Numpty Google Earth question

It's not in real time, is it? If not, then how far off?

And if there's an option to set it to real time (or close), then how?

Yes, guess who wants to examine the snow cover from altitude, as it
were?

 

No, not real time and it varies as they update various bits. For
example, the view of Southend Airport didn't show the Vulcan bomber
that lives there for a long time as the composite shots had been taken
at different times and the plane had been moved about the airfield in
between. But it's "back there" now. A lot of the original shots dated
from 2001 but they're constantly adding and improving to it. The view
of my house currently still shows the trees that blew over last year
but does show the car that I bought in 2006.

No, you're stuck with what's there.

Useless for assessing current conditions.

 

Is there an outdoor webcam somewhere in the area?
I bet you could google for it but I wouldn't know where to start.

 

Have you checked that there isn't a site with a webcam giving real
time pictures? I know it'd only give a limited view of the area but
it'd be a starting point.

 

In some parts, years!

Only for some feratures, such as the sky map.

You'll need to look at some of the Met Office stuff, here maybe for a
start:

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/satpics/latest_IR.html

I doubt you'll see such a thing on Google Earth as yet, the maps are
made from photos made over many years, and take a long time to get
updated, again a timescale of years. There are 'near real time' features
in the paid up versions of it, but only for GPS.

You might have some luck with the addons stuff - there are some weather
plugins, but seem to only show one image every 24 hours.

http://earth.google.com/gallery/index.html

 

Have a word over on uk.sci.weather. One of the bods on there may know of a
webcam local to where you're going.

JB

 

http://www.snoweye.com/

 

Indeed. The web site for the resort is a good starting point. Even pikey
areas like the Massif du Sancy (Super Besse & Mont Dore) have them.
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Bugger. There goes another hour.

 

Oh yes, there are webcams in the resort. The trouble is that (a) as
you say, they're limited view and (b) the French have an endearing
habit of not running them in real time, if conditions are crappy, but
continuing to show pictures of conditions a few days old.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, The Older

As you now know, it's not sufficiently up-to-date. But even if it was,
how useful would it be? You'd get "white", or "not white". The snow
could be 0.5cm deep, or 30 metres.

I gather that's important to you types who insist on sliding down hills
with planks tied to your feet.

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Oh yeah, but when conditions are *really* crappy (as they are right
now in the Pyrenees) you do get an awful lot of brown as well. And if
you know where to look in the resort in question, and you see lots of
brown, you might have time to arrange an alternative.

 

Try http://www.welove2ski.com/jsp/index.jsp?lnk=530. It's new and
pretty good for near enough live forecasts showing on a map.

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Chunks are years out. cf Waltham Point distribution centre in Waltham Abbey

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I didn't know you could ski there?

 

The image of my house near Bury St Edmunds used to be quite new, but it's
now been replaced with a much higher resolution images that must be at least
twenty years old (houses built in the seventies and large willow trees are
missing!) being synical I assume it hase something to do with the nearby
American air bases.


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Sounds like a lot of shit.

Divided by a common language, again.

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It's big enough.

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Alps look good.... off there in a week

 

That's sat on top of my old factory

sigh