I'm On Google Earth

rusty6 · Feb 4, 2017

I see google earth has up-dated the image for my area and improved the resolution a little. I was able to see myself working summerfallow with the 7130 magnum and 37 foot Morris field cultivator on August 21 of 2012. Spotted a few neighbours harvesting further south.

Dalex · Feb 4, 2017

What are the three "islands" ? Giant Rocks ?

oj · Feb 4, 2017

Google thinks you're a little over 2 and a half hours away from me... And 200 ft higher in elevation... It is nice when they upgrade the satellite images, we got ours redone last year I think.

rusty6 · Feb 4, 2017

(quoted from post at 19:52:25 02/04/17) What are the three "islands" ? Giant Rocks ?

Those are sloughs that contain water and are unworkable except in dry years. Originally surrounded by poplar bush and that was cleared and burned leaving just the slough. It is typical of this topography. That is probably one of the better drained and open fields on the whole farm.

rusty6 · Feb 4, 2017

(quoted from post at 19:59:12 02/04/17) Google thinks you're a little over 2 and a half hours away from me... And 200 ft higher in elevation... It is nice when they upgrade the satellite images, we got ours redone last year I think.

I met the google camera car on the highway last summer so wonder if I'll be on the street view as they cruised highway 35?

shaun wallace · Feb 4, 2017

I went and checked out my place. It looked like taken may/june of 16 for where stuff was setting at.

Heyseed · Feb 4, 2017

That is pretty cool. I was able to see my truck at a job years ago, that image is long gone.

4play · Feb 5, 2017

There's a tab you can click to go back and look at previous images. In my area there about about 10 images through the years back to 1995.

UncleTom · Feb 5, 2017

Street view is awsome.

Dick L · Feb 5, 2017

I like the option to get the street view of houses. I set here in my chair with my laptop about a month ago in google earth and was able to follow the road from a town to where I wanted to pick up a disc. I looked at the houses and trees and when I was actually driving the road every thing looked familiar. I was even able to spot a Bob Evens on the route at the edge of town and see the sicky parking places. Very helpful!

waynesteuck · Feb 5, 2017

Rusty6 , I was working on my motorhome a few years back on the street, heard a car coming , turned around and here was THE GOOGLE CAR !!
So I ,m on the world wide web !!
Ps i even went down the street a bit ,4 house s down and myGrand daughter is on it to !
Thanks Wayne

Brown Swiss · Feb 5, 2017

Good thing you were not taking a leak!

Cory Schmidt · Feb 5, 2017

I was a couple years ago...was looking over field we were renting, There I was on the W4 side raking. How did I know it was me, could see where I turned out a little to avoid a round bale that was just in the way of the end of the rake.

RayP(MI) · Feb 5, 2017

A few years back, I had just finished drilling, seeding and fertilizing an oat/alfalfa field with a old drill that no longer worked for fertilizer. So I hooked up garden tractor and a large yard/garden broadcast spreader, an broadcast the field with fertilizer. Was a small field, - 4 acres, so it was doable. Anyway, the satellite photos were taken shortly afterward, and it was very visible where ever I had driven the tractor. Had a very good looking job via satellite view. Nice corners, nice straight lines.

Goose · Feb 5, 2017

Google Earth has an excellent photo of one of my wife's girlfriends watering the flowers in her front yard. You can easily recognize her.

rrlund · Feb 5, 2017

Me too. That's me chopping corn,filling silo. In one of the old versions,all of my hay fields are doted with round bales. I had them all rolled up but hadn't moved them off yet.

tim s · Feb 5, 2017

When I go to pick up a tractor i google earth the drive ways to make sure I can get the semi in and out, saves getting in a jam.

rrlund · Feb 5, 2017

Take a look at this one. That's my place,but look at the red pickup and trailer. They must have taken two pictures a few seconds apart and got it on there twice. Just to the right,on screen,there's a dark colored car that's on there twice,about the same distance apart as the pickup(s) are/is.

ss55 · Feb 5, 2017

Zoomed all the way in, the resolution is good enough to count the one foot square roof vents on my house.

Straw Boss · Feb 5, 2017

On my farm my combine is in the yard backed up to the diesel tank for refueling and in my field two miles away, my combine is sitting in the corner of the field I had just finished. What??? Didn't know I had two combines!

rusty6 · Feb 5, 2017

(quoted from post at 09:47:51 02/05/17) On my farm my combine is in the yard backed up to the diesel tank for refueling and in my field two miles away, my combine is sitting in the corner of the field I had just finished. What??? Didn't know I had two combines!

The U.S. seems to have higher resolution and detail than we have here in Canada. Guess google thinks there is not much to see here so why go into great detail?

olgentdc · Feb 5, 2017

I think it isneat toseethe turn round pattern of wheel trax from combining wheat from the air ,,. and hay windrows,. btw ,,. I am in a fly over pix of the farm my mom bought,./ I am on the 800 case lining up to the augar to make a load of feed

ss55 · Feb 5, 2017

The red truck was probably moving in the same direction as the camera. Can you spot were they stiched the individual photos together? I can't.

55 50 Ron · Feb 5, 2017

Some precision there!! The bottom of your picture has the latitude and longitude numbers listed. I typed those in precisely on Google Maps to the numbers given and it placed the marker about 100 feet west of your tractor and cultivator. Just amazing accuracy!

About 15 miles south of Leross and 20 miles north of Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan. We traveled south through that general area in 1999 after visiting relatives in Prince Albert area. We arrived in the Prince Albert area from the west after a northerly run through Alberta and the mountains. Beautiful country.

MARK ROBKE · Feb 5, 2017

Like some of the others here,on an older version of my place I was rolling hay,but the resolution was poor.The later views were in fall/early winter time,but you make out where my electric fence was.I should look again some time.Mark

rusty6 · Feb 5, 2017

(quoted from post at 13:01:25 02/05/17) Some precision there!!

About 15 miles south of Leross and 20 miles north of Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan. We traveled south through that general area in 1999 .

Pretty much right on. You probably drove right past the farm although you would not see me from the highway through the trees.

K Effective · Feb 5, 2017

On earlier versions, we were working the field in front of the house by the road. After making one pass with the field cultivator, we stopped for the evening to repair a flat tire, so the Steiger and cultivator were parked in the corner of the field. Google must have called it a night, too, as the pictures showed both a virgin field and the one-pass version depending on how you viewed the farm: from the North virgin field, from the South, one-pass.

Another version, I was clearly visible standing next to the golf cart behind the barn, against the feedlot fence. Since no cows were present, the only plausible reason for that position was to relieve myself, but nothing was visible (would require use of the Hubble telescope).

In one of the aerial photos of the farm I bought for my Dad, the 65 F-100 is racing out the driveway, as the JD 1010 sits in the field, last round of hay raked up and ready. Most likely, Grandpa running over to the neighbor Erv's place to help him get the baler hooked up, to knock out the hay. The fellow from the photo company explained that the ones with people in them are always easier to sell.

Eldon (WA) · Feb 5, 2017

I brush hog fields and have been using google earth to quote new jobs (as far as 50 mils away) while I am on the phone with the customer. Saves me the time and expense of going to look, and using the "measure" feature I can get a close calculation of the acreage if the customer is not sure.

Leroy · Feb 6, 2017

How can Google get away with that invasion of privacy? That should be against the law to take pictures like that. It is as bad as a person using a drone to see what you have stored outside or how to get into your buildings without being seen to steel your items. To me it is a burgerler tool

JML755 · Feb 6, 2017

I've seen the google car a number of times on my street. Usually something going on, me loading my p/u with stuff. Here's the last one. Caught me in my p/u:

docmirror · Feb 6, 2017

(quoted from post at 05:26:49 02/05/17) I like the option to get the street view of houses. I set here in my chair with my laptop about a month ago in google earth and was able to follow the road from a town to where I wanted to pick up a disc.

You won't see any of my homes.

http://www.offthegridnews.com/privacy/how-to-hide-your-house-from-google-maps/

Dr. Walt · Feb 6, 2017

Straw Boss:

SHHHH !

As long as you got one for FREE . . . don't look a GIFT horse in the mouth.

LOL !

:>)

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