Here's a satellite pic of ONE of my favorite roads to test and tool around on!

Although it flat, at speed it's very challenging due to deformations in the road that could cause you tires to skip http://www.i-club.com/ubb-files/smilies/eek.gif if your bumpsteer isn't set up correctly.

It's the small road the follows along the west bank of the river. http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/printimage.asp?S=12&T=1&X=694&Y=6560&Z=10&W=0

to find a pic of your "secret" road click on the TerraServer link at the top of the page and find your state, then city, then area, ...


--Reiflex
ImprezaRacing (http://www.reiff.freeservers.com)

thats very cool

I found my apartment! Cool!

When I was working at my last job, I got to use the aerial photos all the time. Spotted some wicked looking ones. Gonna have to go see if I can find some of them one day.

damn thats soo sweet...i wish i can take my RS there..heheh

very cool site.

I like this road. This is a very famous car commercial site. It's Rt1 north of SF

http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=12&T=1&X=668&Y=5240&Z=10&W=0

ChrisW:

UNF UNF UNF I like your road.

Nice! We don't have anything like that here in Illinois. The best you get around here is the streets the wackos that designed subdivisions created.

While they don't have the Arial photo, they do have the topographical from my favorite, out behind my dad's place in AL

http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=14&T=2&X=150&Y=1168&Z=16&W=0

Here is my condo!

It's the second one next to de upside down white #1

Its the middle building of those three and facing the street and ocean!
http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=10&T=1&X=4074&Y=10208&Z=19&W=2

Leo

Our old drag strip:
http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=11&T=1&X=1525&Y=10183&Z=10&W=0

We would start in front of the small farmhouse in the lower right corner and run up the road from there. http://www.i-club.com/ubb-files/smilies/smile.gif

Dolan Road, Moss Landing, CA

Was fun until the police came in and put up no parking 10:00 pm - 5:00 am signs...so nobody would want to park on the street anymore. Oh well

Wow, this is cool!

Heres our Family beach house up at Fort Bragg, California: (It has its own picture! http://www.i-club.com/ubb-files/smilies/biggrin.gif) http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=10&T=1&X=2150&Y=21821&Z=10&W=0

And heres the family cabin in the sierras... At least, i think its somewhere in here... The topographic map says so http://www.i-club.com/ubb-files/smilies/tongue.gif http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=10&T=1&X=3603&Y=21776&Z=10&W=0

And heres where im sitting right now http://www.i-club.com/ubb-files/smilies/biggrin.gif Its the third house over from the street going down vertically in the middle, on the corner of that court: http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=10&T=1&X=3603&Y=21776&Z=10&W=0
Heres the S-curve I drive on every day http://www.i-club.com/ubb-files/smilies/tongue.gif (on the right) http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=12&T=1&X=814&Y=5360&Z=10&W=0

*BUMP*

http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=12&T=1&X=426&Y=5861&Z=18&W=2

Here's mine, Watkins Glen International Race track! I'll be back out there in September for another driving school, god I love that track!

This is a very cool thread! I love STiShawn's satelite pic of Watkins Glen! It makes me very jealous! I'm in the opposite corner of the states, in southern California, so I should be responding with a sat pic of Riverside International Raceway, which also hosted the U.S. GP, but (sniff) it is no more. Got bulldozed and turned into another LA suburb. So here is my favorite twisty road which is just a quiet canyon road a few miles between my home and the late RIR. It is the light colored squiqly running E & W across the bottom. She's a nice California canyon road for 2nd through 4th gears in my WRX. Cajalco Cyn Rd (http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=13&T=1&X=284&Y=2339&Z=11&W=1)

Nifty! Here's Hwy 11 (Chuckanut Drive) south of Bellingham, WA:
http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=13&T=1&X=338&Y=3365&Z=10&W=2

Kind of hard to see. It's the very thin line that more or less follows the coast.

Jordan

Here are some twisty bits that I like:
http://207.46.235.30/image.asp?S=11&T=1&X=1585&Y=11607&Z=18&W=2

Who can identify it? It's pretty easy if you're from the northeast.

-adam

Isn't that a river(referring to original trhead)?

The river is the thick dark line, the thin light line right along the right side of it is the 1 1/2 lane road .

Poseidon, I've been on that road once when I got lost going to Canada once. The most fun I ever had getting lost. http://www.i-club.com/ubb-files/smilies/smile.gif Actually when back up it again for the fun of it.

--Reiflex
ImprezaRacing (http://www.reiff.freeservers.com)

Here's a little stretch that we run on near Asheville, NC. This is going up the side of a mountain.

http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=11&T=1&X=836&Y=9882&Z=17&W=2

Ross N.

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING!!! http://www.i-club.com/ubb-files/smilies/wink.gif


Very cool, though.

SIR (http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=12&T=1&X=705&Y=6551&Z=10&W=1) in Seattle (not close to seattle at all!)

SIR is like only 10 mins from were I live.

hehe
here's home when I'm not at school
http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=10&T=1&X=3499&Y=21460&Z=10&W=0

zoom out and know that there's mad fire roads through all those trees, as well as some crazy mountain roads http://www.i-club.com/ubb-files/smilies/smile.gif

This is some pretty damn cool stuff. I've seen aerial photos before, but didn't know where to find them. Just think for a minute the amount of data that is stored on a server somewhere for each of us to be able to call up his home/favorite road/whatever. Pretty amazing, this internet thing.

Adam - The "1 mi S of Lime Rock, CT" that comes up at the top of the image kinda gives it away. http://www.i-club.com/ubb-files/smilies/wink.gif If you look real close, you can see the skid marks and furrows in the dirt to the inside of the turn in the lower left corner - that's where I totalled my car. OK, you can't really see it, since the picture was taken 9 years before I crashed there. Made you look! http://www.i-club.com/ubb-files/smilies/biggrin.gif

Now, it's time for my meaningless highlights. First, here's where I work - the Naval Submarine Base in Groton, CT. There's a big building smack dab in the middle of the picture - I work in the building with the 90deg angle that is just to the right of that center building. http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=10&T=1&X=3717&Y=22932&Z=18&W=2 Note that it appears that all of the submarines were smudged out of the picture - you can clearly see two tugs on one of the southern piers (you may have to zoom out once or twice), but around all of the other piers the picture is blurry. Maybe it's just due to excessive glare from the white concrete piers.

Here's one of my favorite roads, Rte 234 near Mystic and Stonington, CT. It's the nice winding road running pretty much horizontally across the top of the image http://207.46.235.30/image.asp?S=13&T=1&X=159&Y=2865&Z=19&W=2 , crossing I-95 in the middle-right of the picture. I live just off the right of the picture, you can see the nice 180deg on-ramp I take every morning to I-95 on the very right edge of the picture.

I found a couple other good roads, but they're so hard to make out (everything runs through forest around here) there's not much point in posting the links.

Pat Olsen
'97 Legacy 2.5GT sedan

maybe those subs have a top secret gizmo that creates some kind localized interference for satellite photography imaging. http://www.i-club.com/ubb-files/smilies/tongue.gif

Ok, time to pull my head out of the 1001 modern conspiracy theories book http://www.i-club.com/ubb-files/smilies/biggrin.gif

This one is on the Terraserver Famous Places list. Maybe some of you West-Coasters could give the rest of us some idea of just what in the hell the civil engineer who layed out that road was thinking...

http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=11&T=1&X=900&Y=9740&Z=11&W=1

Ross N.

mi casa: http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=10&T=1&X=2400&Y=15989&Z=17&W=0
and twisties I will go to when I have a car> As You can see I REALLY think ahead: http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=12&T=1&X=600&Y=3991&Z=17&W=2
it is the road that comes off of the main road the then re attaches. Unfortunatly parts of it are covered by trees
It is almost as if the road's only purpose is to have curves. In deltona you don't have to go real far to find twisties but this road is not traveled to often and has no cops is paved nicely


[This message has been edited by imprezive (edited April 26, 2001).]

That is cool, but they're so outdated. Half the houses on my street weren't even built yet on that thing.

Here's some twisties:

http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=12&T=1&X=405&Y=5383&Z=18&W=2

i'm bummed...they don't even show half of omaha in their image files...so i can't see my house...http://www.i-club.com/ubb-files/smilies/frown.gif

Subie Q homeland: http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=10&T=1&X=2163&Y=18562&Z=11&W=1
My area was just being built up as this photo was taken.
A year or so before this I was mountain biking over where I live now.

Check this one.... http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=14&T=1&X=117&Y=1239&Z=13&W=0

Thats the start of a LONG road that is a back way from Los Alamos, NM to ABQ, NM

If you ever get the chance, this may well be the best 80 miles in the US - no towns, 1 gas station, and sweeping turn after sweeping turn.

http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/image.asp?S=17&T=2&X=25&Y=200&Z=11&W=2