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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kinoko on Wed 22/06/2005 13:57:22

Title: No need to thank me...
Post by: Kinoko on Wed 22/06/2005 13:57:22
I submit to you that this is the coolest thing ever. Ever. Not even evolution is this cool.

This is my house (somewhere in here!):
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=sydney&ll=-27.335529,153.043107&spn=0.014999,0.021329=k&hl=en

Go NUTS with this thing people. I'm finding Mt. Fuji at the moment.
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Phemar on Wed 22/06/2005 14:21:10

Woah. Awesome!

Dude, this crap rocks!
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Squinky on Wed 22/06/2005 14:29:22
Yeah, I found this awhile ago, I've got a kick out of it by looking at places i used to live and getting all nostalgic like....

heres me:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=emmett+idaho&ll=43.879309,-116.511469&spn=0.044718,0.061798=k&hl=en
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: auhsor on Wed 22/06/2005 14:32:31
You mean the've got maps to australia. When I last looked at this there was pretty much no detail in Aus but plenty in America... Oh and I used up like 15mb of bandwith in a few minutes cos I was at uni... Kinda took up a fair chunk of my quota too. :P
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Kinoko on Wed 22/06/2005 14:36:47
Hehe, I'm a little worried about how much I might be using @_@

I managed to find the hotel I'll be staying at in Tokyo: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=shizuoka&ll=35.689988,139.695389&spn=0.007499,0.010664=k&hl=en

Keio Plaza. It's that tall, thin, "vertical" one.. uh. Looks like two tall, narrow rectangles next to each other.
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Inkoddi on Wed 22/06/2005 14:39:48
I live somewhere in the middle of this (where things that appear to be houses are visible)
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Inkoddi%20lives%20here&ll=64.358940,20.497913&spn=0.160332,0.225563=k&hl=en 
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: SSH on Wed 22/06/2005 14:46:02
Here's my house... http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=55.988581,-3.396642&spn=0.007703,0.009259=k&hl=en

but its wierd, the very-high details bits in Scotland seem to be nearly entirely randomly placed, for example my house is visible, but central edinburgh isn't!
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Kinoko on Wed 22/06/2005 15:02:27
I've got Mt Fuji:  http://maps.google.com/maps?q=shizuoka&ll=35.357780,138.735695&spn=0.239983,0.341263=k&hl=en

Tokyo Tower: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=New+York,+NY&ll=35.657995,139.746373&spn=0.014999,0.021329=k&hl=en

Statue of Liberty:  http://maps.google.com/maps?q=New+York,+NY&ll=40.688896,-74.044107&spn=0.007499,0.010664=k&hl=en

Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Kweepa on Wed 22/06/2005 15:05:01
SSH, they're keeping an eye on radicals.

My house, just to the left of the marker. (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=6300+big+cat+cv,+austin,+tx,+78750&spn=0.007070,0.008401=k&hl=en)

Some of the city downtown shots are composited from different positions - it's funny to see two groups of buildings angled sharply towards each other.
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: veryweirdguy on Wed 22/06/2005 15:18:44
 This is roughly me, in among the patch of letters near the bottom. Tis a small village, so doesn't have much detail.... (//http:////maps.google.com/maps?q=Skelmorlie&ll=55.877495,-4.896984&sll=55.882988,-4.838104&spn=0.041542,0.038795&sspn=0.166168,0.155182=k&hl=en)
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Paper Carnival on Wed 22/06/2005 15:25:04
It doesn't work for my country. I hate you Kinoko! >:(
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: monkey0506 on Wed 22/06/2005 15:32:14
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Cleveland,%20Texas=k

My, erm, home town.  I actually live about 20 miles outside of "town", in fact, it's outside the city limits, but you might be able to see my house in that picture...

Actually:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Highway%20105%2077327=k

I'm somewhere between 'I' and 'H' I think.  You can't zoom in close enought to even see the difference between them though, so that doesn't help much.
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Mr Jake on Wed 22/06/2005 15:38:23
I prefer Keyhole:

http://www.keyhole.com/
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Post by: Miez on Wed 22/06/2005 16:07:55
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=52.084465,5.122547&spn=0.092525,0.101624=k&hl=en

But boy, what crap resolution they have for the Netherlands. I'm in the middle of that gunk somewhere. And yes; this is the highest rez. >:(

Oddly enough keyhole can actually find my street and show a little blob where my house is! Yayness!
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: auhsor on Wed 22/06/2005 16:08:44
Heh google bought out (http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/keyhole.html) Keyhole. Theres a new version coming out soon (http://newrecruit.org/archives/2005/may/googlekeyhole) I think. Oh and microsoft is also going to compete (http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050523-125208) with Google Earth with their own version called Virtual Earth.

Oh and I found my town. Pity its all blurry: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-34.498787,150.790529&spn=0.051928,0.074329=k&hl=en
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: EldKatt on Wed 22/06/2005 17:17:48
Awesome. Awesome to the max. I live right in the middle of here (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=norrk%C3%B6ping,+sweden&ll=58.589230,16.188612&spn=0.057249,0.085144=k&hl=en). The low resolution makes it all pretty pointless, though, in that you can probably find more specialised services for smaller areas.
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Anarcho on Wed 22/06/2005 17:39:54
Wow, this is neat.  Austin sure does look ARID. 

Here I am:  http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2600+16th+Street+NW+Washington+DC&spn=0.004957,0.007918=k&hl=en
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: LGM on Wed 22/06/2005 18:39:16
http://maps.google.com/maps?&ll=41.554177,-90.492818&spn=0.005397,0.007918=k&hl=en

This is me. My house is the second house on the left of the street that is centered on the image.

Yes, you can come stalk me now.

Interesting notes: The two buildings behind me are a retirement home and a medical center, respectively.. And across the street from them is my high school. I live much too close to it ;)

Oh, and here's Evil1359's house, just in case you want to kill us both:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.562277,-90.509748&spn=0.005397,0.007918=k&hl=en

(It's also in the center)
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Babar on Wed 22/06/2005 19:17:46
Bahh! It doesn't even recognise my city
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Nacho on Wed 22/06/2005 19:23:01
Quote from: Babar on Wed 22/06/2005 19:17:46
Bahh! It doesn't even recognise my city

Mine neither, but you can unzoom till seeing the whole planet and search, that's how I founf that my city is photographed... in a terrible definition... :(
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Kweepa on Wed 22/06/2005 20:30:57
Quote from: Anarcho on Wed 22/06/2005 17:39:54
Wow, this is neat.  Austin sure does look ARID. 

But... but... look at all that grass, all those trees!
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Oliver on Wed 22/06/2005 21:08:55
Welllllll. Estonia has been been photographed very shi... badly.

Anyway, this my city Pärnu, I live somewhere on the coast of that big river.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=yes&ll=58.400917,24.503975&spn=0.172348,0.253372=k&hl=en

And because noone ever knows where Estonia is or how it looks like, then here's a picture.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=yes&ll=59.194336,25.037842&spn=5.515137,8.107910=k&hl=en

And next time I tell someone that I live in Estonia, they'd better now where it is!!!
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Domino on Wed 22/06/2005 21:20:56
Yes, this kind of stuff is really neat and i would like to spend hours just looking at different locations.

I found my house on the map, but it was so tiny i could barely make it out.  I will definitely check this out more when i get home from work.

Thank You Kinoko  :)
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Alun on Wed 22/06/2005 21:58:57
I found my apartment building (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.105575,-118.334824&spn=0.003991,0.005933=k&hl=en) using this a while back (and made a post about it in my LiveJournal (http://www.livejournal.com/users/alun_clewe/84516.html))--and when I moved the map around to look at other nearby areas I noticed something very odd.

I live in Hollywood, a few blocks northeast of the Hollywood/Highland complex and southeast of the Hollywood Bowl--and for some reason on the Google maps the Kodak Theatre (part of the Hollywood/Highland complex) is labeled (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.102571,-118.340499&spn=0.007499,0.010010=k&hl=en), whereas other, equally noteworthy structures nearby (the Hollywood Bowl (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.112538,-118.339727&spn=0.007499,0.010010=k&hl=en), for example) are not.Ã,  I can't think of any really good reason why the Kodak Theatre, alone among all the buildings in Hollywood, should be labelled on the map, so I am led to wonder whether this really is a label on the Google map, or whether the Kodak Theatre really does have "Kodak Theatre" painted on its roof in big white letters...
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Al_Ninio on Wed 22/06/2005 22:16:10
Quote from: Hotspot on Wed 22/06/2005 15:38:23
I prefer Keyhole:

http://www.keyhole.com/

This is indeed much nicer.
Awesomeness.
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Kweepa on Wed 22/06/2005 22:23:06
Quote from: Alun_Clewe on Wed 22/06/2005 21:58:57
I live in Hollywood, a few blocks northeast of the Hollywood/Highland complex and southeast of the Hollywood Bowl--and for some reason on the Google maps the Kodak Theatre (part of the Hollywood/Highland complex) is labelled

Looks like it's on the building to me - they sensibly painted it so it reads right when the satellite photo is oriented north = up.
There's also a building with "(c) 2005 Google" painted on it a little bit further down. :=
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Snarky on Thu 23/06/2005 00:52:19
If there's no high-resolution image of your city, have no fear! The coverage of the higher-resolution images is constantly improving. When I first learned about Google Maps, you couldn't even see my home city. When I tried again today, I could clearly make out the roof of my house.
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: on Thu 23/06/2005 01:49:11
wow this is very cool.
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Kinoko on Thu 23/06/2005 03:05:32
I just wonder how long it generally takes for them to cover new areas.
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Vince Twelve on Thu 23/06/2005 03:54:59
I like occasionally checking in at Google Sightseeing

http://www.googlesightseeing.com

They post lots of famous places, weird things (possible UFOs [yeah right], Area 51, really big graffiti), and lots of other interesting stuff that you can check out via Google maps.

And here's my city in Okinawa: Sashiki (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=26.178017,127.788591&spn=0.042658,0.084457&z=3=k&hl=en)  Though they haven't made a high res version of Okinawa yet.  But you can see the "U" shape of Sashiki around this little bay.  The green parts (the only parts where it isn't solid city) are the sides of the mountains that surround my little town.  I live on the West side of the "U," just a few blocks from the bay.
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Bad Voo-doo man on Thu 23/06/2005 05:27:42
Damn, it even points to my house if I type in the address http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1304+East+900+South+Provo=k&hl=en
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Phemar on Thu 23/06/2005 08:35:54

Here I am ... (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=cape+town&ll=-34.197264,18.440723&spn=0.047207,0.074329=k&hl=en)

Their close-up imagery stops like one picture before my house!

How often do you think this is updated? Once a year? Once a day?
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Gilbert on Thu 23/06/2005 09:05:02
Well...
(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2002-12/79135/homework2.JPG)
link here. (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Hong+Kong&ll=22.336321,114.144967&spn=0.006695,0.010600=k&hl=ja)

also:
(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2002-12/79135/facec.JPG)
AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRR!1! (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Hong+Kong&ll=22.417259,113.934917&spn=0.053558,0.084801=k&hl=ja)
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: TheYak on Thu 23/06/2005 09:57:58
Quote from: Gilbot V7000a on Thu 23/06/2005 09:05:02
Well...
I so envy your commute.Ã, 
Live Here:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/TheYak/whiteoak.jpg)
Work Here:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/TheYak/parkave.jpg)
And the drive to work:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/TheYak/drive2.jpg)
[Edit: That's 42 Miles (67.6 KM), 1 hour there, 1.5 hours back (Or 1.493 European hours)]
I like this site a lot more than the satellite sites I've checked before.Ã,  For stand-alone applications, though, I like Worldwind (NASA).. free, has several view modes, 3D heightmap views, and weather/event tracking capabilities.Ã, 
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Oliver on Thu 23/06/2005 10:04:40
So, YakSpit you drive every morning 3 hours to get to work? Atleast that seems like a pretty big distance! (Compared to Gilbot, atleast)
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Bad Voo-doo man on Thu 23/06/2005 10:30:36
It must not update often, those fields behind my house aren't green anymore, they've been houses for a long time now...I remember the days when it was fields..*sniff sniff* good times man, good times...
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Gilbert on Thu 23/06/2005 11:26:50
Hehe but but but I can't drive to work! (I have no driving license)
And getting to work with MTR (our underground railway system) costs me 10 minutes each trip, though it's just 1 station from home to work (and indeed my home tower and the office are both just above MTR entrance) I still need to walk up and down, from one end of a station to another, etc. which wastes half of the time.
Walking there cost me only 15 minutes, which's about 1 km worth of distance.
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Babar on Thu 23/06/2005 12:31:34
Quote from: Farlander on Wed 22/06/2005 19:23:01
Quote from: Babar on Wed 22/06/2005 19:17:46
Bahh! It doesn't even recognise my city

Mine neither, but you can unzoom till seeing the whole planet and search, that's how I founf that my city is photographed... in a terrible definition... :(

Considering how horrible I am at geography, it took me almost an hour to find my city like that. In the end, the zoom was so bad, that all you could see were little white spots on a green background.
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: jaz on Thu 23/06/2005 15:22:13
Wow, that's ubercool,

I can not only see my house but even paths I take going home through park and my parking place...
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: LGM on Thu 23/06/2005 16:21:57
What's that yellow spot you circled. Gilbo?

Oh, and there's a castle somewhere in here that I visted in Germany:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Heidelberg,+Germany&ll=49.402170,8.716536&spn=0.043173,0.063343=k&hl=en

I think Neuschwanstein is in here somewhere:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Schwangau,+Germany&ll=47.562475,10.759048&spn=0.043173,0.063343=k&hl=en
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Nacho on Thu 23/06/2005 17:26:04
hehehehe... The white house is censored, but some other European government palaces are not... Look for the Zarzuela or Moncloa in Spain and "le Eliséo" in Paris... Thanks Google! :D

http://sigpac.mapa.es/fega/visor/

Here is the URL for those who'd like to see my country in high definition. It's a sistem developed for counting olive trees and assign governmental subventions.  :)
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: on Thu 23/06/2005 18:36:14
Unfortunatley you can't zoom in far enough to my area to recognise it, but still, the fields look pretty :D
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: LGM on Thu 23/06/2005 19:12:16
Well yes, Mark.. We'd all assume the satelites aren't powerful enough to show a small cardboard box along the river. But yes, the fields next to it are pretty and COULD count as your home too..
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Isegrim on Thu 23/06/2005 19:42:33
That (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Garching,Germany&ll=48.263744,11.671515&spn=0.006630,0.012295=k&hl=en)'s the Garching Uni Campus (Dependance of the TU München). The large "ribbed" building on the upper left is the mechanical engineering faculty  (where I study...)
The round thing farther to the right of it is an experimental nuclear reactor (*winks with third eye*)...
Funny thing is that allegedly all "security-sensitive" Places in America are censored...  That's like an invitation to terrorists to bomb anything that is grayed out. "It's not on Google Maps, Must be important somehow ;)"
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: HillBilly on Thu 23/06/2005 20:04:01
QuoteWe could not understand the location norway

That's okay. I hear it all the time.
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: LGM on Thu 23/06/2005 21:09:11
Can anyone find Marienplatz in Munich?
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Alun on Thu 23/06/2005 21:12:27
Quote from: Farlander on Thu 23/06/2005 17:26:04
Here is the URL for those who'd like to see my country in high definition.

Actually, the Google Maps satellite images include much of Spain, too.  I lived in Spain for two years, and yesterday I decided to see if I could look in Google Maps at the places I had lived there.  Unfortunately, though, detailed satellite images of two of the four cities I lived in (Fuengirola (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=36.546021,-4.634085&spn=0.059996,0.080080=k&hl=en) and Ceuta (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=35.891132,-5.314465&spn=0.059996,0.080080=k&hl=en)) aren't available there--but, while the page you linked to does show Fuengirola in much more detail, it has even less detail on Ceuta than Google Maps.  I guess detailed satellite images of Ceuta (the Monte Hacho part, anyway) just aren't available for some reason...
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Gilbert on Fri 24/06/2005 02:15:46
Quote from: [lgm] on Thu 23/06/2005 16:21:57
What's that yellow spot you circled. Gilbo?
Use your imaginations, it looks like an evil face, right? :=
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Ponch on Fri 24/06/2005 03:13:30
Here (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3612+lincoln+ave+el+paso&spn=0.026264,0.044117=k&hl=en) is the dusty cowtown I've spent the last couple of years in.

God, once I've seen this place from such a vantage point, I dislike it even more. Two more years and I can ditch these tumbleweeds and cow skulls bleaching in the sun and get back to someplace with surf.

Counting the days,

Ponch
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: LGM on Fri 24/06/2005 05:58:49
QuoteUse your imaginations, it looks like an evil face, right? Larry Values!!11

My God it looks more like the Pilsbury Doughboy..

Oh and Ponch.. There's no green there! WTF that's unnatural.
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Timosity on Fri 24/06/2005 06:05:10
My place has been photographed although my current house is under trees (which I hope don't fall on me) and I can even pick exactly where my new appartment is which I'll be moving into around November when the place opens. I live next to one of the bussiest roads in the country (constant trucks 24/7)

(http://img295.echo.cx/img295/360/wheriliv8ra.jpg)


I've posted this link before to the program World Wind, which does a similar thing except you have to download a rather large file. It also has a 3D engine

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Phemar on Fri 24/06/2005 07:45:51

Now that I know all your addresses, I shall unleash my horde of serial-killers and child-molesters unto the world!
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Post by: Nine Toes on Fri 24/06/2005 10:14:37
Hmm... that's funny.  I typed in "Area 51", and my browser froze up...  ¬_¬ ... coincidence?...

Here's me.  Crappy resolution close-up, and I can't zoom any closer than 4 notches from the top.  http://maps.google.com/maps?q=sydney&ll=-27.335529,153.043107&spn=0.014999,0.021329=k&hl=en

That "X" in the center is the airport, and that's somewhat close to my apartment building, and I'm guessing that line running from the top left is Highway 45, so somewhere between those two. :p  That small body of water to the left of the town is the Embarass River (if I was that river, I'd be embarassed too).
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Isegrim on Fri 24/06/2005 10:25:08
Quote from: [lgm] on Thu 23/06/2005 21:09:11
Can anyone find Marienplatz in Munich?

Sure can...
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=munich,+germany&ll=48.137573,11.574064&spn=0.007392,0.010579=k&hl=en
It's the area before the dark, complicated looking building (the town hall). A little to the upper left is the cathedral.
When looking for places in Germany, use www.stadtplandienst.de. They also have satellite images (although not as finely resolved as google)
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Vince Twelve on Fri 24/06/2005 10:30:30
Quote from: Mr. Hyde on Fri 24/06/2005 10:14:37
Hmm... that's funny.  I typed in "Area 51", and my browser froze up...  ¬_¬ ... coincidence?...

If you want to find Area 51, you should try out Google sightseeing:

http://www.googlesightseeing.com

Just a few clicks, and here it is:

Area 51 (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=groom+lake,nv&ll=37.272835,-115.798731&sll=36.518555,-115.561924&spn=0.060081,0.085402&sspn=0.127029,0.120678=k&hl=en)

Seriously, check out Google Sightseeing (http://www.googlesightseeing.com).  It's a brilliant way to waste an hour or five.
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Nine Toes on Fri 24/06/2005 10:41:18
...The big white spot in the middle of the map?
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Vince Twelve on Fri 24/06/2005 10:46:35
The big white spot is Groom Lake.  Area 51 is the base and airstrips just south of Groom Lake.
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Esseb on Fri 24/06/2005 11:02:04
Most of Norway is so blurry I can't even find the county I live in, but here's my university:

(http://www.esseb.com/images/uni.jpg)
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=59.939775,10.723300&spn=0.007821,0.010664=k&hl=en

And they call Australia down under.
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Babar on Fri 24/06/2005 13:43:51
Woo!
Since where I live now is impossible to zoom into, I decided to find my old house in Cairo:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=cairo&ll=30.036911,31.229442&spn=0.005987,0.007918=k&hl=en

I lived in the centre of that pic, the brown blob right above the big triangular-looking building (Four Seasons Hotel)
Title: Re: No need to thank me...
Post by: Kinoko on Fri 24/06/2005 13:47:08
Can someone find a really high-end area in America? I wanna see big mansions and swimming pools. Hey, who knows where the Neverland Ranch is?
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Post by: SSH on Fri 24/06/2005 14:21:13
After a quick look for "google maps neverland ranch" on google...

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.745507,-120.088120&spn=0.006534,0.008326=k&hl=en
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Post by: Kweepa on Fri 24/06/2005 16:04:29
Quote from: Kinoko on Fri 24/06/2005 13:47:08
Can someone find a really high-end area in America? I wanna see big mansions and swimming pools. Hey, who knows where the Neverland Ranch is?

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=lake+austin,+austin+tx&ll=30.325720,-97.777129&spn=0.009667,0.011845=k&hl=en

How about this?
Lakefront properties, mansions, speedboats, swimming pools.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=beverly+hills,+los+angeles&ll=34.117516,-118.418970&spn=0.009667,0.011845=k&hl=en

Some Beverly Hills mansions. Don't ask me what those ringed terraces are...


Wow, Neverland Ranch is actually a ranch out in the middle of nowhere!
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Post by: Darth Mandarb on Fri 24/06/2005 16:20:42
Quote from: SteveMcCrea on Fri 24/06/2005 16:04:29Don't ask me what those ringed terraces are...

I believe they're retaining walls ... to stop errosion and landslides from wiping out all the millionaire's lovely homes.
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Post by: Eggie on Fri 24/06/2005 17:30:13
That is spiffy...
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Post by: Timosity on Sat 25/06/2005 03:44:34
I'm surprised they haven't done this section

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=sydney&ll=-33.833942,151.238651&spn=0.086174,0.126686=k&hl=en

There are zillions of waterfront mansions around here with awesome views

here also

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=sydney&ll=-33.619709,151.290321&spn=0.086174,0.126686=k&hl=en

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Post by: Ponch on Sat 25/06/2005 04:57:09
QuoteOh and Ponch.. There's no green there! WTF that's unnatural.

Tell me about it. I used to live in southern California. Ocean, surfing, temperate weather. Now I live in the high desert of west Texas.

Funny how life turns out sometimes.

This is fascinating seeing where everyone lives. Surely this will come in handy when I'm standing trial for something or other one day!
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Post by: Nine Toes on Sat 25/06/2005 23:09:54
Quote from: SSH on Fri 24/06/2005 14:21:13
After a quick look for "google maps neverland ranch" on google...

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.745507,-120.088120&spn=0.006534,0.008326=k&hl=en

...and if you zoom in close enough, you can see Jacko molesting little boys.
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Post by: Vince Twelve on Wed 29/06/2005 01:04:05
Google is the coolest.  They just launched Google Earth.  It's an application that you download to your computer (Windows only right now) that allows you to see the whole globe, fly around it, zoom in, search, make notes, save, draw street lines directly over the sattelite pictures, and tons more stuff...

(http://www.thexiis.com/media/googleearth.jpg)

http://earth.google.com

Have fun!  It's just a beta version now, and it's streaming the data a bit slow, but I think that may be because I'm using through the business firewall.
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Post by: Al_Ninio on Wed 29/06/2005 01:17:33
That is pretty much the same thing Hotspot linked to, but enhanced with some stuff (well. I assume it's enhanced, anyway). Google probably bought it, or something.

Awesome.

Edit:
Yep.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v681/Al_Ninio/yepyep.jpg)
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Post by: Vince Twelve on Wed 29/06/2005 01:23:55
Ah, cool.
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Post by: Snarky on Wed 29/06/2005 01:47:28
Google just made it FREE, too!

Just heard about this earlier today, and have been playing with it for hours now. Man, is it amazing! With terrain elevation data, so you can actually see the landscapes in front of you. I looked out at the view from the house where I grew up, on the other side of the world, then jumped across the ocean to look at the courtyards at my old university.

The awesomeness of this thing defies words. And look what's next[/utl]!

I'm all giddy. (http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2005/06/scoop_stick_you.php)
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Post by: Domino on Wed 29/06/2005 01:52:45
I zoomed down at my house and didn't see my car in Google Earth, but then looked at where i work and i saw my car (i think it's mine, since the zoom was very blurry).  I know these images have to be quite old because changes in my city aren't updated yet.

But, alot of fun to mess around with.
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Post by: Kinoko on Wed 29/06/2005 02:48:12
Well, they have to be at least 9 months old because none of the new development behind my place has started yet. I wonder when they'll update them?
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Post by: LGM on Wed 29/06/2005 02:53:18
It's just a matter of when the satelites are over your city and if the satelite controller people decide to take a picture and index it.
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Post by: Vince Twelve on Wed 29/06/2005 02:58:25
I remember reading in a news article about the site that the images range from spankin' new to around three years old.  I can date the picture of the apartment building I lived in last year to be 13 to 16 months old since there is no grass surrounding the development and that is when they put in the new sodding...  Can't see if my car's there or not.  I always parked under a tree.  :(

I'm sure they're focusing more on getting hi-res for the rest of the world rather than updating parts that are already hi-res.  I'm hoping that they get hi-res of my city here in Okinawa.  I want to use this technology for a fun class about America and my hometown, and the kids will certainly want to see where they live in Sashiki as well.
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Post by: Darth Mandarb on Wed 29/06/2005 03:23:57
Don't know if somebody already posted this, but I think it's too damn cool ... (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Plant+42+in+Palmdale,+California&ll=34.637382,-118.082020&spn=0.005397,0.007832=k&hl=en)

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Post by: SSH on Fri 15/07/2005 15:33:53
It's Jesus!

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-16.337013,-71.959763&spn=0.089367,0.111546=k&hl=en
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Post by: Timosity on Fri 15/07/2005 15:41:14
That's pretty cool, it looks like some drunktnuc has added thaeir own image, but it's probably just natural selection
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Post by: Potch on Fri 15/07/2005 19:19:21
It doesn't work right with Boise.  The only thing that is right is Bronco Stadium at Boise State, but everything else is all wrong.
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Post by: Squinky on Fri 15/07/2005 19:32:12
Thats because Boise isnt real at all, were both just figments of our own imagination....


Really though, it is funny that there is a pretty detailed map of Emmett, and nothing on Boise....it just kinda disapears around hwy 15 I think....

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Post by: Vince Twelve on Wed 20/07/2005 14:58:07
Google is the coolest.  Do they ever stop getting cooler?

http://moon.google.com/

And if you zoom all the way in, you can make an important scientific discovery!!

But it's incomplete.  I've searched everywhere and I can't quite find my new place of employment. (http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html)
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Post by: auhsor on Wed 20/07/2005 15:11:19
Haha thats awesome! The full zoom is the best.
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Post by: Timosity on Sat 30/07/2005 05:13:11
I was just doing some mucking around with Google Earth to see what places around the world were at the same Latitude as my place in Sydney, approx: "33 degrees 44 minutes 10.89 seconds" south of the equator.

Heading out East I quite comfortably pass over the top of New Zealand

South America
- just south of Santiago, Chile
- just north of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Africa
- halfway between Cape Town & Atlantis in South Africa

and that about raps up the Southern Hemisphere as far as places with names on Google Earth to reference from.

I also had a look at the equivalent latitude North of the equator (33 degrees 44 minutes 10.89 seconds) as there is more land mass up there


Japan
- pretty much in line with these cities, Koga, Nogata, Yukuhashi

Iraq
- Bagdad

Europe
- Pretty much passes europe completely underneath through the Mediterranean Sea until it hits Africa

Africa
- ad-Dar-al-Bayda, Morocco

It was easier to be more specific in North America as there is better coverage there and more names of places, malls, etc to get references from

North America
- On the east coast- Myrtle Beach, South Carolina - and this is pretty much at the exact equivalent latitude
- Atlanta, Georgia - pretty much in the centre of the city
- just north of Phoenix
- On the west coast - Seal Beach, California, just South of LA, the beach directly south of Long Beach - exact equivalent Latitude


It's a pretty pointless excercise, but it's fun using Google Earth to find out trivial stuff about the world
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Post by: Darth Mandarb on Sat 30/07/2005 18:14:18
I live about 5 miles from Ft. Lauderdale airport (FLL).

When flying back from Michigan last week I was able to see my home as we were coming in for the landing.

It was awesome!  I've never been able to do that before.  Sure, I could pick out the high-ways and such, but actually pin-pointing my house?  No way.  But it looked just like Google Earth and I spotted it AND my truck in my parking spot!

Just thought I'd share ...
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Post by: LGM on Sat 30/07/2005 19:36:55
Bet you felt like a Hawk, eh? I tried pinpointing the resort town and famed Al Capone hideout town of South Haven on my way into O'hare. I think I saw it, but I'm not sure. Airplanes are fun! :-p