Here’s an email from this evening:
“I know you probably get a lot of e-mails, but I wanted to thank you for posting your aerials of Panama City, Panama on the net.
“I am a Landscape Architecture Student at PSU and we are studying an area that you took photos of, El Chorrillo, next to the Casco.”
This is what I love about the Internet. Back in January 2004, I took some photos with a point and shoot digital camera and stuck them on the Web. More than three years later, a guy searches and they end up being helpful to him, at no cost to anyone (except a loss of social life, perhaps).
[I responded asking why the images were more useful than Google Earth and it turns out that they are higher resolution and the oblique angle allows the estimation of heights.]
Philip,
Could you post a comment with the link to the Panama City photos? I’d be interested in seeing them.
Thanks,
Thomas
http://www.photo.net/philip-greenspun/photos/digiphotos/200401-panama-city-aerials/
It’s the very first thing to come up on google.
That is the great thing about putting unique and useful information into cyber space, you know that people around the world for eternity will be able to find and put to use good content you publish.
I still get appreciative emails from content and good information I put on the web 5-6 years ago, some of them are weird, some even kind of creepy, but the gestures of appreciating make the research and time put into quality information worthwhile