Found an interesting use for Google Earth besides looking up satellite
photos of your house and office. Use it to get track maps. Just plug these
basic coordinates into the search field. Interesting to see which parts of
the country have higher detail images and which are quite fuzzy. Since
Google "tries" to 3D the image you can not only rotate and zoom the image
but fly in from different perspectives which gives a bit better view of
some corners and even some elevation (like Willow Springs). Interesting.
http://earth.google.com/
Some tracks that I have looked up.
Our local Metro Tracks
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Phoenix International Raceway
33 d 22 '29"N, 112 d 18' 39"W
Arizona Motorsports Park
33 d 30 '57"N, 112 d 23' 24"W
Phoenix "K" Raceway (Karting)
33 d 41 '25"N, 112 d 9' 26"W
Firebird International Raceway
33 d 16 '12"N, 111 d 57' 53"W
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Willow Springs
34 d 52 '21"N, 118 d 15' 45"W
Indy
39 d 47 '42"N, 86 d 14' 1"W
Laguna Seca (horrible image)
36 d 35 '4"N, 121 d 45' 16"W
Infineon Raceway
38 d 9 '44"N, 122 d 27' 25"W
Buttonwillow
35 d 29 '23"N, 119 d 32' 41"W
Thunderhill
39 d 32 '25"N, 122 d 19' 54"W
Mid-Ohio
40 d 41 '22"N, 82 d 38' 13"W
Road Atlanta
34 d 8 '40"N, 83 d 48' 58"W
Portland
45 d 35 '49"N, 122 d 41' 46"W
California Speedway
34 d 5 '19"N, 117 d 30' 0"W
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