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pbsmooth

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this is the view from a top floor balcony of a terraced house in London. you can see Battersea Power Station, Shard and London Eye in the distance.

anyone work it out? just from a YouTube video I was watching and curious.

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this is the view from a top floor balcony of a terraced house in London. you can see Battersea Power Station, Shard and London Eye in the distance.

anyone work it out? just from a YouTube video I was watching and curious.

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I'm feeling a bit uncomfortable about this. I'm sure it's all innocent, but could you post up the video please (or send it to me privately).
 
also, Crispy - how did you do that? google maps 3d view or something?
Google Earth Pro, the standalone app. You can draw arbitrary straight lines (or rather, geodesics). So what I did was look at the photo and find some buildings that are vertically aligned, but are well-separated on a map. I started with the Walkie-Talkie tower and Battersea Power Station. The NW corner of the tower is exactly framed by the Northern chimneys.

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THen I went to Google Earth and started a line at the NW corner of the tower

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and put the other end in Richmond somewhere so that it passed exactly between the two Northern chimneys of BPS.

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Then I just scrolled along the line with the camera facing the right way until I found the middle-ground buildings (the blocks of flats on the right and the mansard roof in the centre). And then I could look around the line for the specific roofs/windows in the foreground. I could have done another line using other landmarks and searched where they intersect, but one was enough in this case.

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Google Earth Pro, the standalone app. You can draw arbitrary straight lines (or rather, geodesics). So what I did was look at the photo and find some buildings that are vertically aligned, but are well-separated on a map. I started with the Walkie-Talkie tower and Battersea Power Station. The NW corner of the tower is exactly framed by the Northern chimneys.

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THen I went to Google Earth and started a line at the NW corner of the tower

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and put the other end in Richmond somewhere so that it passed exactly between the two Northern chimneys of BPS.

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Then I just scrolled along the line with the camera facing the right way until I found the middle-ground buildings (the blocks of flats on the right and the mansard roof in the centre). And then I could look around the line for the specific roofs/windows in the foreground. I could have done another line using other landmarks and searched where they intersect, but one was enough in this case.

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Please promise me you'll put yourself forward for the role of head detective in the next series of 'Hunted'. The contestants won't know what's hit 'em.
 
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