilnius. Big country, huge capital; small country, smaller capital, that's quite obvious and perfectly normal. :)

Boogy, you can find your house? :eek: I thought I had a least a basic handle on Vilnius, but now I'm all confused again. :dunno:

That's awesome! Where did you find them?

That's a secret ;)
I have sattelite pics of almost any city on this planet, that includes Lithuania.
So if you want to see more pics of Lithuanian cities, just give me some names :)

May I take you up on that, sOmeOne? :) How about Kaunas and Klaipeda?

Give me 15 mins ;)

Very cool pictures. Vilnius looks quite large too. :)
Is it possible to see Helsinki?

Kaunas
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/Kaunas_space.jpg


Klaipeda
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/Klaipeda_space.jpg

Is it possible to see Helsinki?

Everything is possible :)
Helsinki \/
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/Helsinki_space.jpg

Show me Oslo! pleeeeeaze!! :D

Show me Oslo! pleeeeeaze!! :D
Your wish is my command :D

Oslo \/

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/Oslo_space.jpg

Oslo is pretty big! :yes:

Thanks sOmeOne, could you reveal your source? :)

I can see my apartment :cucumber:

Thanks sOmeOne, could you reveal your source? :)

I can see my apartment :cucumber:
Let's just say I got a hold of a big fat spy sattelite ;)
Sorry, but the source is confidential :)

The point is - you are being watched :nono:

AWSOME, thank you so much sOmeOne!! My workplace is exactly where the picture ends in the west. At that small river there. And My home is pretty much in the center of the picture.

Oslo is pretty big!
yeah, it's very widespread and sprawling for a european city. The suburb-built up area continues for about 10 kilometers further west of this image.

As a thank you, here is a norwegian commieblock that will wet you pants :D
http://img51.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/P1010005.jpg

AWSOME, thank you so much sOmeOne!! My workplace is excactly where the picture ends in the west. At that small river there. And My home is pretty much in the center of the picture.


yeah, it's very widespread and sprawling for a european city. The suburb-built up area continues for about 10 kilometers further west of this image.

As a thank you, here is a norwegian commiblock that will wet you pants :D
http://img51.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/P1010005.jpg

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Thanks :D

:drool:

Astounding, sOmeOne! :okay: I must say I'm envious of you for having gotten a hold of that big fat spy satellite, but of course I am much too polite to ask you any inopportune questions. :angel:

Looking over these pictures I find that coastal cities are particularly fascinating to look at. :eek: So I ask that you maybe also come up with Riga and Tallinn? Pretty please? :master: I think that those two capitals' location on the Baltic would make for some stunning pictures. :) And of course the same goes for Stockholm and Copenhagen! :cheers:

And Berkeley or SF aswell, if it's possible! :)

Astounding, sOmeOne! :okay: I must say I'm envious of you for having gotten a hold of that big fat spy sattelite, but of course I am much too polite to ask you any inopportune questions. :angel:

Looking over these pictures I find that coastal cities are particularly fascinating to look at. :eek: So I ask that you maybe also come up with Riga and Tallinn? Pretty please? :master: I think that those two capitals' location on the Baltic would make for some stunning pictures. :) And of course the same goes for Stockholm and Copenhagen! :cheers:

:)
No problem. Takes a while to operate this thing to get pics though..



Tallinn
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/Tallinn_space.jpg


Riga
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/Riga_space.jpg


Stockholm
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/Stockholm_space.jpg


Copenhagen
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/Copenhagen_space.jpg


I feel like a sattelite freak now :D

And Berkeley or SF aswell, if it's possible! :)


Berkley (not sure which one is actually Berkley - somewhere in the middle though)
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/Berkley_space.jpg


San Francisco
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/SF_space.jpg

:master: you're the man, sOmeOne!:)
Thanks!

:rofl: for that Norwegian commieblock, NorthStar! :)

Now that we're on the subject, I can't help sharing a commieblock picture with you that Vaidas took during his recent vacation, a commieblock cluster in Bern, Switzerland:

http://img50.photobucket.com/albums/v152/v4idas/swiss/PICT3761.jpg

Of course Switzerland isn't exactly known for its flourishing commieblock culture--quite the contrary! :cool: In fact, beautiful examples of the indigenous Swiss architecture, both in small and large places, can be found in Vaidas' lavushly illustrated travelogue in the foreign architecture section of the Lithuanian forum (http://tinkle.miestai.net/viewtopic.php?t=336&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0). :okay:


And thank you for Riga, Tallinn, Stockholm and Copenhagen as well, sOmeOne! :) Interesting shorelines make for great pictures! :cool:

Thanks also for posting SF and Berkeley in the meantime, sOmeOne! I must admit I have a hard time figuring out where exactly Berkeley is myself ... :dunno: We do have a bit of waterfront, and that's the part of orientation that I lack. Could you push your satellite a tiny bit west? Berkeley is "just opposite the Golden Gate [Bridge]. :)

LOL, stupid me! That picture was Berkley, while you live in Berkeley! :doh:
Here's where WH lives - Berkeley :D Although I'm still not sure where's Berkeley :)
This, my friends, is NA sprawl :D :D :D
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/Berkley_space5.jpg

zooming in..
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/Berkley_space2.jpg

zooming in.....
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/Berkley_space3.jpg

zooming in.........
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/Berkley_space4.jpg


Oh, the horror! :puke:

You keep on surprising us! Have you more detailed ones like this of our capitals too?

Ohh, and I have a new desktop-background now :D

Wow! Jaw-dropping images really. And I can see the residential building where I live in from the Helsinki-pic. :D Sweet!
BTW. Judging by that specific Helsinki photo, these images are at least two or three years old. Zooming in on my neighbourhood gave me that impression although the image got a tad blurry at 8x zoom ;)

You keep on surprising us! Have you more detailed ones like this of our capitals too?


heh, you wish :) Unfortunately I don't.. Although I do have the higher res originals.

This is as far as I can zoom at Helsinki:
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/Helsinki_space_zoom.jpg

This is surprising!!! Thanks, sOmeOne!!!! Very interesting and quite detailed pictures. Was surprised that you can see the bridges over Daugava on Riga picture - these bridges are not that wide after all.
It seems also that North Europe is taken a bit from angle while Californian pics are straight from above.

LA suburbs look... confusing to say the least. If somebody would drop me there with parachute, I would get lost for many weeks for sure. In forest it is easier to orientate...

s0me0ne how about Tampere? Let's see how good your secret sources are :)

Awesome man, thanks for that :eek:

I'm rather surprised at the amount of urban sprawl in Stockholm and Helsinki compared to other capitals in the region.

Anyhow, thanks!

that's a cooool thread, thanks very much, sOmeOne!!! :colgate:

Heeey great images sOmeOne...i will search for that page and see i find it later.....it looks like you can find extremly many cities there....give me Trondheim and Leksvik if you finds it.....hehe

Nah you don't need to, I've already found it, my first search actually......http://www.redt..........right?;)

Damn, its dissapointing, it was clouds all over Leksvik and Trondheim....

http://img62.photobucket.com/albums/v188/cityx/Earth%20Satellite%20Images/Satellite.jpg

so.... SomeOne AMAZE ME - Östersund

Pretty good satellite image of Helsinki metro (doesn't show it entirely, though) I came across:

http://www.macalester.edu/courses/geog61/jgatling/helsinki-JFG/helsin.jpg

Thats good satellite photo Ober :)
You can see that there is not much empty space in Helsinki, so they have to start to build higher buildings soon (maybe i'm just dreaming) :D

Nah you don't need to, I've already found it, my first search actually......http://www.redt..........right?;)

Keep that a secret :D

Trondheim:
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/Trondheim_space.jpg


Leksvik:
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/Leksvikk_space.jpg


Östersund:
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/Ostersund_space.jpg

Wowowowowow!!

What an incredible thread you have here, Someone!!! Many thanks for all the beautiful satellite images, particularly of Stockholm, Berkeley & the SF Bay Area! I went bananas :banana: :banana: :banana2: seeing the zoom job on the city of Berkeley, where I live.


Now, here's a wild but related thought: LIVE SATELLITE IMAGES where you can zoom with perfect clarity and resolution and hover to just a few hundred feet above the ground!! :eek2: In that case, we might very well be able to see Mantaz in an elevator (provided it's of glass!) :laugh: ;) and various people's houses and apartments!!

Wowowowowow!!

What an incredible thread you have here, Obi! Many thanks for all the beautiful satellite images, particularly of Stockholm, Berkeley & the SF Bay Area! I went bananas :banana: :banana: :banana2: seeing the zoom job on the city of Berkeley, where I live.


Now, here's a wild but related thought: LIVE SATELLITE IMAGES where you can zoom with perfect clarity and resolution and hover to just a few hundred feet above the ground!! :eek2: In that case, we might very well be able to see Mantaz in an elevator (provided it's of glass!) :laugh: ;) and various people's houses and apartments!!

Well, I can do a further zoom on Berkeley. We could probably find your house in there if only it wasn't that confusing :D
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/Berkley_space8b.jpg

ok SomeOne i gotta give it to ya i did not think you'd find my lil hick town, i mean most ppl haven't heard of it i guess :P

Guys, don't be so ungenerous, just give us the link :)

Guys, don't be so ungenerous, just give us the link :)
Right! So you can spy on us later? No way! :bash:

sOmeOne should burn in hell :D Ok, it's probably http://www.redtailcanyon.com :)

Close, but not cigar!!!

If you could zoom as you did on page 2 below the pink oval on this image, we'll be talkin' business! :) :D

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v242/cashburton/Berkley_space2.jpg

The same place :D
http://img45.photobucket.com/albums/v137/Mantaz/kilpa.jpg

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v240/Mantazzzz/0012a.jpg

Just found the place where I live now (the complex wth a swimming pool in the center is in red) :D
http://img45.photobucket.com/albums/v137/Mantaz/waterford3.jpg

LOL, Mantaz, you bastard, you gave out the source :D
Hmm, let's see if I can find my house there seing how you can zoom on to US cities fairly close..

PS: You SOB, why do you have a swimming pool while I don't?! I have to go to my friend's complex to swim! It's 40 mins away from me >(

Guys help me:)
i am trying to find small city called Bosanska Krupa in Bosnia but i can't,every time its stucks when i get just liitle bit closer.

LOL, Mantaz, you bastard, you gave out the source :D
Hmm, let's see if I can find my house there seing how you can zoom on to US cities fairly close..

PS: You SOB, why do you have a swimming pool while I don't?! I have to go to my friend's complex to swim! It's 40 mins away from me >(
Well, not only a swimming pool :D also a gym, a spa, solariums and saunas :D :D :D

Guys help me:)
i am trying to find small city called Bosanska Krupa in Bosnia but i can't,every time its stucks when i get just liitle bit closer.
If it's a small town then it not gonna be seen clearly ;)

If it's a small town then it not gonna be seen clearly

15 000:) at least it had it in 1992
Unless Bosnian Muslim whick now control it had crazy natality and changed this number significantly:)

If it's a small town then it not gonna be seen clearly

15 000:) at least it had it in 1992
Unless Bosnian Muslim whick now control it had crazy natality and changed this number significantly:)
Nah, it not gonna be seen, because I tried to find my former hometown of 36,000 and it wasn't seen clearly ;)

But i can't see even bigger ones
I can see only a whole country but when i want more detailed then it just goes blank.

My house:
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/hhome2.jpg


My college campus:
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/oOC.jpg


Military shipyard that I drive by every day when I go to college:
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/sshipyard.jpg

Its okay hopewilly i will get that green card and visit it personlly.Thanks Mantaz anyway:)

Here's my former hometown Utena :)
HERE (http://www.redtailcanyon.com/map.aspx?&BBOX=25.4337892200632,55.331396484375,25.7853517200632,55.682958984375&SRS=EPSG:4326&layer=default&width=800&height=800)

Well, not only a swimming pool :D also a gym, a spa, solariums and saunas :D :D :D

Oh hey, now you're gonna get bombed for that :nono:

Its okay hopewilly i will get that green card and visit it personlly.Thanks Mantaz anyway:)
Try this source: HERE (http://www.redtailcanyon.com/map.aspx?&BBOX=16.9945309740405,43.2000014896902,19.8070308845159,44.6062514449279&SRS=EPSG:4326&layer=Redtail+Canyon+WMS&width=800&height=400)

Maybe the town is marked, check it by yourself ;) If you find, just change the source into "default" :)

@sOmeOne impressive, you live in a suburb too :bleh: ;)

I found the part of the country where my city is(at least it looks like it:))but there is no Bosanska Krupa not even bigger cities all some names i see for the first time.But thanks again:)
I will keep trying

Heh it looks like you gave me a list of mountains Mantaz not of the cities:)

I have managed to decrypt the picture Mantaz posted earlier.
It would appear that he lives in a very big parking lot.
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/Clipboard01.jpg

No reason to be ashamed of your habitat, Mantaz, what you should be ashamed of is the lies you told us about your magnificent apartment complex which doesn't exist :ohno:

I give up:)
Its time for little TV:)
Good night guys

haahaha :)) s0me0ne you're nuts :D.. Here's a satellite picture of Tampere:
http://www.sci.fi/~olvari/satelliitti.jpg

wasn't able to zoom anymore :(.. but here's a closer picture of the area where i live (and the low-rise :( where i live in)
http://www.sci.fi/~olvari/viisto.jpg
(c) City of Tampere/Lentokuva Vallas Oy

I'm rather surprised at the amount of urban sprawl in Stockholm and Helsinki compared to other capitals in the region.


True. And Oslo is also incredible sprawled. Perhaps more so than any other city in Europe (Well, we gotta be "best" in something :D ). To illustrate this, and to show that I am a geek inside, thanks to the link provided here, i've made a map showing the continous urban area of Oslo.

With this original one posted by sOmeOne fresh in mind...
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/Oslo_space.jpg

For me to show the entire urban area, this organic growth that has happened, we need to zoom out alittle. I've tried to illustrate it with this red line. Green box shows the extent of the original image, and blue shows city-borders.
http://img51.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/diverse/oslo_space4.jpg

Why has Oslo become this way? Well, we have to go back in history to find the explanation for that. The reason is a well established local train network already beeing effective early in the last century. This made Oslo very accessible to the surrounding areas already then, so people started moving to the areas near a station. So sprawl is no new phenomenon. My grandmother comes from one of these "station-towns" outside the image I posted above, and when she is talking about the "good old days", she says "going down to the city", referring to Oslo. Furthermore, the local citizens here consider the areas inside the city, but outside the red line, that is the forests, to be holy ground. I think 90% of the "native" population here would have prefered tons of skyscrapers instead of the forests near the city beeing touched. And frankly, so would I :D

While we are at it, let me show you where I live :)

http://img51.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/diverse/flyfoto1.jpg

Closer
http://img51.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/diverse/flyfoto2.jpg

Closer..
http://img51.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/diverse/flyfoto3.jpg

And..the red dot there
http://img51.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/diverse/flyfoto4.jpg

Even closer
http://img51.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/diverse/flyfoto5.jpg

Closest I got
http://img51.photobucket.com/albums/v157/northstar77/diverse/flyfoto7.jpg

Wow, that's close! :eek:

;) It's not satelitephoto, but taken from a small plane. Most large municipalities do this like every second year to see if anyone has built anything illegal. Besides, they look nice :)

This isn't a satellite photo, but shows the place where my apartment locates.
http://img50.photobucket.com/albums/v152/SdeS0/Helsinki/Vuosaari/Kallahti.jpg
copyright Helsinki City Planning Department

http://www.hel.fi/ksv/projektit/vuosaari/pop_ups/images/kokovsik.jpg
copyright Helsinki City Planning Department

@sOmeOne Man, you're hopeless :D I managed to close the view to the maximum and saw that it's not a parking lot, but a huge skyscraper cluster :D
http://img45.photobucket.com/albums/v137/Mantaz/mantaz_place.jpg

:lol: :laugh: :lol: :D
I think that's a little bit too close - you zoomed at your collection of Lego creations :D

could you please post a sat picture of : new york city,panama city(pa) :)

Damn it! how do u find those sattelite pictures. I found that page but cant find where are they?

Does that page have a satellite pic of Turku?
Couldn't get it... requires password :no:

They sOmeOne, if you still have access to that thing, could you get me some pics of my city? It's Blumenau in Central Eastern South America :D

26° 55'S
49° 04W

Are the coordinates :)

Elitism sucks!

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/


:cheers:

Why that photos have to be so grey. :) I changed that.
http://100tka.net/~dziki/baltic/wilno.jpg
http://100tka.net/~dziki/baltic/tallin.jpg
http://100tka.net/~dziki/baltic/kanus.jpg
http://100tka.net/~dziki/baltic/helsinki.jpg

It looks bigger than I expected :)
Considering that the zoom levels are the same, let's compare with Moscow :D
(just for the fun of it)
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v251/b94280904/Sattelite%20Images/Moscow_space2.jpg

:laugh:
Hehe

That's a LOT OF commieblocks