Good overlay source perhaps
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 7:43 pm
Ran across this site, which seems to be a good source of info re: Russian military facilities vis-a-vis satellite photos.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=68.20 ... nogorsk-N)
I'm currently working on recreating the Moscow A-135 ABM system for a near-future scenario I'm cooking up, and I thought the site might be useful for other folks looking for good overlay photos (along with helpful descriptions). You can actually get a list of all the SAM sites they have, for instance. Pretty handy.
I also noticed that the Bing satellite photos can go a couple levels higher mag than the Google ones, but I'm not sure if it's actually better res or just more zoomed-in.
I really think this overlay feature could be a bigger deal than I realized, in terms of creating accurate facilities - at least for things which are currently under the gaze of the eyes in the sky.
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=68.20 ... nogorsk-N)
I'm currently working on recreating the Moscow A-135 ABM system for a near-future scenario I'm cooking up, and I thought the site might be useful for other folks looking for good overlay photos (along with helpful descriptions). You can actually get a list of all the SAM sites they have, for instance. Pretty handy.
I also noticed that the Bing satellite photos can go a couple levels higher mag than the Google ones, but I'm not sure if it's actually better res or just more zoomed-in.
I really think this overlay feature could be a bigger deal than I realized, in terms of creating accurate facilities - at least for things which are currently under the gaze of the eyes in the sky.