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Offline Borek

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Google Earth - your coordinates?
« on: January 14, 2006, 09:49:48 AM »
Have you installed Google Earth?

See me at 52°19'37.86"N, 21°05'23.92"E

Well, you can see roof only, but I am most likely below :)

Although I was not home when the picture was taken - my car is not on the street.

Se also Warsaw University Chemistry Faculty located at 52°12'54.33"N 20°58'57.53"E - branched buliding. Northern part is mostly administrative/organic, central (wide wing to the left) contains large lecture hall, southern wings are inorganic/analytical/electrochemical, most southern part of the building (near the trees) - is physical chemistry and computational chemistry.
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Re:Google Earth - your coordinates?
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2006, 02:45:08 PM »
I haven't installed Google Earth (I have only a dial-up connection so it wouldn't work too well) but I know my home coordinates are N30 15.754 W97 46.520.  (This is expressed as degrees and fractional minutes, no seconds.  I.e. one step of annoying unit conversion removed.)

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Re:Google Earth - your coordinates?
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2006, 02:56:06 PM »
I used Earth Viewer in 2002 and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Then the company disappeared and now all those old photos are used by google. Strange.
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Re:Google Earth - your coordinates?
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2006, 03:15:05 PM »
Quote from: Mark Kness on January 16, 2006, 02:45:08 PM
N30 15.754 W97 46.520

Austin? Somehow I remembered you stated you live in Chile. But perhaps I have mistaken Texas flag and Chile flag. From this distance they are hard to recognize ;)
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Re:Google Earth - your coordinates?
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2006, 04:04:05 PM »
Quote from: Borek on January 16, 2006, 03:15:05 PM
Austin? Somehow I remembered you stated you live in Chile. But perhaps I have mistaken Texas flag and Chile flag. From this distance they are hard to recognize ;)

Yes, Austin, Texas.  The flags are indeed similar, I'm not sure what the difference (if any) is.  I might change the star to a Longhorn symbol (University of Texas) someday.

The Texas flag is partly to point out the ridiculous fact that it is illegal for me to own an Erlenmeyer flask without a permit (a process that is unreasonably burdensome and otherwise unacceptable).  Sadly, I am not making this up.

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Re: Google Earth - your coordinates?
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2006, 01:16:30 AM »
You can see my house clearly at these coordinates.

27 33'37.14"S, 153 13'14.55"E

Come and visit sunny Brisbane, Australia!  ;)
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Re: Google Earth - your coordinates?
« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2006, 05:00:05 AM »
I will live, for the next three months, at 52°19'15.55" N    4°52'34.52" E and work at 52°20'10.42" N    4°51'32.64" E .

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Re: Google Earth - your coordinates?
« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2006, 08:08:02 AM »
Oxford looks like a smudge so it's hardly worth it. Why has the eyesore that is cambridge got high resolution? The injustice!
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Re: Google Earth - your coordinates?
« Reply #8 on: July 11, 2006, 05:53:46 PM »
For the last 9 years and the next for the next 3 days, and between the 2nd August and 3rd September I have/will live here: 51o31'16.84"N (or 51.5213456464N)  0o18'14.58"W (or 0.304050358861), and hopefully from 3rd September for the next few years I will be living here: 43o40'02.28"N (or 43.6673006479N)  79o23'57.48"W (or 79.3993004721W). That aerial view is quite old as now there is a lovely modern residence in place of the building site. I just really hope my application is successful for that residence, otherwise I will have to live in some ugly place, with a meal plan (:-X), miles from the chemistry department :'(.
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Re: Google Earth - your coordinates?
« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2006, 08:09:48 AM »
So, you're moving to Toronto, aren't you?

Rather close to a stadium, isn't it?  :)
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Re: Google Earth - your coordinates?
« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2006, 10:49:51 AM »
Quote from: Albert on July 12, 2006, 08:09:48 AM
So, you're moving to Toronto, aren't you?

Rather close to a stadium, isn't it?  :)

Yeah, all the flights are booked and I'm off to Toronto! ;D

And about the stadium; the residence is rather close to a now demolished stadium. ;)

At least the sports fields near you are still functioning. :P
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Re: Google Earth - your coordinates?
« Reply #11 on: July 13, 2006, 04:46:31 PM »
I just got accepted into the Woodsworth residence (the nice one ;))!!! I am SOOOOOOO HAPPPPY!!!!!
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Re: Google Earth - your coordinates?
« Reply #12 on: July 14, 2006, 05:58:51 AM »
Congrats
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Re: Google Earth - your coordinates?
« Reply #13 on: July 14, 2006, 02:14:48 PM »
Since now a Googleearth version for linux is available.... :P

I'm under this roof at the moment: 47o 14' 10.06"N , 9o 35' 27.48" E

...I'll work at 47°10'12.14"N  , 9°47'58.01"E until August 6th

....And I'll spend my holidays here: 45o12' 25.44" N  ,  14o16'35,79"

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