Wow, check out Google's new satellite photo feature (free). I see my house!

[Worst Username Ever]

http://maps.google.com/

Go to the upper right corner and click the "Satellite" option. I have a close-up of my house up right now. Related article here:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/04/05/google.maps.ap/index.html

[hfojvt]

1. my yard really looks like crap

apparently from the air, it looks brown. Maybe it is the season.

[MidwestTransplant]

2. That's awesome. Thanks!

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Found mine too! Thanks.

[prairierose]

4. Very kewl.....

I found my house. Wonder about when the pics were taken. I couldn't find a date.

[Worst Username Ever]

5. Well, here is what I know from mine.

My neighborhood is green, so it is not the late fall, winter, or early spring months. Also, the neighborhood pool is clearly empty, so it is not summer. So I would say either late spring or early fall. Also, the parking lot at my work is empty, so it was probably the weekend :)

I'd say they are last year's photos....

[purr]

6. wow...

but they have my address listed on the wrong side of the road.. pretty nifty tho :)

[LSdemocrat]

7. This is way too addictive

[DS1]

8. Here's my place

Down the map less than a block from the school complex

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=01702&ll=42.296977,-71.437526&spn=0.007124,0.010439&t=k&hl=en

[undergroundpanther]

9. heh

where I live now is blocked from sadillite veiw,,Probably becausae of aberdeep proving ground...

But I went to a place I lived awhile ago in Manaaasa Va, Our neighbors had thier backyard surrounded by high cinderblock walls on all sides,Now I know why they had the walls up

A concealed swimming pool. I suspected it.Now I know.
But what makes me laugh is if google can get this close to a house that wall they built in some effects that wall has just become kinda useless.

[Eurobabe]

10. that is totally wild! I found my house too

although it won't zoom in close, I can at least identify the neighborhood because there are a bunch of new houses behind me.

[Bouncy Ball]

11. Old, old pictures.

The pictures of my area HAVE to be at least three years old, because three years ago, new homes were built behind us and they aren't present on those pics. Plus a major road near us now goes through and it still shows it as ending where it used to.

But cool! I'm gonna look at other places!

[achtung_circus]

12. The ability to toggle

between phot and map is wonderful. I've been using googlemaps because it is head and shoulders above the crap known as mapquest, but this is a wonderful new feature.

[BulletproofLandshark]

13. Pretty cool

My house in Strasburg,VA



Edit:That's the Shenandoah River directly to the south

[Cooley Hurd]

14. I love aerial/satellite photography!

I'm a geo-geek, what can I say?;)

[Worst Username Ever]

16. Then you'll like this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=2896639

[Beaverhausen]

15. That is amazing.

thanks :hi:

[GiovanniC]

17. Check Out Vegas

It's super cool with the satellite photos.

[ronnykmarshall]

18. Name this location

[hunter]

20. Queen Mary in Long Beach.

Easy.

Howard Hugh's "Spruce Goose" used to be in that dome. (Now it's in Oregon.)

Agent Mike is gonna call me for sure now.

Damn you, ronnykmarshall.

[hunter]

19. Oh My Goodness. If I'd had this tool as a young man...

...I'd probably be in a federal prison.

Here's a nice photo of California's San Onofre Nuclear power plant:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%22San+Clemente%22&ll=33.370092,-117.556769&spn=0.008208,0.010664&t=k&hl=en

If I'm not mistaken (it was a long time ago) this is the Humboldt Bay Nuclear Power Plant, which was California's first commercial nuclear power plant built in 1963. It was pretty much earthquake-and-tsunami bait until Pacific Gas and Electric closed it.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=eureka+California&ll=40.741296,-124.209495&spn=0.008208,0.010664&t=k&hl=en

I'm very fond of the Humboldt plant. It was built and run like a Navy boat floating on wet dirt.

There are a lot of other addresses I'd like to type in, but I'm a little bit afraid someone is watching.

[no name no slogan]

21. M$ used to have something like this way back....

I haven't seen this in a while. I'll have to look (although I'm deathly afraid to do so-- my yard is half dug up).

[skybunny]

22. Wow, This is very cool.

Thanks for the link.