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Old 07-08-2006, 12:32 PM
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I found my work on here, Pine Bend Refinery......

Pretty nifty looking....here'* a pic of where I work if you wanna see it:

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Old 07-08-2006, 12:41 PM
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google earth is pretty cool but... whenever I do around my area
it is old pics. they need to update.
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you guys need to use the birds-eye shots from microsofts: http://local.live.com

you can even find your own car in these:

sorry about the resolution, i wanted to keep it somewhat large...
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I found my car in birds eye before. no lie. I looked all around Quincy Ma before
and found her at my Moms work, right where I use to park to pick her up.
again its over a year old at least.
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Originally Posted by Gumball
I found my car in birds eye before. no lie. I looked all around Quincy Ma before
and found her at my Moms work, right where I use to park to pick her up.
again its over a year old at least.
i found mine too, actaully, my old car, but it was at my work in Nashua, NH when i was at Pepboys
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How do you guys get those nice clear pictures. Mine just shows a grainy black and white image.
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cool site! Jeff was scoping some stuff out last night.
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How do you guys get those nice clear pictures. Mine just shows a grainy black and white image.
depends on the area i guess. I looked up my parent'* house [woodsy area] and got the grainy pics...looked up my house [rural area] got color pics....looked up my job [metro area] and got colors pics & the birds-eye view option.
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That'* pretty cool....My only deal is why can't they connect all the segments into one big shot to pan around in?

PITA.....

The building I work in at the refinery is cut out between 2 pics lol.

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FlintHillsResources1.jpg


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