Google's New Map Feature: Sattellite

[Solario]

Google's New Map Feature (http://maps.google.com/) then press Sattellite up in the right hand corner.

This thing is just too cool for words. It's almost every paranoid's dream come true!


... Man I wish they'd include Europe soon. I want to see my house from there!

[Masked Revenger]

Wow, trippy.

Chris

[Solario]

Now I feel like an idiot for misspelling Satellite... twice. I'm playing the Foreigner Card.

[Tsarmina]

I've used something like that before. Rather cool.


*shakes fist* You forieniers and youre bad speling!!

[Blue Bolt]

Unbelieveable! :jawdrop:

[Graphite]

Ah. Potsdam, NY. We really are in the middle of no where.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/Graphite/Potsdam.jpg

[Solario]

This is the closest I could get, since this is primarily a US thing.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/Solario/Ilivesomewherearoundhere.jpg

[Tsarmina]

Hmm, this isn't as good as the other one I used. With the other one, I could actually see the road, my roof and the trees in the front yard. Dunno what the site was though. *shrug*

[Tarberetta]

I wonder how old those photos are. The closest imagry I can get of my workplace dosen't show the new additions nor do they show the apt. complex I live in (yes I live one street over from work)

Anyway..the add-ons were built in like 2002, and the apts in late 2002. So it makes me wonder

[Blue Bolt]

http://img204.echo.cx/img204/1720/untitled6fl1.jpg
:D

[Princess Bree]

They started clearing the land for my house two years ago. This has a wooded lot were my house is now. :rolleyes:

[MikeKAY]

Yep, Google Sattelite is way cool. I have been playing with it for two weeks now. :D

For you Euro people though Keyhole (http://www.keyhole.com/) is the greatest by far!

[Xielos]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v83/Xielos/staelitehouse.jpg

Thats just plain creepy.....

[Solario]

Yep, Google Sattelite is way cool. I have been playing with it for two weeks now. :D

For you Euro people though Keyhole (http://www.keyhole.com/) is the greatest by far!

Keyhole is pretty good, unafortunately since my country is relatively small it's no better in that department, than Google's. Although Keyhole seems a whole lot better.

[Naked Dwarf]

*shakes fist* You forieniers and youre bad speling!!

HAHAHA I just hope and wish this wasn't intentional, but knowing Hollis, she's to sharp to make a mistake like that :)

ND

[Solario]

Unafortunately that is a joke, also considering her "creative" use of "Spelling".

"Hello I am Nigerian Royalty.

Please forget the fact, that I can't spell Nigerian... or Royalty."

[Cold Quake]

Mi casa!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v489/mmx/805f5074.bmp

[Solario]

Awww Ripoff, The White House is blurred out in Keyhole! (I can understand why, but I still wish it wasn't.)

[8 Ball]

Wow...that is just trippy, and makes me just a *little* paranoid :D.

[sheld0n]

This is as close as i could get.
This is really pretty neat stuff! :)

http://img109.echo.cx/img109/2420/house5jk.th.jpg (http://img109.echo.cx/my.php?image=house5jk.jpg)

[8 Ball]

Keyhole is pretty good, unafortunately since my country is relatively small it's no better in that department, than Google's. Although Keyhole seems a whole lot better.


Just as a side note for you trivia types, was reading the CNN article on this here (http://edition.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/04/05/google.maps.ap/index.html) And it turns out Google actually owns the keyhole service...T'is a conspiracy I tells ya :P

[Randomus]

One guy on LiveJournal found Area 51 on that thing. Good times.

[Randomus]

The government made me double-post.

[Stalking Shadow]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v303/TheLIVR/BigBrother.jpg

[Tsarmina]

Unafortunately that is a joke, also considering her "creative" use of "Spelling".

"Hello I am Nigerian Royalty.

Please forget the fact, that I can't spell Nigerian... or Royalty."
Didn't notice I used youre instead of your. You FAILED!!!






:D *runs off to see if she can find the building she works in on the map thingy*

[Tsarmina]

Okies... I have a pict of the building I work in. X marks my location in said building. A nice view of the field and the highway beyond. :rolleyes:
And there is a pict of where my house is... except it seems I live just inside the border of Blurry-land. Humph. Well, at least it's sunny out!

[Malibu Sally]

Here is where we are staying right now.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v477/MalibuSally/Ourplace.jpg

[MikeKAY]

That is officially a AWESOME place to live Sally!

[Tarkenchi]

Will you let me live at your house sally? :D :P

[Malibu Sally]

That is officially a AWESOME place to live Sally!

Trust me Mike, it's not. As soon as the lease is up, we are out of there. The traffic is horrible. The drawbridge to the mainland breaks down all the time. Condo developers are circling like vultures over the homeowners; driving the value of the lots so high that people have to sell because they can no longer afford the property taxes.

We only moved into the house because we knew the owner and he gave us a deal on rent. Once we move, He will probably sell to the developer that just purchased half the homes on our side of the street and the next street over. The house next door was purchased in 1976 for 31k. It was sold in December for 1.7M! Most of the selling price was for the lot, not the house. The house would probably only fetch around 60-70k anywhere else, but island property is the hot buy right now.

It IS a great place to spend a week; but living there is an ordeal to say the least.

[Tsarmina]

It's a terrible thing when only the well-off can afford to live in such a area. (traffic headaches aside)

So, when ya gonna throw a Pcity party at your place?? :D

[Kinetix]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/Badjoke/Screenshots/tacobell.bmp

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/Badjoke/Screenshots/party.bmp

[WingedAvenger]

Based on the amount of construction (or lack thereof) I've seen in the satellite imagery, I'd guess the photos are roughly 4-5 years old.

BTW, here's me:
http://home.austin.rr.com/morix/sathouse.jpg

EDIT: Activity Time: Here's one of my favorite intersections in the US. Can you guess which one this is?
http://home.austin.rr.com/morix/lasvegas.jpg

[Griimace]

I can't get any closer than the 3rd highest zoom on anyplace I know. Hmm.

[The Widowed]

EDIT: Activity Time: Here's one of my favorite intersections in the US. Can you guess which one this is?
http://home.austin.rr.com/morix/lasvegas.jpg
The Great Big Austin Texas Asphalt Junction with Really Tall Buildings Deep in the Heart of Austin, Texas? :D

[WingedAvenger]

Negatory, Wid. Man, and I thought the building in the lower-left corner would be a sure giveaway too...

[Tarkenchi]

Negatory, Wid. Man, and I thought the building in the lower-left corner would be a sure giveaway too...


Ahh, yes, That is on the Las vegas strip, or Las vegas bullvd. Just N of the Sphinx and big pyramid :chuckle:

[Masked Revenger]

Ahh, yes, That is on the Las vegas strip, or Las vegas bullvd. Just N of the Sphinx and big pyramid :chuckle:

It sure is, because that's Excalibur in the lower left.

Chris

[Blur]

Wow, crazy. O_o

[WingedAvenger]

You got it. Wow, I can't believe a 12-year-old was able to identify an area of the Las Vegas strip before any adults. :o

[Tsarmina]

... never been there. No real interest either. *shrug*

[The Widowed]

Tarkie had help from his Dad. :D

[Masked Revenger]

I go to Vegas every year for the Ren Faire that's there. It's huge, and a ton of fun! Plus, it's the only city in the world where we can walk into a supermarket in our faire garb, and no one even bats an eye. ;)

I would also like to point out that Tark posted at like 2 am my time. I was sleeping.

Chris

[Tarkenchi]

Tarkie had help from his Dad. :D


Nope, Was using keyhole looking at places to do in vegas since im going monday, saw that and popped in... and if you are in PST time, yeah, i posted at about 2:00 am :D

[Tsarmina]

*perks up* A Ren Faire? Shopping in my bodice?? Wooo!

[Masked Revenger]

*perks up* A Ren Faire? Shopping in my bodice?? Wooo!

Women shopping in a bodice is the best part of ren faires. :)

Yeah, it's a great faire (http://www.lvrenfair.com/). I'm there with my guild, so if you happen to stop by, look me up. :)

Chris