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Postby Mulder.DSM on Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:49 am

I wanted to let everyone know that I installed a webcam this weekend in my loft that shows the view of looking east from 6th and Grand. The image will update every 5 minutes and the clarity is pretty good except first thing in the morning when you get a full sun glare into it (and you can see how dirty the outside of my windows are. :)

http://www.livingdowntowndesmoines.com/downtown-web-cams/


I've also trying to track down any other webcams that are installed downtown and keep an updated list for the site,
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Re: Downtown Webcam

Postby Better Life dude on Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:58 am

Mulder.DSM wrote:I wanted to let everyone know that I installed a webcam this weekend in my loft that shows the view of looking east from 6th and Grand. The image will update every 5 minutes and the clarity is pretty good except first thing in the morning when you get a full sun glare into it (and you can see how dirty the outside of my windows are. :)

http://www.livingdowntowndesmoines.com/downtown-web-cams/


I've also trying to track down any other webcams that are installed downtown and keep an updated list for the site,

There's two different views here: One looking west from City Hall and the other that we've been using looking from the Armory to the Center street bridge.
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Re: Downtown Webcam

Postby hawk61401 on Tue Jul 21, 2009 11:40 am

We definitely need more webcams downtown and thank you for this one.

Maybe I got a hold of some bad weed, or my monitor is playing tricks on me ... something doesn't look right to me. :o

The view is looking east from 6th and Grand. The gold dome is in the distance but the Insurance Exchange Building is on the right side of the picture. It should be on the left?
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Re: Downtown Webcam

Postby Better Life dude on Tue Jul 21, 2009 1:27 pm

hawk61401 wrote:We definitely need more webcams downtown and thank you for this one.

Maybe I got a hold of some bad weed, or my monitor is playing tricks on me ... something doesn't look right to me. :o

The view is looking east from 6th and Grand. The gold dome is in the distance but the Insurance Exchange Building is on the right side of the picture. It should be on the left?

You can eliminate your weed as the culprit because I'm not smoking it right now and I'm seeing the same thing. :P The image is flipped. What should be on the left looking east is pictured on the right of the image. Very strange indeed. Once again: the weed is not the problem here.
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Re: Downtown Webcam

Postby Mulder.DSM on Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:45 pm

You guys are funny! I will see if I can find a setting to flip the image around. :lol:
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Re: Downtown Webcam

Postby hawk61401 on Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:00 pm

aaaaaah, that's better. Now, if you could just swing the cam a little bit to the right of the top of the parking ramp. I wanna make sure my '65 Chevy still has all 4 tires.
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Re: Downtown Webcam

Postby Mulder.DSM on Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:06 pm

hawk61401 wrote:aaaaaah, that's better. Now, if you could just swing the cam a little bit to the right of the top of the parking ramp. I wanna make sure my '65 Chevy still has all 4 tires.


You make me laugh!
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Re: Downtown Webcam

Postby hawk61401 on Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:55 pm

Better Life dude wrote:
You can eliminate your weed as the culprit because I'm not smoking it right now and I'm seeing the same thing. :P The image is flipped. What should be on the left looking east is pictured on the right of the image. Very strange indeed. Once again: the weed is not the problem here.


Thank you Mulder, glad to put a smile on your face. Bld, cracks me up. Notice he said, "I'm not smoking it right now" :wink:
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