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Nazca Lines
      #615 - 03/16/03 09:40 PM

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There was a request for some higher resolution on the West Coast of Peru. More specifically for the area of the Nazca Plain. Well instead of waiting for the aircraft to do a pass or two, I went off and found some NASA, Landsat TM imagery. There are 4 overlays, each getting a little closer. Overlay 1 being the lowest resolution and overlay 4, the highest res.
For more info, go to Wikipedia.

To learn more about the area and lines, use your favorite search engine:
"Nazca Plains"
"Nazca Lines"

The underlying Google Earth data is now higher resolution than the overlays

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Nazca Lines #2 [Re: Lrae]
      #617 - 03/16/03 09:45 PM

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And the second step...

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Nazca Lines #3 [Re: Lrae]
      #618 - 03/16/03 09:46 PM

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Closer and Closer...

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Nazca Lines #4 [Re: Lrae]
      #619 - 03/16/03 09:48 PM

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And now you have a close-up look at those lines.

Hope you enjoy.

Converted to KMZ

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Re: Nazca Lines #4 [Re: Lrae]
      #895 - 03/25/03 05:16 PM

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Very nice. Oddly enough I was looking for Nazca the other day. I've attached a placemark that zooms in to what looks like the spider pattern. (see Spider )

ta Lrae

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Re: Nazca Lines #4 [Re: Lrae]
      #30106 - 06/03/05 05:33 PM

it is higher resolution without the overlay

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Re: Nazca Lines [Re: Lrae]
      #30445 - 06/06/05 04:40 AM

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How about a Nazca figure, bit more interesting than a few lines.

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New Data [Re: mikesurovik]
      #35384 - 07/04/05 12:06 AM

Well, that's what happens in a world of updated data. The new data is better than my overlays, which were better than the old 1 km data.

How about a link to some good info about the Nazca Plain .

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Re: Nazca Lines [Re: Lrae]
      #36605 - 07/06/05 07:05 AM

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I tryied to put a sketch of Nazca patterns as overlay of the map, but it's difficult: someone can do it better?

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Re: Nazca Lines [Re: LionelB]
      #38238 - 07/09/05 06:10 AM

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Some photos of figures available at:

http://rosset.org/photography/nazca/nazca01.htm



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