OK, point taken.
I'll offer a little verbiage, since I started the thread. I'll tell you a little story about this little creek that you can see on the terraserver site here:
http://www.terraserver-usa.org/image...+beach%7cOR%7c
My grandmother lived in a little beach house just south of here, and I used to spend summers there, sometimes with my older brother. He was a hippy then, and I was his adoring little brother.
We would walk on the railroad tracks down to the creek (see the tracks in the photo?). I remember we would throw rocks from the trestle, see who could hit a target in the creek below.
One day we heard a whistle. It was the Union Pacific and we were sitting on the outside of the trestle, legs hanging down on a lazy July afternoon. The train wasn't coming very fast, so I just got up and ran off the trestle and over onto the side of the embankment.
Rick just sat there, looking over at me with a stupid grin on his face.
The train came chugging slowly over the trestle and he was obscured on the other side. It seemed like hours went by.
Finally the caboose rambled past, but bro was nowhere to be seen. What the hell? Did he fall off ? ? ? Jump off? Where was he?
Then there was a anguished voice behind me "Help me, I'm dying, please" And I spun around and there Rick was, guffawing behind me. He had just walked around on the 6-foot margin of the trestle, and underneath the bridge, and out on the other side while I was sitting there catching flies watching the train.
End of silly story, circa 1968.
Anybody else want to post a location and tell a story about it?
I dunno if I'm the only one, but I think this technology is absolutely amazing. Just 15 years ago, people would have thought you were a lunatic if you said that soon anybody will be able to see an aerial photo of just about any address in the country at the click of a button.
It's a map of my life.