OSINT At Home #16 - My top five tools in Google Earth Pro

[@JorgeLausell]

TY! Ben. I've a project where I need ability to locate & cut-paste blocks from maps & into an area. Say to function as a tutorial: Pick your favorite 100 urban blocks & paste them together into a 10x10 grid! Keeping the scale together. I'd then need the bits identified. Street, building footprint, type, parking, park, all of it. To be able to add up the data variously. How much in streets, sidewalks, building footprint, parking? To begin with! Eventually I will add my urban designs. I want to say, look at the total major construction growth, Seattle over the past 12 years. Collect all of the new buildings, their lots & the streets around them, use their totals in terms of sqftage internal & use. Costs... Then "drop" my design in, locating potential sties, & show comparative functionality. I'm just wrapping my head around what is available now to do what I've been working on the designs for now most my life as a hobby. Only now looking at fashioning a crew to get a presentation done that will be part of getting them built. I always knew tech would catch up with my designs, the urban ones in particular. I was planning all along to "come out of retirement" to elevate my passionate hobby into a profession. Your podcast helps, clear, thank you. I'm taking an inventory of tech. Goal is a flexibly configured VR model to provide a walk through of my proposal for a Interstate "Cover" to I-5 right in the physical center of Seattle, to unify & address future needs. Crew of 3-5 motivated in 6 months? I'm just staging out what management of that looks like & needs. "Say you were gifted a 2km Borg Cube... Only the insides were gutted leaving a horizontal construction platform, incorporating all utilities & horizontal transportation infrastructure, spaced to leave a 13 meter level. The whole of that construction platform includes a 2 meter tall section that goes along the whole cube. Leaving aside the supportive structural requirements for now, we've got a 13 meter tall section chosen to be tall enough to feel roomy. The 2 meter tall section within the platform is there to solve the elevator problem, in addition to other functions. Rather than extending monotonously straight across solid, the construction platforms would be swiss cheesed to enhance architectural expressions. EVEN in an Earth Friendly version of the 2 KM Borg cube of only 100 meters tall, this can be leveraged to great effect. Everything about designing space changes! Everything about how we perceive space changes. The solution to the elevator problem allows for individual on demand transportation that brings you from home to any other place you have security clearance for within minutes. Most public areas would have access points. Spread around like a 3D bus stop grid. What does a "house call" mean when a Doctor, from their office, steps into an elevator and emerges In the patient's apartment, or house? Oh aint I chatty! Thanks. I'll be around!

[@Zuaquim1]

Great tips, thank you! Are there other websites where I can download updated images from cities with no cost?

[@UnixOath]

I have a question, what's the difference between Google Earth Pro and Google Earth Enterprise?

[@Bendobrown]

Enterprise is for more self-hosting of imagery for those familiar with the GE platform. You can check out more about it here: static.googleusercontent.com/media/earth.google.com/en//outreach/data/googleearthoutreach_earth_enterprise_info_sheet.pdf

[@UnixOath]

@@Bendobrown I know about Google Earth Enterprise being open source, is Google Earth pro technically open source?

[@bigfan1364]

This will be a great thing to do for multiple false flags recently, in the U.S. Thank you very much. 😉

[@f8PixelMagic]

Great overview! Thank you for this content.

[@Bendobrown]

Glad it was helpful!

[@balkrishna1371]

Thank you so much Ben. This is so useful. Thanks for devoting time to make these videos. I feel point 4 and 5 deserve two full episodes each with more examples how to do that (step by step) and explain in detail the use cases for this tricks.

[@Bendobrown]

Thank you! I'll definitely look at doing that. Really appreciate it.

[@inyangeffiong]

Good stuff and well presented

[@Bendobrown]

Much appreciated!

[@AnhDaoBui-r1f]

Thanks. Very helpful. How do we access free Lidar data?

[@nai8374]

Thank you! Is there a way to see a satellite image of a specific time on a recent date and time? In your video example we can only see an image of a whole month.

[@usernamemykel]

Ben, which mouse (?) are you using, please? Many thanks!

[@alfonsoorantes843]

Love ur videos my friend!!’ I have a question how can I find grain silos in my country? I Dont have any idea, the most of them are not registered in Google maps, you can see them by satélite

[@Bendobrown]

You could use wikimapia or osm maps and type in 'grain silo'. Wikimapia for example has more than 8000 entries on grain objects.

[@OsintArabic]

Thanks for awesome tips

[@Bendobrown]

Always welcome 🙏

[@shambu4377]

❤

[@noahcasey369]

FIRMS maps are offered through a feature-rich WMS so you can automatically update on say a daily basis. They have data from a host of different satellites and you can call the data in a specific projection, symbology, data density, and custom date ranges for when the heat signatures are detected. I personally keep it simple, but for some specific purposes the FIRMS data is wonderful, and free!

[@justinquarshie5732]

How can I access the WMS link for FIRMS

[@Bendobrown]

firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/mapserver/wms-info/

[@bubanga]

Great tips, I saved it for later to take notes and watch it full focus. Thanks!

[@Bendobrown]

Glad it was helpful!

[@shortandcurl]

Ben, thank you for sharing your knowledge! This is a great tutorial!

[@Bendobrown]

My pleasure!

[@gagaguthrie]

Can you show me how you're tilting with the mouse. I don't have something set right.

[@Jeremy-ug2zf]

thanks for the acronms i have had all i can take for learning about u

[@munshiyari]

Wonderful. Liked the 5th one most

[@Bendobrown]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@ceciliacoch5722]

Ty vm Ben. Love this videos.

[@Bendobrown]

Thank you so much 🙏

[@evilcryification]

Brilliant and useful as usual! Thanks!

[@Bendobrown]

Glad it was helpful!

[@100hand]

Great tips, thank you!

[@Bendobrown]

You are so welcome!

[@tottotdoro9584]

can we used the infrared google earth?! if do so how?!

[@Bendobrown]

Sadly not!

[@bobaloo2012]

I'm afraid I had to turn it off half way through. I like the content but the way you were constantly flicking in and out and jerking the view around was giving me vertigo. Try slowing down the mouse movements and making fewer, more deliberate moves? Maybe just me but I couldn't handle watching the movement.