No need to thank me...

[Kweepa]

Wow, this is neat.  Austin sure does look ARID. 

But... but... look at all that grass, all those trees!

[Oliver]

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!!!

[Domino]

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 

[Alun]

I found my apartment building using this a while back (and made a post about it in my LiveJournal)--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, whereas other, equally noteworthy structures nearby (the Hollywood Bowl, 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...

[Al_Ninio]

I prefer Keyhole:

http://www.keyhole.com/

This is indeed much nicer.
Awesomeness.

[Kweepa]

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.

[Snarky]

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.

[Arcadia]

wow this is very cool.

[Kinoko]

I just wonder how long it generally takes for them to cover new areas.

[Vince Twelve]

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  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.

[Bad Voo-doo man]

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

[Phemar]

Here I am ...

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?

[Gilbert]

Well...

link here.

also:

AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRR!1!

[TheYak]

Well...

I so envy your commute.Ã, 
Live Here:

Work Here:

And the drive to work:

[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, 

[Oliver]

So, YakSpit you drive every morning 3 hours to get to work? Atleast that seems like a pretty big distance! (Compared to Gilbot, atleast)

[Bad Voo-doo man]

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...

[Gilbert]

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.

[Babar]

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.

[jaz]

Wow, that's ubercool,

I can not only see my house but even paths I take going home through park and my parking place...

[LGM]

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