FIND YOUR HOUSE

[Twitch]

Google Earth is a fun little free program you can download and look at geography all over the planet. But what's the 1st thing you do? You look for your house from space-

Can you find yours?

 

[Nashoba]

My house doesn't show up on a lot of sattelite maps because the ones that they have are outdated. Our house is only about a year and a half old so if you look at the sattelite images all you see is the road and an empty lot. It's a bit dissapointing.

 

[jamespowers]

Google Earth is a fun little free program you can download and look at geography all over the planet. But what's the 1st thing you do? You look for your house from space-

Can you find yours?

Is that your pool or the neighbor's?
Those satellite images are from quite a while ago. It still shows my cars in front of my old house and I haven't lived there in a year or two. :eusa_doh: [huh]

Regards,

J

 

[ohairas]

Try this one Nashoba! I downloaded it and I can see our car and truck in the driveway! I think it said 2007 pics....
Nikki

 

[Samsa]

You can also go here to do the same thing.

This is mine:

 

[TM]

Another great site for viewing your house is Zillow: http://www.zillow.com/

It's primarily a real estate site with rather silly "zestimates" of the value of houses. But once you get to the general overview of your house and click on more information, you get to an even closer view, often with views from the north, south, east & west.

Tony

 

[jamespowers]

You can also go here to do the same thing.

This is mine:

Wow! Those images are even older 2004. :eusa_doh:

 

[panamag8or]

You can't see mine because of trees.

I do love Google Earth, though. I can play with it for hours. I don't know if they have updated the image, but you can see both Air force One planes on the tarmac at andrews AFB, and several planes in various takeoff altitudes at the Atlanta airport.

 

[Diamondback]

My house doesn't show up on a lot of sattelite maps because the ones that they have are outdated. Our house is only about a year and a half old so if you look at the sattelite images all you see is the road and an empty lot. It's a bit dissapointing.

Actually, it also gives you a little extra security--dirtballs can use things like this to "remotely case" people's places, which is why I've kinda tried to make my property look semi-abandoned from aerial/satellite view.

Of course, I've established my "paranoid" credentials already, right?lol

 

[LizzieMaine]

The most recent photo they have of my neighborhood was taken in 1996 -- amazing how much neater the junkyard next door was kept back then. Someone's falling down on the job!

 

[Samsa]

Actually, it also gives you a little extra security--dirtballs can use things like this to "remotely case" people's places, which is why I've kinda tried to make my property look semi-abandoned from aerial/satellite view.

Of course, I've established my "paranoid" credentials already, right?lol

I always wondered, if this kind of technology is available to the public free of charge, what kind of technology does the government have for purposes of spying?

 

[MrNewportCustom]

I have a shortcut to Google Earth on my desktop. I look for things fairly often: the Pyramids, the Eifel Tower, the Great Wall of China, Stonehenge, Abu Dhabi. I even found Jay Leno's garage.

I just went to Zillow, and saw my big green Chrysler. That thing's like the Great Wall!

I just remembered that, on Saturday, a dark Ford with no plates drove by my house with a short tower on the roof holding a red aluminium dome on top that had four dark holes in it (one on each side, one each front and back.) I guessed they were either triangulating for stolen cable signals, or Google or some-such was shooting their street views in my neighborhood. I hope it's the latter. If it is, I'm certain I'll be in the pictures, as I was in the street getting ready to get into my car, and looking straight at the car as it drove by. lol


Lee
______________________

No! I'm not stealing cable!! lol

 

[Twitch]

Yeah Nashoba a friend in Nevada's tract has only 4 houses on the block in satellite pix so they put it about 3 years old.

I know my area is no more than 5 years old since that's when I replaced the car port roof with a different color shingle. They recently put newer pics of our area. Different cars on street. The Terra Server is the older 2004 pic.

And that neighbor's stagnant pool was full of allgae! Last year I turned the slob in to health dept. for same reason and they acted super fast to make him drain it.

 

[Nashoba]

Try this one Nashoba! I downloaded it and I can see our car and truck in the driveway! I think it said 2007 pics....
Nikki

Which one the Google? The google one shows a dirt lot

Actually, it also gives you a little extra security--dirtballs can use things like this to "remotely case" people's places, which is why I've kinda tried to make my property look semi-abandoned from aerial/satellite view.

Of course, I've established my "paranoid" credentials already, right?lol

If mine was there, you wouldn't miss it. Our development is too new to be able to 'look' semi-abandoned. Especially if I don't want notices from the city and the HOA about maintaining my property. I get those already because I hate mowing the lawn (it just isn't my chore, it's my husbands! and it's my way of protesting My house is the landmark for the neighborhood too, my husband put a 25 ft Flagpole in front of our house. People give directions based on it....3 houses past the white and blue house with the flag pole....
My Paranoia is manifested in the dog. He scares the dickens out of anything that steps wrong onto his precious land.

I always wondered, if this kind of technology is available to the public free of charge, what kind of technology does the government have for purposes of spying?

You REALLY don't want the answer to that lol

Twitch: I'm hoping that one day I'll be able to look down and see my house, but I'm not holding my breath.

I tried to look up where my husband is but it really only showed up as a big patch of brown. But from what he tells me it pretty much looks that way from the ground too [huh]

 

[RedPop4]

TerraServer photos are older.
I was outside when the Google images were shot, as I can see someone at the foot of the driveway. It's post-Katrina as the tree in my backyard is gone; and it's after March 1, 2006. I know this because my buddy who lived in Lakeview, had 7¬? feet of water in his house, was able to move two doors down from me beginning on that date. At least one of his cars is visible in the Google images shot.

Upon finding it on Google Maps, I see both of his vehicles. I see that my old fence, also damaged in the storm, is still leaning in on my driveway, and the pecan tree is definitely gone.

 

[Fletch]

1229 Harding Avenue, Ames, Iowa

1951. Residential building is starting north of 13th Street, the major east-west route, which was the edge of town when our house went up in 1937 and remained so until after WWII.
Streets in this part of town are still cinder or gravel, including 13th west of Grand Avenue, the major north-south route, which is also US 69.

2007. What was new build is now old growth, with huge trees. 13th and Grand have been 4 lane concrete for decades, and all streets for miles in any direction are paved.
Ames now has over twice the population it had in 1951 and has expanded northward several miles, almost to the tiny municipality of Gilbert.

Due to greatly increased traffic at 13th and Grand, our house is now endangered. Read more here.

 

[Atomic Glee]

That was easy.

 

[Twitch]

Fletch that 1951 aerial shot is great! There's probably more of those than we know exist out there somewhere.

I think most all of the L.A. area was shot on Sunday since known business are lacking cars in the lot and freeways have few cars.

 

[pretty faythe]

You can also go here to do the same thing.

This is mine:

using this, mine doesn't exist yet!

 

[dhermann1]

Google Earth is more than just a "little" program. It can use a lot of memory, but oh man, what a program! Play with it for a while and see just how much there is to it. Click anywhere and all sorts of information pops up. You can add roads, boundaries, landmarks, etc. etc. Unfortunately, some areas have high resolution pix, where you can actually see each tree, car or patio chair, and some areas have lower resolution, which can be disappointing. Try turning on the 3D buidlings, and then tilt the horizon. It's SOOO cool!