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Fun with Google Maps

Baz Auckland

10:33 / 03.07.05

Anyone else out there loving Google maps? High definition sattelite photos of your house, and stalkee?

Zoom in here to see my house!

Anyone find anything interesting on here? I've heard the Nevada nuclear test sites look quite neat from space. The Pyramids outside Mexico City are quite cool too...

What does your neighborhood look like?

■

11:54 / 03.07.05

Will be loving it more when they finish the satellite stuff for the UK. One nice glitch they seemed to have ironed out is that it used to tell you to drive on the right around roundabouts.

charrellz

13:10 / 03.07.05

How funny. I'm quite a ways south of you (Texas to be exact), but there is an Alma street right by me too.

Smoothly

13:10 / 03.07.05

You want to download the nifty little interface they've developed to surf those maps. Warning: It's incredibly addictive.

Google Earth

w1rebaby

18:49 / 03.07.05

AT-ATs attack Palo Alto

GNUs and Mozillas attack Redmond

(try clicking on the thingies)

charrellz

21:15 / 03.07.05

NASA's World Wind is a fun map program. A little too fun really.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

21:18 / 03.07.05

I've been enjoying this. I've been looking up all the places I've lived; I'm amazed at the variety of textures and colours--this seaside town, that city suburb... I should totally gank screenshots and make a collage!

astrojax69

22:05 / 03.07.05

this has intrigued my boss for weeks - he keeps looking at places he grew up, and got me looking at places i visited - found the pyramids, vesuvius, stonehenge, titcaca; but couldn't quite find machu picchu.

found a closer view site for my city, but at the moment that's about all it seems to do - workmate suggested i paint a white cross on my roof and watch to see how often they chamge the photo!

funny, i thought about creating a thread on this a few days ago...

grant

15:51 / 05.07.05

Just as a note: not all the photos are from satellites (at least in the US) -- most of the up-close ones are from survey planes from the USGS.

Triplets

12:55 / 09.07.05

Transparenty!

paranoidwriter waves hello

13:03 / 09.07.05

You know 'Snow Crash' by Neil Stephenson; how the main protagonist, Hiro, has a virtual office with a personal librarian avatar and a real-time virtual 3D globe with which he can zoom in and see what's happening "out there" in the real world? We're getting closer all the time, don't you think? I for one can't wait.

Nice one Ms.T! That link really pushed my buttons.

paranoidwriter waves hello

13:19 / 09.07.05

I for one can't wait. I think.... Although Satellites and CCTV do make me feel...uncomfortable.

Oh my gosh, it's...it's... George C Scott as general Patton!

grant

18:11 / 13.06.08

So, the new "street view" on Google Maps is changing how this game works.

But look:
You can get my sister-in-law's license plate. You can see the tricycles and crap in my carport.

COG

18:55 / 13.06.08

You've just given us all your address as well.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

19:35 / 13.06.08

It can't get close enough to my house. It can get the houses two down from me but barely mine. Aha!

grant

01:57 / 14.06.08

You've just given us all your address as well.

C'mon over. We're making omelets for Sunday brunch!

(My neighbors make me cocky about the prospect of stalkers.)

grant

04:07 / 14.06.08

(Although really, if it'd go on a business card or in the phone book, I'm not that worried about it being public.)

COG

09:54 / 14.06.08

I have been in your area, nearly 20 years ago. We had some distant family living in Jupiter inlet colony. Rich rellys! They had Tammy Wynettes old house I think. Very nice to be able to choose between the in-house pool, the sea at the end of the garden or the inlet itself.

grant

02:04 / 15.06.08

Ha! I was just at Jupiter Inlet the other weekend, dropping the Boy (age 14) off at a party thrown by fancier people than us. Growing up, Jupiter Island was the place it was no longer fun to drive along the beach at because the cops would actually follow you down A1A until you crossed the bridge.

I was more of a Peanut Island kid, but even that's been domesticated now. They turned JFK's bunker into a museum....

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