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Yeah, I use that as well, I guess my question is more like how do you get it so clear of stuff? Here's what mine usually look like:
And that's with most of the screen outside the snip, so I have to do twice as many to get a good map as I would have to if half the screen wasn't full of google map's garbage
Well Bugout only uses Earth, so if you want those features go try it. Earth is a free download on any computer or smart device. Also keep in mind that while Google Earth is awesome and literally gets better by the day, that some remote areas have "old" satellite images that are not as clear as other images. I have even seen where I am scrolling along the ground with great quality and then all of a sudden a certain area goes lower resolution. Same for over the oceans too. Use Earth long enough and you will see what I mean.
More of a question about bugout4x4's maps since they have titles, legends, scale, etc
Originally Posted by StealthyMcStealth
Well Bugout only uses Earth, so if you want those features go try it. Earth is a free download on any computer or smart device. Also keep in mind that while Google Earth is awesome and literally gets better by the day, that some remote areas have "old" satellite images that are not as clear as other images. I have even seen where I am scrolling along the ground with great quality and then all of a sudden a certain area goes lower resolution. Same for over the oceans too. Use Earth long enough and you will see what I mean.
Here's what happened. Google had two options years ago... free and pro. I downloaded their free option and it worked fine but didn't have those exact features you see there and ask about in mine. Then recently they dumped an auto update upgrade on me that was now labeled as "pro". I'm still getting used to it but this particular version has these features. So if you do a little digging you might be able to update and upgrade to this version for free?
I don't know what their terms are for sure, but with a little digging you could find out. It may take an uninstall of the older version if you have it and then a new install of what they have now. But honestly, I like the old version better, this one tends to leave a lot of pixel areas unfilled sometimes. Read up on it and please let me know what you find out, I am curious myself because I didn't actually go looking for this version, it was dumped on me. lol
Edit: If you think you already have his newer "pro version" let me know and I can point you to the buttons that bring up the save screen you see me using here.
This one is near Phoenix on the northwest side of the valley and has been partially built over.
Know what? All those must have been built back when a plane couldn't pass a gas station and ran out of fuel a lot. lol
I will still go digging for the one you posted man. Just been doing a lot of stuff in other directions the last week or so. Now I have to go to town today for supplies. Busy busy...
Interesting historical fact I ran across while doing other research... KML, (Keyhole Markup Language) which Google earth is based on, Originated and is still funded by the Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Science & Technology. It actually belongs to us as the taxpayers not Google.
"Google Earth was originally developed by Keyhole, Inc., a Mountain View-based company founded in 2001. Keyhole, after being spun off from Intrinsic Graphics, received funding from the Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital firm, In-Q-Tel and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, in addition to smaller capital from Nvidia and Sony. Keyhole developed the program under the name Keyhole EarthViewer, and sold the product for uses in fields such as real estate, urban planning, defense, and intelligence. Google acquired the company in 2004, driving public interest in geospatial technologies and applications. Since then, Google has given the program a focus on exploration, with tours provided by humanitarian outreach programs, 3D modeling of hundreds of cities, and 3D globes of other planets."
"Originally named Peleus and known as In-Q-It, In-Q-Tel was founded by Norm Augustine, a former CEO of Lockheed Martin and by Gilman Louie, who was In-Q-Tel's first CEO. In-Q-Tel’s mission is to identify and invest in companies developing cutting-edge technologies that serve United States national security interests. Origins of the corporation can be traced to Dr. Ruth A. David, who headed the Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Science & Technology in the 1990s and promoted the importance of rapidly advancing information technology for the CIA. In-Q-Tel now engages with entrepreneurs, growth companies, researchers, and venture capitalists to deliver technologies that provide superior capabilities for the CIA, DIA, NGA, and the wider intelligence community. In-Q-Tel concentrates on three broad commercial technology areas: software, infrastructure and materials sciences.
Former CIA director George Tenet says,
We [the CIA] decided to use our limited dollars to leverage technology developed elsewhere. In 1999 we chartered ... In-Q-Tel. ... While we pay the bills, In-Q-Tel is independent of CIA. CIA identifies pressing problems, and In-Q-Tel provides the technology to address them. The In-Q-Tel alliance has put the Agency back at the leading edge of technology ... This ... collaboration ... enabled CIA to take advantage of the technology that Las Vegas uses to identify corrupt card players and apply it to link analysis for terrorists [cf. the parallel data-mining effort by the SOCOM-DIA operation Able Danger ], and to adapt the technology that online booksellers use and convert it to scour millions of pages of documents looking for unexpected results.
In-Q-Tel sold 5,636 shares of Google, worth over $2.2 million, on November 15, 2005.[9] The stocks were a result of Google’s acquisition of Keyhole, the CIA funded satellite mapping software now known as Google Earth.
As of August 2006, In-Q-Tel had reviewed more than 5,800 business plans, invested some $150 million in more than 90 companies, and delivered more than 130 technology solutions to the intelligence community. In 2005 it was said to be funded with about $37 million a year from the CIA."
Finally getting caught up and needed to explain my situation to Stealthy. I am going to go to find that airport man. But I have to wait until I renew my monthly high speed data plan again. GE is totally dependent on high speed or it takes 20 minutes or more to load EACH layer as I zoom in on a site.
So it is a pain in the rear when my high speed has been used up for the month and I don't even fire up GE unless it is something very very important I just absolutely need to do on it. I'll be back in the saddle around the 13th man. Didn't want you to think I was blowing that off.
And I'll catch up with you about those interesting sites in your backyard at the same time.
02-27-2018, 08:31 PM
Google had two options years ago... free and pro. I downloaded their free option and it worked fine but didn't have those exact features you see there and ask about in mine. Then recently they dumped an auto update upgrade on me that was now labeled as "pro". I'm still getting used to it but this particular version has these features. So if you do a little digging you might be able to update and upgrade to this version for free? 
