Just pulling your leg C. Shell 🙂 Welcome to the wonderful world of Google Earth, I love it and use it a lot especially when traveling. It is a nice resource to get your barrings as far as where the airport is and how far it is to your hotel, beach etc..

Google Earth has a lot of cool formats from street names to school finders etc, if you are looking at real estate. Between GPS and Google Earth, I am not sure what we used to do??

okay, okay ... so I'm a bit behind the times ... I just thought it was neat and never spent time playing with it before ! Since I've used mapquest twice and both times it was wrong, I haven't much faith in "technology." Still waiting for my g'baby to come out the front door and wave to me! LOL

I've tried to find St. John on Google Earth and can't get a good image? Are you on the service where you pay for the site or the free download?

Thanks,

Don

I can get on part of Calabash Boom...where we're staying, but part of it is a blur. Cruz Bay and Coral Bay are pretty visible. Does anyone know how old these satellite pix are? I'm guessing a few weeks or maybe even months?

I was on the freebie and got pretty good images until I zoomed in close when it got fuzzy. I did like clicking on the dots to see the pix - only problem is that whomever "identified" places, really wasn't very good. For example, the dock in Cruz Bay was labeled "Charlotte Amalie Port, St. John" and on Virgin Gorda they had one beach - think it was Savannah labeled "Sapphire" while another was labeled "Tortola, Virgin Gorda." Another spot was the "Hilltop Guest House" spotted on STJ altho it really is on STX and the beach labels are screwed up! But there are some pretty nice pictures if you ignore the labels!! Seems that someone, or lots of someones, didn't pay attention during geography class! Haven't gotten far but seems you can upload your pix and attach to the "earth" - not sure if that makes the "spots" when you do that or what ... more playing later ... much later!
The copyright is 2007 and when I look at my neighborhood some of the changes, new construction, etc don't show up but can't tell how old they are.

Theres a new house (2 years old across the street from me) and it doesnt show up on google earth or yahoo streets.

The pictures have been updated since 2004 that I know. They are taken from a plane not satellite. The original picture of STT used to have a huge cloud and you couldn't see anything. Now it is pretty clear. STJ is only clear near Cruz Bay. So far google takes high resolution pics of populated areas only. As they expand maybe we will get a good pic of the rest of STJ.

Teresa

If you all like Google Earth, you should try Microsoft Virtual Earth. It has regular maps and can switch to actual pictures, better zoom and then in some of the populated areas you can get a 3d image. I can see my house from each direction as if I were facing it rather than just on top of it. They say they have 'live' images, but they are the same pics I saw last year. MVE is free as well.

Teresa

Actually, GoogleEarth photos are taken from both satellite and mapping planes. See quote below from the site.

"Are these images really from satellites?
Yes and no. Although the majority of the images are from satellite a lot of the really detailed imagery (for example, particularly above the major metropolitan areas) are actually aerial photographs taken from planes."

We have had Google Earth on our computer at home for quite some time. We have all of our favorite vacation spots marked, so we can "visit" them from time to time. 😉

Part of the East End STT is in shadow, so it's very difficult to see Point Pleasant. 🙁