Google Earth is amazing software that lets you fly over and capture satellite images using its search technology. It's tilting function and direction produce mindblowing visuals that enable you to experience any American city from a birds-eye view. Some American cities even feature 3-D buildings. The software covers the entire globe, but the international city images are less detailed. But their view of natural terrain is terrific, however. It can be downloaded for free at

http://earth.google.com/

Hope this works. Some pictures of OKC using Google Earth:

Downtown OKC:



A possible spot for a casino? Reno between I-235 and MLK:



Another possible casino site, the Riverside neighborhood just south of downtown. IMO it should remain a neighborhood with a mall stretching down the middle and a plaza/carnival space on the shore:



A look at the location of Gardner/Tanenbaum's Lincoln at Central Park:

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Let's try this again:

Downtown OKC

http://www.okctalk.com/gallery/showp...9/limit/recent

Riverside

http://www.okctalk.com/gallery/showp...0/limit/recent

Reno

http://www.okctalk.com/gallery/showp...1/limit/recent

Lincoln at Central Park

http://www.okctalk.com/gallery/showp...2/limit/recent

Sorry about the small image sizes, I thought shrinking might help them fit into the post.

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Yeah, it's very cool software.

I've actually had it for a while when it was a subscription service called Keyhole -- before Google bought them out. I love the way you can overlay zip code boundaries, restaurants, etc. On bigger cities like NYC, you get true 3-D imaging of the taller buildings.


Unfortunately their shots of Bricktown are several years old.


For more up to date arials, go here:

http://oklahoma.latitudegeo.com/imf/...ma/launch.html

Very cool pictures Floater, thanks.

Yeah it suprises me that if there are more current images available, google Earth doesn't use them. You can tell that the downtown shots are old. In the downtown shots the work has not even begun on the Galleria Parking Garage, so yhou know the pictures have to be, what, 3 years old at least?

Actually, Google either has or had a map that was not a download that would be so complete, you could see the people walking down the street.

The download is 200mb which to me is too large for a program I might use on a rare occasion.

You can see more recent pictures of anywhere in OK county at

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oklahomacounty[dot]org click on the county assessor (Leonard Sullivan) and go to the assessor's website. Then go to search>interactive GIS map.

It is more than just pictures, it is a complete GIS system. Click the folders on the right to see the different overlays. If you want to know anything about a parcel of land, click the "i" button at the top then click a parcel. There are so many features it will take you quite a while to explore them all.