I am using google earth along with NOAA charts of the South Florida
ICW to look for potential storm shelter spots. The charts have
little depth information on the small side channels of the ICW. It is
easy to see the coloration of the bottom in the brown ICW soup on the
google earth images. Is there a way to find the date and time of the
image captures in order to calculate the state of the tide to figure
high tide depths for access to shelter spots? TIA for responses, Larry

"Larryr" wrote in message
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I am using google earth along with NOAA charts of the South Florida
ICW to look for potential storm shelter spots. The charts have
little depth information on the small side channels of the ICW. It is
easy to see the coloration of the bottom in the brown ICW soup on the
google earth images. Is there a way to find the date and time of the
image captures in order to calculate the state of the tide to figure
high tide depths for access to shelter spots? TIA for responses, Larry

no

"Larryr" wrote
Is there a way to find the date and time of the
image captures

Depending on the image, you may be able to find the date by turning on "DG
Coverage" in your layers panel under "more."

On Aug 11, 10:34*am, Larryr wrote:
I am using google earth along with NOAA charts of the South Florida
ICW *to look for potential storm shelter spots. *The charts have
little depth information on the small side channels of the ICW. *It is
easy to see the coloration of the bottom in the brown ICW soup on the
google earth images. *Is there a way to find the date and time of the
image captures in order to calculate the state of the tide to figure
high tide depths for access to shelter spots? *TIA for responses, Larry

If you are using a recent version of Google Earth it now tells you
automatically. I'm usning teh following version:

Google Earth: 4.3.7284.3916 (beta)
Build Date: Jul 8 2008
Build Time: 19:04:33
Renderer: OpenGL
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 3)

Along the bottom of my Google Earth screen I have three pieces of
information. On the left is Lat & Long, in the center is the
elevation of the point on the map my cursor is at, on the right is Eye
Alt. If i am zoomed in sufficently and there is high resolution
imaging on screen a forth piece of info appears 3/4 of the way over to
the right and that is the date of the image my cursor is resting
over. If your version doesn't display this, get the newest version.
I think this feature was just added recently. I don't rember noticing
it before my last update.

On Aug 16, 2:23 pm, "Ken Heaton, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia"
wrote:
On Aug 11, 10:34 am, Larryr wrote:

I am using google earth along with NOAA charts of the South Florida
ICW to look for potential storm shelter spots. The charts have
little depth information on the small side channels of the ICW. It is
easy to see the coloration of the bottom in the brown ICW soup on the
google earth images. Is there a way to find the date and time of the
image captures in order to calculate the state of the tide to figure
high tide depths for access to shelter spots? TIA for responses, Larry

If you are using a recent version of Google Earth it now tells you
automatically. I'm usning teh following version:

Google Earth: 4.3.7284.3916 (beta)
Build Date: Jul 8 2008
Build Time: 19:04:33
Renderer: OpenGL
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP (Service Pack 3)

Along the bottom of my Google Earth screen I have three pieces of
information. On the left is Lat & Long, in the center is the
elevation of the point on the map my cursor is at, on the right is Eye
Alt. If i am zoomed in sufficently and there is high resolution
imaging on screen a forth piece of info appears 3/4 of the way over to
the right and that is the date of the image my cursor is resting
over. If your version doesn't display this, get the newest version.
I think this feature was just added recently. I don't rember noticing
it before my last update.

I have found the date of image but not the time. With a bit of
improvement in resolution I might just be able to read the level marks
at the draw bridges. In the end, I went dinghying with a long pole to
find depths. My first choice shelter is marginally deep enuf at the
top of a tide. If I had gone, I would have arrived at low tide and
walked and bouyed the path to take four and a half feet plus a
cruising load fudge factor.... Fay was fun in an open to the south
anchorage at the north end of Lake Worth- surprisingly unpredictable.
I'll be out of the fetch next time, I hope.