[DVBC] Aston Hills

[Dave Hartrum]

I've taking pictures on very steep ski slopes that are hard to even just stand on and when you get home and look at the pictures
there hardly appears to be much of a slope. Must be that 3D world on a 2D image thing.
Just don't do the real life appearance justice.

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Dave Hartrum
dhartrum at mac.com

 
On Tuesday, October 16, 2007, at 12:57AM, "Peter Schmidt" <pschmid1 at swarthmore.edu> wrote:
>Dear all:  I agree, these Google-otos of the Aston Hills are pretty cool. 
>I've ridden these hills so I can also say the Google images leave one
>thing out:  like TV cameras following the Tour, they somehow flatten the
>climb a little, don't you think, making it seem more like just 4-5% than
>the 10+% or whatever that it is?  And the streets are so empty--no
>DVBC-'ers struggling up 'em....  Maybe Bob LaDrew went out by his lonesome
>early one day and shot this with his bike-cam then sold it to Google!
>
>Google spy-cam:  coming not just to a neighborhood near you, but to YOUR
>street soon, and then YOUR yard & house maybe too, gulp.  Like with
>everything, it's both good and bad I guess.  And we can't anticipate the
>consequences very well.  Remember that when Bell invented the phone he
>thought one of the main uses for it would be for families to set up the
>receiver in the living room (excuse me, the parlor) and listen to
>symphonic orchestra music.  Remember too that those bright guys who
>invented email thought its main use would be to share and correct
>programming code.  Who knows what's coming.
>
>Happy riding everyone.
>
>--Peter
>
>
>
>
>On Mon, October 15, 2007 22:09, Jake L. wrote:
>> Deb, Dan and everyone else should see this... pretty neat.
>>
>> Hill
>> 1<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=gordonville+rd,+aston,+pa&sll=39.893604,-75.432687&sspn=0.02374,0.05652&layer=c&ie=UTF8&ll=39.890427,-75.440841&spn=0.01187,0.035577&z=16&om=1&cbll=39.88789,-75.439&cbp=1,363.38,0.5,0>
>> Hill
>> 2<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=gordonville+rd,+aston,+pa&sll=39.893604,-75.432687&sspn=0.02374,0.05652&layer=c&ie=UTF8&om=1&cbll=39.88541,-75.4441&cbp=1,216.46664478099623,0.5,0,3.6917885280185465&ll=39.888945,-75.440755&spn=0.010998,0.028667&z=16>
>> Hill
>> 2b<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=gordonville+rd,+aston,+pa&sll=39.893604,-75.432687&sspn=0.02374,0.05652&layer=c&ie=UTF8&om=1&cbll=39.882086,-75.442274&cbp=1,507.73664478099624,0.5,0&ll=39.886278,-75.439939&spn=0.010999,0.028667&z=16>
>> Water
>> Ice<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=226+Pennell+Rd,+Aston,+PA&sll=39.87424,-75.44821&sspn=0.176008,0.458679&layer=c&ie=UTF8&ll=39.867719,-75.427923&spn=0.011002,0.028667&z=16&iwloc=addr&om=1&cbll=39.864738,-75.427901&cbp=1,396.125693849641,0.5,0>
>>
>> Use arrows in the picture to move up/down the streets or just drag your
>> mouse around to rotate the view 360 degrees. Use +/- to zoom in.
>>
>> btw this works on almost all streets in Aston and towns South/West, plus
>> all
>> of Philadelphia. Oddly enough Drexel Hill, Media, Springfield and other
>> towns between Aston and Philly have not been digitized as of yet.
>>
>> enjoy!
>>
>> Jake
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>
>-- 
>Best wishes,
>
>Peter Schmidt
>
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