Google has a new (maybe?) mapping feature that has a very powerful search and the ability to flip from maps over to actual satellite images. Being that I'm sending Crystal some parts I decided to try it out on her address. And, it seems, based on pics she's posted of her cars in the yard, that this is in fact her house... am I right, Crystal?
yep... don't you love how MA roads are set up?
nice.. i didn't know google did this.. so I decided to check out if it has my place and wouldn't you know it? it does!
(http://www.baxo.ca/misc/satellite.jpg)
Nevermind...
Dude that's not the White House. That's the Capitol Building. :disappoin
Here's me:
"We're sorry but we don't have imagery at this zoom level for this location"
Translation:
"You live in the sticks and it's not worth anyone's time to take satellite pictures of your py house."
:rollin: I wonder how my secret service agents are searching his computer right now wondering why he needs a airial view of 1600 Pennsie ave.. :rollin:
Someone posted this on a local cruise board. I found my parents farm too. :D
See that lake? No one ever uses that lake. There are two private access roads, one owned by us, and the other by our neighbours, the Archibalds, who have a cabin out there. But I've yet to see anyone out there when we were. Anyway, that's the farm. You can see the lawn (lawns in NS are massive, so it goes from the house all the way down the hill to the barn. I guess dad enjoys spending all day mowing. Every time it gets a little bigger) and there are five blueberry fields in there. :)
Well, that's Brock Island. My own personal Avalon. I used to camp on that island all the time, and I believe I was the first to do it. Even had a wild hippie weekend party out there with about 15 people. (yes, we cleaned up. hippie, remember) goooood times.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/oldraven/home2.jpg)
:laughing: Mainlanders :shakehead That's not a lake! that's a pond - a lake is what ya got in ya rubber boot when yer foot gets wet...and farmers don't have lawns, they have hay fields :crazy:
You know our geography is pretty much the same, right. (well, the highlands, anyway. And your mountains stand a bit taller) You should see what they call a lake out here. :disappoin They really are ponds. Then there's the occasional lake up north that's the size of PEI. But yeah, that's no monsterous lake, but when you're the only guy there, it's plenty big. :D
Dad's lawn/yard is starting to look like a golf course.
So next year, we should have Catjam in Antigonish NS. Then we can all go campin. :giggle:
Why? you got a gravel pit (http://"http://www.milebymile.com/main/article_82.html") around there too? :sorry: I'm in a silly mood today. It must be Friday :headbang:
EDIT: in case you didn't get the gravel pit thing
eh, it appears to be the same images from http://terraserver.microsoft.com/ , except you can't zoom in as far as on terraserver. The images must be around 4 years old now...and I thought it was exciting when they updated after ~2 years. Now they don't seem to care.
Minus the inability to get right up to the house, I like google's better since it pans like their original map search
anyone know what company did the initial satellite images?
Mostly trees around here..
Amateurs! 20 minutes, and 2 seemingly insignificant pieces of info (city/state which produces zip code, and last name) later...
If you want the link Crystal, just shoot me a pm and i'll hook ya up! It's actually got some more cool features you might get a kick out of!
And me (my apartment building). I'm at approximately the red dot.
Google doesn't have available a zoom that close for my neighborhood.. although I did get a shot of my house from when Terraserver was still a free trial, a few years back. It's buried around here somewhere on the second hard drive.
i used to have keyhole. mapquest used to do the same thing but they took the feature off.
that's a pretty new picture... MADNESS!
Send the link :D
nirvanagod.. whatever you used to get that.. hook me up..
Well i could tell you, but then i'd have to kill you!!! :evilgrin:
Crystal... you got mail!
haha that sounds like a fair enough trade. it's a deal!
At least you can die happy, right?
My house, with the T-Bird and my father's Explorer in the driveway. Oldraven, I noticed that most of Nova Scotia is low-res, but surprisingly, a lot of it is high resolution (considering our low position on the list of important places). Even Gerogefield, where my cottage is, is high res - well, at least half of it, anyway. It looks like the low/high res cutoff is about two miles from my cottage (and of course, the cottage is on the low-res side)
I was originally going to do yours, Carmen, but I opted not to because doing it to Crystal makes it look more like I'm an intarweb geek trying to score with message board girls by posting pics of thier houses.
Well, as a hint, it's a matter of finding out if a specific county does photographic surveys for public/private property records.
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