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Aerial Sightseeing Around Texas: Dealey Plaza
Here’s the most infamous place in all of Texas, Dealey Plaza, where John F Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. You can see it all in this aerial photo: Elm Street, the Texas Book Repository, and, of...
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Aerial Sightseeing Around Texas: State Capitol
Here is the Texas State Capitol building, located on Congress St between 11th and 14th streets in Austin. I had intended to accompany this photo with an aerial photo of the Alamo. Unfortunately, the...
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Aerial Sightseeing Around Texas: the Fred Hartman Bridge
This is the Fred Hartman bridge and its shadow. The Hartman is a relatively new and beautiful bridge that carries Texas Highway 146 across the Houston ship channel, joining Baytown and La Port.
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Aerial Sightseeing Around Texas: Johnson Space Center
Here’s a nice view of the heart of JSC. Over at Flickr, I have an annotated version showing the various places I’ve worked (and eaten) within JSC.
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Aerial Sightseeing Around Texas: Amusement Parks
The Astroworld amusement and water park, just south of the Astrodome in Houston. Moody Gardens and its pyramids, down the road in Galveston.
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Aerial Sightseeing: The Oklahoma City National Memorial
This is one of those places that you can see much better with the Microsoft Terra Server than with Google Maps: Click to enlarge. The place in question is the Oklahoma City National Memorial, built to...
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Aerial Sightseeing Around Texas: Cadillac Ranch
The guys over at Google Sightseeing did a good job of finding these Caddies buried in a field just west of Amarillo. I looked for Cadillac Ranch myself, and I found the area, but I never found those...
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Many years ago, I flew over the Mississippi River delta in a helicopter. The view was amazing, the river branching over and over again. Its structure looked just like a computer generated fractal. It...
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Houston Hybrid
The whole Internet seemed to be abuzz today with news of the latest Google Maps innovation: a hybrid map that combines map graphics with satellite photos (the detailed photos of urban areas are not...
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Making Music Videos With Google Earth
As many of you know, I’ve made a hobby in the past couple of years of making music videos. Well here’s a new twist on that idea: use Google Earth to generate some video, set it to music, and you have a...
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