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Google Maps Japan

Postby emperor » Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:03 am

Tokyo Map

Tokyo Satellite

I can see the emperors' house from here!!
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Postby Mulboyne » Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:11 am

Cue enormous amounts of timewasting.
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Postby Charles » Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:27 am

Ooh that's good. But I can't find a damn thing without more detail in the train lines overlaid on it.

edit.. ok, I'm getting it. Yeah, this is really good.

double edit: it takes searches in hiragana or romaji. This is really really good.
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Postby emperor » Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:35 am

I expect this will be really handy for getting and giving directions.

I was able to find my old apt in no time.

& I like how they use the 7.11, Mos Burger, McDonald's... logos/iconography just like on keitai gps.

Shinjuku looks prettier from above:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=tokyo&ll=35.687664,139.696275&spn=0.007114,0.009948&t=k&hl=en
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Postby Captain Japan » Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:41 am

emperor wrote:Shinjuku looks prettier from above:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=tokyo&ll=35.687664,139.696275&spn=0.007114,0.009948&t=k&hl=en


That's an old picture they are using. My office building (37 floors and constructed over two years ago) is shown as a parking lot.
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Postby Mulboyne » Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:43 am

Captain Japan wrote:That's an old picture they are using. My office building (37 floors and constructed over two years ago) is shown as a parking lot.

When were you last in your office?
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Postby emperor » Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:47 am

Captain Japan wrote:That's an old picture they are using. My office building (37 floors and constructed over two years ago) is shown as a parking lot.


The confusion began to show on the terrorists' faces as they made a pass for the 3rd time on the hijacked A340 while glancing at their printed out google-map....
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Re: Google Maps Japan

Postby GuyJean » Fri Jul 15, 2005 12:19 pm

emperor wrote:Tokyo Map

Tokyo Satellite
Cool.. I knew they were going to merge Google Maps with Keyhole..

http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/showthread.php?t=857&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=10

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Postby Captain Japan » Fri Jul 15, 2005 1:21 pm

Mulboyne wrote:
Captain Japan wrote:That's an old picture they are using. My office building (37 floors and constructed over two years ago) is shown as a parking lot.

When were you last in your office?


Questions of this sort are all referred to my lawyer.
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Postby Kuang_Grade » Fri Jul 15, 2005 3:55 pm

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Postby Tsuru » Fri Jul 15, 2005 8:03 pm

The map function is excellent.... now: if they made it so that subway stations would be displayed it would make me orgasm up here. :D
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Postby emperor » Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:25 pm

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Postby NeoNecroNomiCron » Fri Jul 15, 2005 10:35 pm

THe spin 2 images and other sat data they have is all about 5 years old.
But as my house is over 50 year old its easily spotted.

Also I can make out where CS's house is.

Why does Google earth become so popular when these images were available years ago using terraserve?

You know you can actually get live images from satellites using nothing more than a aerial made from wire hangers a radio and a fax machine.
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Postby anti-pop » Sat Jul 16, 2005 12:10 am

Tsuru wrote:The map function is excellent.... now: if they made it so that subway stations would be displayed it would make me orgasm up here. :D

The subway stations would definitely turn this into a wet dream :D



emperor wrote:& I like how they use the 7.11, Mos Burger, McDonald's... logos/iconography just like on keitai gps.


Is there a page where the meaning of these logos is explained ? I recognize some of them (Sunkus, Mos, McDonald's etc.), but there are others I don't know.

(or should i post screenshots of all the logos i don't recognize ? :wink: )
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Postby Charles » Sun Jul 17, 2005 7:10 am

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Postby kamome » Mon Jul 18, 2005 6:58 pm

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Postby Charles » Mon Jul 18, 2005 7:06 pm

I just stumbled upon the Google Blog announcement of Google Maps for Japan, as well as a Tokyo local Google site. So what's their big example?

1000Y teishoku near Shinjuku. With maps.
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Postby NeoNecroNomiCron » Mon Jul 18, 2005 10:26 pm

Post pics of your house if you are good enough to find it.

My House

CS should be able to find his because I know where it should be around by the bridges need to cross the river.

Google earth has better resolution but its maps are older.

Funny things you can spot are some buildings are slopeing in different directions in shinjuku skyscraper district because the satellite makes more than one pass and captures at different sides of the lens.
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here i am

Postby james » Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:43 pm

My Village

nothing available yet a higher zoom level unfortunately. hope they do the boonies soon! zoom out and look at all that green :P
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Postby AssKissinger » Mon Jul 18, 2005 11:46 pm

Necro, you live in a very ugly neighborhood.

It seems there's not a single plant in that entire picture. Nasty.
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Postby NeoNecroNomiCron » Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:34 am

AssKissinger wrote:Necro, you live in a very ugly neighborhood.

It seems there's not a single plant in that entire picture. Nasty.


Its actualy the slums of tokyo, no joking either. I am even afriad to take pictures around here incase I get some crazy old oyaji complaining about gaijin. All the buildings are over 50 years old. If there was ever a quake in tokyo nothing would last here. But if you use google earth software it looks a little greener.
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Postby emperor » Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:37 am

My Old Apartment Right next to a creepy old graveyard!! :eek2:
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Re: here i am

Postby NeoNecroNomiCron » Tue Jul 19, 2005 12:42 am

james wrote:My Village

nothing available yet a higher zoom level unfortunately. hope they do the boonies soon! zoom out and look at all that green :P


Fuck you have some cool mountains around you I would love to be there in winter.
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Re: here i am

Postby emperor » Tue Jul 19, 2005 1:03 am

NeoNecroNomiCron wrote:
james wrote:My Village
nothing available yet a higher zoom level unfortunately. hope they do the boonies soon! zoom out and look at all that green :P

Fuck you, some cool mountains around you, I would love to skullfuck your extended family in winter.


I heard Matsue is lovely. Theres an essay competition that the embassy runs for a cultural trip that includes visiting there (all expenses paid), but you cant have been to Japan before in order to apply.
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matsue & mountains

Postby james » Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:00 am

the view of the mountains is specatcular where we are, especially in the fall when you've got a mix of green, red and snowcaps. there are a couple of ski hills nearby though they're nothing exceptional.

matuse is a really nice city though somewhat disorganized in some places. the old quarter is really worth checking out and you can get a small boat tour through part of the city on the river. it's about an hour from where i am. they have some really nice fireworks in the summer and the view on lake shinji is great.
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Let's Google Moon map!

Postby Taro Toporific » Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:58 pm

Another "Moon Day" on the Web [and Google's Google Moon map!]
Today @ PC World. Wednesday, July 20, 2005, 02:26 PM (PST)
Today marks the 36th anniversary of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the lunar surface for the first time.
Coincidentally, early tomorrow morning will mark the full moon. And this Moon Day we also have some sad news to report: James Doohan, who played the highly-flappable Chief Engineer Scotty of the starship Enterprise,passed away today at age 85.:cry: Here are several techie ways you can celebrate "moon day" at your PC. <snip>
....check outGoogle's Google Moon map, which shows the landing spots of the six Apollo missions that made it to the lunar surface and back to Earth, using imagery data provided by NASA. Unfortunately, the NASA images don't provide enough detail to zoom in fully, so Google has had to improvise with the close-up details.
In its typical silliness, Google claims it plans to integrate Lunar Local Search capability into the engine, so you'll be able to find the locations and hours of lunar-based businessesl .

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Postby Tiger Stripe » Thu Jul 21, 2005 3:08 pm

Go here for the GoogleEarth program http://earth.google.com/. download the free version, its a very neato program that allows you to get very detailed(albeit somewhat dated) satellite photos of the entire planet. Sadly I think it only works in english prompts, but you can overlay road, buildings and railways over the map like photochop layers. Just type in any address and see what you get!

If this is a re-post of already posted info, my apologies.
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Postby NeoNecroNomiCron » Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:12 pm

Trayu wrote:Go here for the GoogleEarth program http://earth.google.com/. download the free version, its a very neato program that allows you to get very detailed(albeit somewhat dated) satellite photos of the entire planet. Sadly I think it only works in english prompts, but you can overlay road, buildings and railways over the map like photochop layers. Just type in any address and see what you get!

If this is a re-post of already posted info, my apologies.


The search is very limited. But you can zoom in enough where a newspaper is about 3 pixels. Even I can make out the aircon in my old house.

Google moon is funny, if you zoom too much it turns to cheese.
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Postby Greji » Thu Jul 21, 2005 7:25 pm

I just tried out the mapping and when I zoomed the damn thing all the way in, its got my bloody name (in katakana) on my house! I wonder if I can sue for invasion of privacy?
(not that FG's are entitled to privacy in J-land)

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Postby Tiger Stripe » Fri Jul 22, 2005 3:07 am

It would be an invasion of privacy if it could zoom through your roof and spy on you dropping a duece in the can or shagging the wife.

There are also national landmarks pre-bookmarked on the program, I just got finished traversing the entire length of the Great Wall of China. I'm gonna go to Easter island next to see if i can see the big statuary there, then I'm going to south america to see if I can find some Mayan or Aztec temples.
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