Satellite Images

[FraserRonald]

Hey All

I'm running a d20 Modern campaign and the team is supposed to be entering into a village in the desert. I suck as an artist and I haven't found a program that makes maps that look realistic. Since they are supposed to be looking at a satellite image, I was wondering if anyone knew of places to actually find satellite images? I have a crappy dialup modem and so each time I think I've found a site that can help me out, it takes me quite some time to judge its usefulness. I figured the crew here might be able to help.

Thanks all.

 

[jezter6]

Try Terraserver.

http://terraserver.microsoft.com

Satellite images from the early 90's, and is relatively fast for modem users.

 

[FraserRonald]

Thanks for the tip! It is a really quick load. It's too bad it only has stuff from the states, but I figure a desert is a desert is a desert, at least for the purposes of a game.

Thanks for your help!

 

[FraserRonald]

For anyone else interested, I found a really cool site through this link which I ran across in the other "maps" thread. Satellite images from various wars and crises. Smooth.