Pangloss Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 Go here: http://maps.google.com/ Punch in your address. Zoom in real good. And then click the "Satellite" button in the upper-right corner. Sorry, Americans only right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ed84c Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 Great a map of america, just what ive always wanted hmmm I did a search for United Kingdom and a number of small ballons popped up allong the east side of kansas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 I can see Blike's head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangloss Posted April 5, 2005 Author Share Posted April 5, 2005 You're not that far off. I can make out my own foliage. A big live oak in the back yard and some palm trees in front. And it's pretty obvious you could zoom in a lot further if they weren't concerned about mouse-grabber scolling speed. There are better sat photo sites around the internet, though. What's really interesting about this one is the way it's integrated with the map and directions functions, and the mouse-grab scrolling deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan19_83 Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 ya, this is pretty cool. however now ye all know the U.S. government is definitly spying on ye!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellbender Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 I can see all the woods and small roads around my house! Very cool, but I am so remote, that the satellite won't zoom in very far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 Dang it! All of those maps things think I live in the house next door! A good satellite image site is http://terraserver.microsoft.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 World Wind is a lot more fun. http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecoli Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 Yeah...google got my house wrong too! Check out my house from terraserver... it's a topographical map from '94 http://www.geocities.com/ledflyd/myhouse.bmp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangloss Posted April 5, 2005 Author Share Posted April 5, 2005 Is the marker off slightly to the north? That's how it looks for my house, about 50 yards off to the north of where I actually live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 Same here too, I think. Except it's about 50 feet, not yards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Douglas Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 I can see Blike's head.Is he smoking a cigarette? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
folder Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 Heh, mine was off by about five miles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted April 5, 2005 Share Posted April 5, 2005 Is he smoking a cigarette?Cigar. No aspiring doctor would smoke cigarettes anymore. At least not where a satellite camera could catch him. It got my house dead on. I think my neighbor's kid's ball is stuck on my roof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecoli Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 Is the marker off slightly to the north? That's how it looks for my house, about 50 yards off to the north of where I actually live. no, it's two houses south Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Demosthenes- Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 World Wind is a lot more fun. http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/ Dang I don't have enough Ram for it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klanger Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 well we had fun last night looking up the inlaws in the states, great map Gonna do the mum thing now though, something that i found very disturbing about this site.... and yeah you probably all know already, but if you type in someones phone number including area code you can not only get a satalite pic of their property but full postal address and directions too. May sound kinda cool to some but as a mum I found the thought terrifying, I have a teenage daughter, and though I have told her never to give out our number on the net, she is a kid and kids do what kids do, there is a potential there for pedophiles to gain way more access to their victims than perhaps we would feel comfortable with. Presently we don't have white pages here in the UK, least none that I am aware of yet, but there were a few of my relatives state side that I entered their phone numbers for and recieved full directions to their homes plus names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klanger Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 ooh on a footnote to what I just wrote, I do believe that if your information is in full on that site that you can have it removed by going ex-directory/unlisted and that would stop sites such as the google map from locating via satelite and locating by number or address too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swansont Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 OK, try this: Type (copy & paste) in VP Cheney's "home address": 3450 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington DC Zoom in and center the circle (The US Naval Observatory) in the picture. The little pointer is a little off from the front gate. Now click on satellite. And: pan over to the White House (to the SE) and notice the lack of rooftop detail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted April 6, 2005 Share Posted April 6, 2005 As soon as I entered Cheney's address and asked for satellite, the FBI kicked in my door and is now busy searching my house for WMDs. I must have been on some kind of list. Gotta go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pangloss Posted April 6, 2005 Author Share Posted April 6, 2005 Yeah there was a story that made the rounds about that a few months ago, possibly around the time Google bought out Keyhole. Something about how the tops of certain buildings were greyed out for national security reasons, etc etc. I'm afraid I don't remember the details now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ZacharyC Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 Mapquest used to have the same option, and you could zoom in about twice as far. They removed it, I believe. On Google, and Terraserver-USA, etc you can zoom in on military installations, the details are intact. http://tidr.blogspot.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedAlert Posted April 10, 2005 Share Posted April 10, 2005 Hey! It works for Canada too. I live in Vancouver BC, and I see everything fine lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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