Fun with Google Maps

(sloshake) · (sloshake) **Join Date: Mar 2003** 06-10-2005, 7:30 AM

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=47.294576,-122.610995&spn=0,0&t=k&hl=en

Anybody played around with google maps and the satellite view? Looks like someone found a wakeboarder!

Here's a whole sight full of fun things people found. http://www.googlesightseeing.com/

river_rider_19 06-10-2005, 7:38 AM

i dont get whats so great about it

(flux) · (flux) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 06-10-2005, 8:25 AM

Max,

When you are 18, please move out of your parents basement, it will do you good.

river_rider_19 06-10-2005, 8:32 AM

we dont even have a basement and why would you say that just because i dont like wasting my time on computers playing with maps ••••••

(jarrod) · (jarrod) **Join Date: May 2003** 06-10-2005, 8:46 AM

You don't find it interesting that this image was captured from a satellite?

(flux) · (flux) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 06-10-2005, 9:05 AM

Ever been in a plane and looked out the window??

What is so great about it??

So you go on the internet (something I did not have when I was 14, but we did have a basement) and go to a free map site and can cruise around the entire USA and then hit a link and the whole thing turns into high res sattelite images that you can zoom into.

In one of those images a wakeboarder or waterskier is frozen in time after slashing the wake and Gerald found it. I think it's cool, we are immortalized forever on Google Maps. Google actually has some pretty recent photos, and someone sat there and laced them all together.

Maybe if you spent more time using your imagination instead of posting negative remarks you might actually learn something.

I am gonna bet alot of folks on here enjoy looking at their home lakes in Sat view.

Check out Naci, really does look like a dragon.

(flux) · (flux) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 06-10-2005, 9:10 AM

PS-> the rider is in Wollochot Bay in Tachoma, riding up the narrows and getting some butter, NICE.

(sloshake) · (sloshake) **Join Date: Mar 2003** 06-10-2005, 10:19 AM

wow, totally not where I thought this thread was going to go...

Gotta give some credit to my friend who found the Google Sightseeing site that had it listed. It looked like there was some discussion if it was a skiier, boarder, or even pwc. You'd be able to see the pwc and the skiier wouldnt make such a splash outside the wake.

Where is Naci? Can you put up that link?

Maybe being from Ohio Max you'd prefer something local, like the Goodyear blimp's old hangar in Akron.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=akron&ll=41.031972,-81.470554&spn=0.006384,0.006008&t=k&hl=en

(flux) · (flux) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 06-10-2005, 10:35 AM

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.787598,-120.965510&spn=0.409927,0.562363&t=k&hl=en

They call the lake "The Dragon". One of my favortie riding spots when I can get there.

gambo2166 06-10-2005, 10:58 AM

Naci rules!

river_rider_19 06-10-2005, 11:19 AM

flux what the ••••••• I gonna learn from looking at a photo of someone wakeboarding and you say I need to learn something when you can't even spell a lot and your 35

river_rider_19 06-10-2005, 11:31 AM

whenever i zoom in it says image can't be seen from here

(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 06-10-2005, 11:34 AM

and what the hell do you think you're contributing by talkin smack? simply shut the hell up and click back if you don't think it's so great.

(ttrigo) · (ttrigo) **Join Date: Dec 2004** 06-10-2005, 12:00 PM

that shot of Naci is so cool. here is my work.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=633+east+cabrillo+blvd.+santa+barbara,+ca&t =k&hl=en

(sloshake) · (sloshake) **Join Date: Mar 2003** 06-10-2005, 12:07 PM

Naci is nice looking. Is that whole tail smooth water? That's ridiculous.

(flux) · (flux) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 06-10-2005, 12:13 PM

Max, some of the images are lower resolution, so you can't zoom in too far.

Seriously though, use it to go to your river, maybe you can see where you rode and maybe find a new spot that is glass all day. That pic with the rider is taken in Tacoma, I have a friend in Tacoma, he wakeboards, maybe I'll go visit and we'll crash that exact cove and I'll throw my first inverted trick there because I am so stoked that I saw the place on Google maps.

I'ts not about the pic, it's about the tool. Many of us here (most??) have to trailer up and head to the riding spots. Maps get us from A to B. Maybe there is a better way to go when you are hauling 4000 lbs behind your truck. Maybe when you get there you can find a new cove on some big lake that you did not know was there, maybe a new camp spot or boat launch. Maybe a new lake that is uncrowded and is glassy all day long.

Wakeboarding is my fun, and I'll do anything I can to make my time on the rope better. The internet is gold for that. I now can figure out what boards are good, make campground reservations, look at satellite images of the lake, check the weather, and heck, I even bought my boat off the internet.

Sorry to take a cheapshot, but the old golden rule about saying something nice really does apply here. The whole purpose of these places is to learn stuff and increase your fun. Hit the back button if the post is not what you want to be reading.

Personally, I think the rider is on a board, and just slashed the wake and is setting up for a monster heelside raley.

(craiger) · (craiger) **Join Date: May 2002** 06-10-2005, 12:32 PM

Flux - don't spend too much time justifying yourself to a 14 year old, total waste of time IMO.

Joe - not contributing too much yourself there either. If you learned to control yourself while at the keyboard you would have much more respect (than you already do) in my book.

Google maps are cool, and for the sake of keeping this thread on track, here is the lake I ride on. Our run is along the southern most part of the lake. That nice, long, straight line protected by all the south winds we get in Texas..
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.281265,-96.124878&spn=0.316544,0.409241&t=k&hl=en

(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 06-10-2005, 12:45 PM

rammer, i forgot to add in my post...

"that's cool that of all things, the satelite took a pic of butter w/ a rider on it!"

here's where i try to ride at least once or twice a month. (until we move there permanently...end of this year, i hope)

(flux) · (flux) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 06-10-2005, 12:50 PM

Just trying to educate!!

Here's the puddle where I ride 50% of the time. Good for riding though!! Islands throughout help kill the rollers.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.221653,-119.258308&spn=0.097332,0.140591&t=k&hl=en

(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 06-10-2005, 12:58 PM

i found a private lake on that map, flux!

(flux) · (flux) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 06-10-2005, 1:07 PM

That could easily be a liquid cowcrap pool. There are a bunch of factory dairy farms out there, they liquify the crap into a big pool, mix it with water, and flood the surrounding fields. Needless to say it if the wind blows the wrong direction, it's a little tough out there.

The big lake is only like three miles long tops. probably a little hard to drive the D-up on that private lake. Thanks for looking out for me though.

(thor) · (thor) **Join Date: Oct 2001** 06-10-2005, 1:10 PM

Joe,

I think the top slough is Victoria and the bottom one is the slough by Tracy Oasis. That's a cool picture though. If you zoom in tomorrow around 10 am, then keep an eye out for me.

Rob

(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 06-10-2005, 1:11 PM

have you zoomed in on it? it's definitely a private lake. and private lakes are easy to drive d-ups in. just follow the island around.

(flux) · (flux) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 06-10-2005, 1:13 PM

HFS Umali!! I just went and zoomed in on that!! It's got turns on the ends and docks!! WOW!!

I might have to take a little afternoon drive over there next weekend.

You rule Umali!!

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.221653%2C-119.258308&spn=0.097332%2C0.140591&t=k&hl=en

(flux) · (flux) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 06-10-2005, 1:18 PM

Oops, wrong link:
Definately a Ski/Wakeboard Lake. That is so cool, never would have known...........

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.153954,-119.230907&spn=0.012810,0.017574&t=k&hl=en

(flux) · (flux) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 06-10-2005, 1:20 PM

Oops, wrong link:
Definately a Ski/Wakeboard Lake. That is so cool, never would have known...........

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.153954,-119.230907&spn=0.012810,0.017574&t=k&hl=en

river_rider_19 06-10-2005, 1:37 PM

joe,

all i said is that i dont find whats so great and when I zoom in the images don't turn up and he said a smart ass comment about not living in my parents basement when im 18 thinking hes a badass talking smack to a 14 year old and you say that i should shut the hell up and come to his defense

river_rider_19 06-10-2005, 1:39 PM

i suck at using these maps and if someone could find me the Ohio river that would be sweet

(flux) · (flux) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 06-10-2005, 1:58 PM

Max,

got to http://maps.google.com

you will see the whole usa in graphic form. double click on your area and the map will recenter, then incrementally zoom and double click until you are in close to where you want to be. You can also pan by clicking and dragging the map around. When you are close to your spot, hit the satellite image link in the upper right and it will turn into photos. If you get that error message about not available, zoom out a bit and it will come up.

you can also toggle between map and sat to see town names and road names. When you find your spot hit the link to this page thing and it will give you the link in the http:// at the top of the browser, select and copy paste it into your post and we can see your riding spot.

Umali knows the trick for posting the image, maybe a screen shot.

Here's downtown Cinci and the river:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=39.086914,-84.510427&spn=0.097332,0.140591&t=k&hl=en

(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 06-10-2005, 2:07 PM

flux, hook me up when you hook up the private lake!

(fly135) · (fly135) **Join Date: Jun 2004** 06-10-2005, 2:11 PM

Here's OWC. Doesn't look very recent though. You can barely see the tracks of a wakeboarder on both cables.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.444336,-81.371836&spn=0.008347,0.008444&t=k&hl=en

river_rider_19 06-10-2005, 2:13 PM

thanks

(flux) · (flux) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 06-10-2005, 2:23 PM

For sure Joe!! I wanna buy the whole lake with my lottery winnings!! We are definately gonna take a cruise over there and see what there is to see, maybe a for sale sign??

No sweat Max. Hope your summer is spent on the river doin what we all love to do. Sorry for the cheapshot, sometimes I just can't resist.

(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 06-10-2005, 2:26 PM

max, me too!

i think we all just need to ride!

(blitzpb) · (blitzpb) **Join Date: Aug 2004** 06-10-2005, 2:41 PM

I think the images may be a little old. I dont know how old though. I checked my neighborhood (where there is a lot of construction. The picures seem to be at least a few months out of date. So, I wouldnt rely on the images to show you a good cove, the water level is probably different by now. Anyone know where to find the image dates?

(erik_c) · (erik_c) **Join Date: Jan 2005** 06-10-2005, 3:17 PM

Check this one out private lake in brentwood.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=knightsen+ca&ll=37.943687,-121.649809&spn=0.010493,0.015407&t=k&hl=en

(erik_c) · (erik_c) **Join Date: Jan 2005** 06-10-2005, 3:19 PM

(flux) · (flux) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 06-10-2005, 3:37 PM

I wanna live here:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=knightsen%2Bca&ll=35.175583,-118.931572&spn=0.012810,0.017574&t=k&hl=en

Living in socal and being a wakeboarder is hard on the brain.

(peterslc) · (peterslc) **Join Date: Sep 2002** 06-10-2005, 4:14 PM

FLUX, YOU SUCK!!

(flux) · (flux) **Join Date: Jun 2003** 06-10-2005, 4:23 PM

Hey LP, why is my boat in your profile pic??

Also, your dog likes me better than you anyway.

(Message edited by flux on June 10, 2005)

(ldr) · (ldr) **Join Date: Nov 2002** 06-10-2005, 5:21 PM

If you look at downtown stockton it doesn't have any of the new developements. and here in fresno it has the save martt center partly under construction. i would say that depending on the area the pictures are probably between 1 to 4 years old.

Joe i do the same thing you do. I have gotten on numerous times and just had fun searching for waterski lakes. I have found a few. It's interesting because you would never know they were there without a birds eye veiw. Some of them are only for the owners use so nobody has even heard of them. I just think it's interesting.

keep the posts comming

(dakid) · (dakid) **Join Date: Feb 2001** 06-10-2005, 7:27 PM

yeah, most of them are for owners' use only, but a handful of them can be rented for $500(+/-) per weekend. imagine getting 10-20 people w/ a few boats for a weekend...$500(+/-) doesn't sound so bad anymore, does it?

sbvfive 06-10-2005, 8:22 PM

This is sick....if any of you are surfers, check out your home breaks, you can see sandbars and stuff!

(aidan) · (aidan) **Join Date: Feb 2004** 06-10-2005, 9:16 PM

Where the hell is Pearsonville...........in Mexico???

tpalmeri 06-11-2005, 11:15 AM

Here is one for you.... It is not a lake, but it is Neverland Ranch.

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.745507,-120.088120&spn=0.007242,0.010664&t=k

tpalmeri 06-11-2005, 11:20 AM

I did a google search for other photos to compare, and there is not much. but there are a couple. There is also a short little description from a guy that said he and his wife have been to the entrance, and he also goes on to say where MJ's house may be on the property

(domin8) · (domin8) **Join Date: Mar 2004** 06-11-2005, 9:29 PM

anymore info on how to find the dates ?