Satellite View of Home
 

Using Google's new Satellite map service, attach a picture of your home/surroundings.

Article about the newly released feature: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/interne....ap/index.html

Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/maps

In the search bar, you just enter as follows:

Street, City, State

Then you click the satellite link. And zoom in as far as possible. :)

Note: My picture shows light colored hills and ground, but right now the grounds and hills are green so this picture must've been taken in the summer or fall.

I think this is only available to U.S. and Canadian residents, sorry Canyarion and Bube.

The little red tab pinpoints the house

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heh, cool!

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I've been doing this for hours today.

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As have I.





You bastard.






Chica.

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Man, my neighborhood looks ugly from an aerial view. Labeled some spots.


Where my crappy job is located. City Hall is one of those buildings...couldn't tell you which.


One of the buildings of my college. I like this area.


And decided to include my old college just because it's in the shape of a GIANT BRAIN!!!

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Hooray! I don't know how to scale that, but it's a really long way to both campuses. But not as long as to UBC. Oh, let's scale anyways.

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I've been playing with this sense I read about it in Dyne's livejournal.

Fun stuff.

But it's extremely hard to find my house, because the area I live in is so rural.

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here is where i live...

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I think these pictures are a few years old... There are a few buildings near Wal*Mart that aren't there in the picture...


/me shrugs and walks away

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Type your adress in on the top. It goes right to it.

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ditto

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thats pretty neat.

Oh and Dyne my house is above the F and E in TRIFECTA

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No it doesn't.

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Well, I guiess thats what you get for living on a farm. :p

And omg Cam, your house is in the Middle of the word "Trifecta".


Creepy. :(






Well, no....not really.

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There's not even an available close-up satellite view of my house. Well half of my town has one but my half doesn't. Oh well.

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Found it!

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Behold






We're too good for a real satellite view.

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Yeah, it doesn't have every area in satellite view.

Anyway here is mine. My house is on the corner to the left of the cursor.

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Sean, can you do an image of your house in relation to the pikton(sp?) farm?

+rep pending

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It will be a pretty big picture, The Farm is closer to our school, you might want to show the location of the school too.

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I tried, but I honestly forgot where the farm is. With all the development and townhouses they've been putting up, it looks completely different than it did 6 months ago.


I made an image, circled a small area, but looking at it and thinking about it, I'm pretty sure I'm wrong.

You might want to get Dyne to show the location of our houses and the farm, I'm pretty sure he knows.


EDIT: For what its worth, this is what I did, and I now I'm wrong, bu I think its really close to the circled area, and the red thing at the top is obviously my house.

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I was going to do an image of my house at school and my parents' house but the image of mine was crappy. so here is where my parents live, nice huh?

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My house is about right here

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You know, PoCo is bigger than that right....in that picture, your saying PoCo is basically 7 streets and a traffic light.

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Hahahaha, that is definatley not Poco. It's a lot bigger.

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I didn't say "All of Poco'' I just said Poco. Parts of it. like if you say to someone "Eat pie" you don't expect them to eat all the pie.

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when you say Poco people think you mean the whole thing. At least normal people do.

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And your point being...

And I care because...


EAT PIE!

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You're so getting pushed in the ditch tomorrow, unless I go home in E.

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Actually, the remnants of the pig farm are directly east of that; the huge dug up lot beside it. *pokes* It used to take up a lot of the housing, too, but there's.. houses on it, yeah. People are living on dead whores! Yes!

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I didnt mean remnants, I mean overall, But I didnt want to circle all the development, But those houses there were part of the farm, as was the new commercial development, and the east corner of our school (I think). And all the new Houses across the street from the school too (which arnt in the picture, because the picture is from a while ago).

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Well, when you see pictures of the pigfarm in the news, you'll see the big dug up lot, not the housing. That's why I pointed out that it's east of what you were pointing at.

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The first one, the house I lived in when I was in the US (X one the roof, not the A).
Second one, where I live right now (rough estimate).
Third, where I live right now (exact adress).

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/me throws a hissy fit :killpika:




^^Bube, that was funny :p

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It may be available to me, but they don't have any sattelite view of my college city yet.

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:p You reckon the pictures are a bit out of date?

I have seen a map with the arial view of Melbourne at some tourist information centre. I spent about an hour just staring at it... quite fascinating :p

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dunno why they call it new, Yahoo has had this for almost 5 years now.
and these pictures are i'd almost say a year old too. all the tree's have leaves on them. that means at least 2004 summer. but im thinkin they might even be older then that.

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jeepnut was looking at his home town last night and said it was slightly outdated (1 and a half or so), judging by the buildings that have gone up recently

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Anyone who throws an Australian hissy fit will receive an American spanking.

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well, i guess it's a good thing that nobody is throwing an Australian hissy fit then, huh? :p