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Here's an even faster/easier/creepier version of Google Street View/satellite view. (Original Post) woo me with science Jun 2012 OP
Thanks for the link......it's a time-saver. TheDebbieDee Jun 2012 #1
I thought it was going to be a joke.. pipoman Jun 2012 #2
Pretty cool - especially when you get to see other streets with your addresses in other cities. Drunken Irishman Jun 2012 #3
I am shocked they even got it nadinbrzezinski Jun 2012 #4
I typed in my address and it shows the house across the street. hobbit709 Jun 2012 #20
Google maps got NOTHING right in our town. dixiegrrrrl Jun 2012 #28
That's really fun! Suich Jun 2012 #5
looks like the exact same pics as Google Maps. Manifestor_of_Light Jun 2012 #6
It has google all over it. jp11 Jun 2012 #7
Neat davepc Jun 2012 #8
It worked riverbendviewgal Jun 2012 #9
thanks for the link. I like it! Liberal_in_LA Jun 2012 #10
not only that, it shows your property value, last sale, campaign contributions & that's just HiPointDem Jun 2012 #11
Where do you see that? calimary Jun 2012 #13
i typed my address into google & got pages of hits: the first page contained all that information. HiPointDem Jun 2012 #15
Aha. Got it. Thanks! calimary Jun 2012 #16
Did the same to me. hobbit709 Jun 2012 #21
It has great detail on my business quaker bill Jun 2012 #17
Democrats fully on board with the new surveillance state. okey. HiPointDem Jun 2012 #12
As I slowly typed- Took me first to New York, then Tokyo, then Gloucester, then Houston, then mine ErikJ Jun 2012 #14
It's at least three months old. Ilsa Jun 2012 #18
Mine is not correct. After a couple of false starts, it got the street, but not the house. Honeycombe8 Jun 2012 #19
Which is why I've come around to not minding living next to a "sensitive" area TalkingDog Jun 2012 #22
It's a picture from Google Maps, and it's over a year old. Archae Jun 2012 #23
pretty crappy website..are they just hijacking google data? snooper2 Jun 2012 #24
It took me to teh wrong side pscot Jun 2012 #25
Cool web site!! Thanks! Logical Jun 2012 #26
The images are a little stale. For such detail, I would expect more current views. HopeHoops Jun 2012 #27
 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
4. I am shocked they even got it
Sun Jun 10, 2012, 01:00 AM
Jun 2012

no, serious. I got some really funny stories of wrong directions given by Google maps

hobbit709

(41,694 posts)
20. I typed in my address and it shows the house across the street.
Sun Jun 10, 2012, 07:58 AM
Jun 2012

Doesn't show mine and the picture is at least two years old because my neighbor cut down that dead tree two years ago.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
28. Google maps got NOTHING right in our town.
Sun Jun 10, 2012, 06:50 PM
Jun 2012

Miles off of reality.
we love it!
My address shows up 1/4 mile from the house.
they even got the town square famous courthouse mis-located.

jp11

(2,104 posts)
7. It has google all over it.
Sun Jun 10, 2012, 01:29 AM
Jun 2012

From the satellite view to the map images, literally 'google maps' on several screen/views.

 

HiPointDem

(20,729 posts)
11. not only that, it shows your property value, last sale, campaign contributions & that's just
Sun Jun 10, 2012, 02:46 AM
Jun 2012

the first page of hits.

that's the last time i'm donating to anything unless it's anonymous.

calimary

(81,220 posts)
13. Where do you see that?
Sun Jun 10, 2012, 03:29 AM
Jun 2012

Funny enough - I went there and typed in my address, and it showed me the house across the street.

 

HiPointDem

(20,729 posts)
15. i typed my address into google & got pages of hits: the first page contained all that information.
Sun Jun 10, 2012, 03:47 AM
Jun 2012

sorry, didn't mean that site in particular.

quaker bill

(8,224 posts)
17. It has great detail on my business
Sun Jun 10, 2012, 07:44 AM
Jun 2012

all of it wrong. Somehow or another, somewhere, someone made an assumption that I am a photographer. I have been sent several solicitations to "correct my listing" for a fee. I don't play like that. So now one can get a pagefull of hits on my photo studio, which does not exist.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
19. Mine is not correct. After a couple of false starts, it got the street, but not the house.
Sun Jun 10, 2012, 07:57 AM
Jun 2012

Google maps is more accurate. That takes you to the front of my house. Complete with my car out front.

TalkingDog

(9,001 posts)
22. Which is why I've come around to not minding living next to a "sensitive" area
Sun Jun 10, 2012, 08:16 AM
Jun 2012

We live down the road from some sensitive infrastructure. Seems that even the census takers couldn't locate our house on GPS.

Bad part.... emergency services will occasionally get turned around and end up out our way when they should be headed in the opposite direction.

 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
24. pretty crappy website..are they just hijacking google data?
Sun Jun 10, 2012, 09:45 AM
Jun 2012

Got a bad picture from 2007. My little evergreen is there in the pic, only about 10" tall LOL..

Now's it's 10' tall


 

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)
27. The images are a little stale. For such detail, I would expect more current views.
Sun Jun 10, 2012, 12:43 PM
Jun 2012

I checked a few places (including my own house) and while they ARE accurate as of a point in time, they aren't even close to current. It's weird that they had such high resolution from eight years ago (judging by my own house). I've never seen the site before but it is a shitload faster than any other of that nature that I've used. Hopefully their images will catch up eventually. It has excellent resolution. I tend to use maps.yahoo.com and it's generally a little fuzzy but it really helps when trying to locate somewhere I have to go. This one is better (and yahoo maps are only slightly more current).

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