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[crelf]

I'd like to encourage everyone (new users especially) to update your location on the LAVA Member Map. We'd love to see where everyone is across the world!

[Darren]

I tried, but when I used the "Quick Search" and put my address as Austin, TX, 78727, it gave me back an empty Lat and Long.

-D

[Michael Aivaliotis]

Ok, then don't use the quick search.
Use this or this.

Or even this.

Note the improvement to the Google Map? You can now see streets for Europe!

[PJM_labview]

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Note the improvement to the Google Map? You can now see streets for Europe!
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This is cool! :thumbup:

PJM

[Michael Aivaliotis]

This is cool! :thumbup:

PJM

Ya, Google's really improving their satellite imagery.

[David Boyd]

Ya, Google's really improving their satellite imagery.

OK, Michael, care to tell us where that image is located? Just curious.

Dave

P.S. I love looking at the member map and spotting the ones who are out in the Arctic Ocean or in the Patanál basin. Seems like a few folk had trouble with that positive/negative longitude thing...

[PJM_labview]

OK, Michael, care to tell us where that image is located? Just curious.

I'll give you a clue

PJM

[Chris Davis]

OK, Michael, care to tell us where that image is located? Just curious.

Dave

P.S. I love looking at the member map and spotting the ones who are out in the Arctic Ocean or in the Patanál basin. Seems like a few folk had trouble with that positive/negative longitude thing...

I believe its the Arc de Triumph, in Paris, France. I have seen it, just not from space. Walking the up the stairs of the Ephel Tower is a great workout!

[crelf]

I believe its the Arc de Triumph, in Paris, France. I have seen it, just not from space. Walking the up the stairs of the Ephel Tower is a great workout!

Eiffel I was there a couple of months ago - Arc De Triomphe, Tour Eiffel, Champs de Mars, Bonaparte's tomb, Musée d'Louvre, Jardin des Tuilleries, La Seine, Hôtel National des Invalides, Musee d' Rodin, Chateau de Versailles, Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris, Toulouse... Ahhhhhhhh France..........

I'm sorry, I, uh... I ate a lot of sugar today...

[Chris Davis]

I'm sorry, I, uh... I ate a lot of sugar today...

Right....

Sorry about the spelling, it has been a while since high school french.


I've visited Paris twice, and Toulouse once. I really enjoyed the food/beer/wine in Toulouse. We also got to visit the Cité de l'espace on the trip. We did a great day trip to Lourdes to see the Lady of Lourdes Basillica. You can't beat the view from the tower though, and the gardens of Versailles are a great walk.

[Michael Aivaliotis]

You mean you didn't go to Disneyland Paris? Ah, shame.

[Chris Davis]

You mean you didn't go to Disneyland Paris? Ah, shame.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[PJM_labview]

Just a side note, the correct name is Tour Eiffel (or Eiffel Tower for the English speakers) named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel.


PJM

[graastein]

Did any of you guys get "Paris Syndrome"?

BTW this is my home town:

Ålesund, Norway :thumbup:

[Yair]

An interesting thing about the square of the Arc de Triomphe (something which can be seen in the image posted by Michael) is that it has about 5 lanes and that they're all unmarked.
When traffic is light, this is not a big deal, but if you were to go in there at rush hour and make the mistake of getting into one of the inner lanes, you could be circling in there for hours trying to find your way out.

BTW, did you ever notice how a square is actually circular? Funny language, English.

[crelf]

Did any of you guys get "Paris Syndrome"?

"...the reality of unfriendly locals and scruffy streets..." - sooo many people warnged me about the arrogant Parisians, funnily enough, very few of them had actually been to Paris We found the locals to be fantastic - as long as you tried to communicate in French first, they were always happy to help out. Actually, I was in the Louvre doing an audio tour of French sculpture (highly recommened, by the way), and a lady approached me and said "is your aduio tour working?" - in English! I thought "how rude" - she's in a foreign country and just assumed that I spoke her language She could have, at least, learned how to ask if I knew English...

Anyway - in summary, I found Parisians to be just as friendly as anywhere else I've been, so don't fall for the stories about their poor attitudes. Sure, some people may have had bad experieces, but I've found in my world travels that your experience is usually far more dependant on your attitude than anyone else's...

[Chris Davis]

I found the locals to be friendly as well. The only problem I had on my trip to Toulouse was paying the cab fare the night I arrived. I either paid to much or to little, but the cabbie couldn't communicate the exact amount, so I think we finally got to the point of writing it on paper. That seemed to get the message across.
My trips outside of Paris, to the countryside (not Disneyland Paris!) were my favorite, since there were less tourists around, and you could emerse yourself in another culture.

[robijn]

Eiffel

Ouch, you Americans should know his name. He built the structure for the Statue of Liberty... :thumbup:

Joris


I like Google Earth a lot too. The fact that it's sometimes difficult to make out roads etc makes it even more interesting. Maybe I'll take flying lessons one day...

Joris

[crelf]

Ouch, you Americans should know his name. He built the structure for the Statue of Liberty...

:laugh: In the words of Sting: "I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien, I'm a legal alien in [Detroit]"

[Yair]

:laugh: In the words of Sting: "I'm an alien, I'm a legal alien, I'm a legal alien in [Detroit]"

In keeping with the "it's spelled LabVIEW" spirit, the last part should probably be "I'm an Australian in Detroit".
I know, I can be really intolerable sometimes.