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Google Earth image shows a pilot’s eye view of the Cameron Park Airport (someone else’s kmz file).
Well, that’s more or less a pilot’s eye view. Your real pilot sort of fellow, who hangs out at the coffee shop (kmz file), would probably tell you that with this sort of setup I’d likely fly off the end of the runway or something.
They’d probably have a better word for setup to like “approach” or some sort of pilotese.
I’m just starting to mess around with Google Earth.
What sort of map blogger would I be if I didn’t mess around with Google Earth?
If you need to find the middle of the airport, it’s more or less at 38.683902 -120.987506. That of course, newly minted map geeks like me, is latitude and longitude, respectively.
By the way, if you copy and paste 38.683902 -120.987506 into Google’s search box, it thinks you want to use the calculator, but clicking on the maps link straigtens it out quite nicely, and you end up in the right place. Yahoo pretty much gets puzzled, but clicking on Yahoo maps and then running it works fine.
Good old Microsoft, God bless them. When you try this query in Live Search, you end up in North Dakota.
I don’t need to speak pilot to understand that condition: lost.
Windows is no way to run a planet.
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