See your house... from a satellite.

fonerootfoneroot
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
<a href="http://www.globexplorer.com/mapquest/"; target="_blank">http://www.globexplorer.com/mapquest/</a>;



Just put your address in and click 'Aerial Photo' and bam I would post a picture of my house put it doesn't have an aerial photo of it, I did try it out with my old house though. Anyways, Pretty cool stuff
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  • Reply 1 of 36
    scott_h_phdscott_h_phd Posts: 448member
    Cool. Let's see if this works







    I'm at pixel 225 168
  • Reply 2 of 36
    scott_h_phdscott_h_phd Posts: 448member
    Here you can see how close to the lake I am.



  • Reply 3 of 36
    ludwigvanludwigvan Posts: 458member
    It seems some of the photos are a touch out of date -- the surrounding neighborhood of a former residence looks like it's from circa 1995. A neat tool nonetheless. It's nice to see what the roads and intersections look like around a Florida hotel I'll be staying at in the near future and be prepared for the possible hassle.
  • Reply 4 of 36
    fonerootfoneroot Posts: 102member
    Something that is also neat is you can go to max zoom out and it shows a picture of North America and then you can keep zooming in and in and you hopefully will be able to pick out your house
  • Reply 5 of 36
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/jrw227/.Pictures/house.png"; target="_blank">http://homepage.mac.com/jrw227/.Pictures/house.png</a>;



    it's 516 k. had to make it big to catch the purty surroundings.



    right in the middle of the picture.



    [ 05-05-2002: Message edited by: Jonathan ]</p>
  • Reply 6 of 36
    andersanders Posts: 6,523member
    Tres Cool. And it even got Copenhagen.



    <a href="http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?mapdata=IJoQ1SLRQss+e3K4vtGB1+mCY01z4D ziSo%2bWwik6%2f%2fLD8rmrZaIN0yQq3FyiVz0T1YVWrMA7O3 318O%2fpVZCwqm3eZcZVDIoah2D60OGr3GT%2fnJw14TA7s3xP XnB3tNRnbCHbwhBnC969aAFPdMY6dmeLsfgLz75%2flmWFi10E 3cvr7cCEXjSYS4jSDiYq2tlBIFdiBr78xGRuLki8FbbRDWjX0k 7hF%2fyQEf4hyveh8RVb%2fVUVfPvAE%2bsU8GJrGSdX6IqVSV gljkbRFMA8Ky0aN5YHEhs5H4%2fhSnkHLeDcfxbErerRME%2fM 4%2bVvASVh7XMTYeCu%2bI%2bo6II%3d" target="_blank">My flat</a> is on the sharp corner right in the middle of the picture.



    <a href="http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?mapdata=IJoQ1SLRQss+e3K4vtGB1+mCY01z4D ziSo%2bWwik6%2f%2fLD8rmrZaIN0yQq3FyiVz0T1YVWrMA7O3 318O%2fpVZCwqm3eZcZVDIoah2D60OGr3GT%2fnJw14TA7s3xP XnB3tNRnbCHbwhBnC969aAFPdMY6dmeLsfgLz75%2flmWFi10E 3cvr7cCEXjSYS4jSDiYq2tlBIFdiBr78xGRuLki8FbbRDWjX0k 7hF%2fyQEf4hyveh8RVb%2fVUVfPvAE%2bsU8GJrGSdX6IqVSV gljkbRFMA8Ky0aN5YHEhs5H4%2fhSnkHLeDcfxZgGufjXS73Ml PtdCFvxFV17nQsISmiwMc%3d" target="_blank">The surroundings</a>

    The stripe of gray between my flat and the harbour now has lawns, a "community house" and playfields from the bridge and double the distance to my flat. By the end of that area they just build new flats. Price: two millions for a normal 900 Sq.feet flat :eek:

    The large building at the center-top of the picture is our parliarment, the center of Copenhagen. If anyone know about Tivoli its the area left of the parliarment just left from the larger road and right from the main train station.

    The squarish blocks at the top of the green area is part of the University. My faculty is just north of the Parliarment though. Left of the uni-area I have an allotment (I hope its the right word), about 1000 sq.feet. Just cut the grass twenty minutes ago



    From how the area looks today compared to the pictures I would say that its from 1995.



    Sorry for all the info. I just got very excited when I saw this
  • Reply 7 of 36
    ferroferro Posts: 453member
    that is soooo awesome...
  • Reply 8 of 36
    fonerootfoneroot Posts: 102member
    From how the area looks today compared to the pictures I would say that its from 1995.



    Wouldn't it be cool if it was update every day Well I suppose that would be pointless sense nothing really changes in a day. If it was update at least every 6 months that would be cool
  • Reply 9 of 36
    pushermanpusherman Posts: 410member
    That's pretty cool. I really liked checking out NYC, having never been there. It's so big!



    Here's my apartment. The big pointy thing a block over is the Cathedral. The big green square caddycorner to my place is Lafayette Square.





    [ 05-05-2002: Message edited by: Poor taylor ]</p>
  • Reply 9 of 36
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    Lets see if this works...

    .

    Cool it does, im right in the middle on the corner on Little Neck Bay...



    I'm the house just north of the dock (the 2nd house from the top end of the corner)... Bastards with the dock have a fence and all the junk from the bay gets caught right behind our house...



    [ 05-05-2002: Message edited by: Paul ]</p>
  • Reply 11 of 36
    crusadercrusader Posts: 1,129member
    Darn, it doesn't have my house. Hey Jonathan, where do you live? Even in the outter suburbs of DC a house like that costs upwards of 2 million dollars <img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[Surprised]" />
  • Reply 12 of 36
    fonerootfoneroot Posts: 102member
    Wait these picture can't be from 1995 because the neighborhood of my old house wasn't barley developed in 1995 and it shows all of the houses on the street there... <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> Maybe some pictures are older and some are newer?
  • Reply 13 of 36
    g4dudeg4dude Posts: 1,016member
    Here's my crib, it's the circled one.

  • Reply 14 of 36
    ferroferro Posts: 453member
    I think they are only one or two years old...



    becuase the construction(tearing down the whole block) down the street was just starting in the photos...



    it is finished now...
  • Reply 15 of 36
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
  • Reply 16 of 36
    g4dudeg4dude Posts: 1,016member
    shit man, nice crib. ya beat mine
  • Reply 17 of 36
    noahjnoahj Posts: 4,503member
    I always did love this site. Surprising that you guys had never heard of it!







    If this image posts, I am right in the middle. 2nd house up from the major street on the right. You can see my church by the 4 way signal (hint, look for crosswalks and the red roof building with a parking lot) Also that park up above is great for sunny days and kids...



    [ 05-06-2002: Message edited by: NoahJ ]</p>
  • Reply 18 of 36
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    :confused: My house doesn't exist! I must be homeless! Gaah!







    ...but my 12-story tall dorm at school is shown:







    [ 05-06-2002: Message edited by: starfleetX ]</p>
  • Reply 19 of 36
    eugeneeugene Posts: 8,254member
    This isn't the first time it's been posted here. It was posted before the blackout. It looks like they've updated the photo of my house too.



    Here's an old one I archived:

  • Reply 20 of 36
    cosmonutcosmonut Posts: 4,872member
    Nothing but a regular Mapquest map comes up for anything I put in. I'm looking for the tab for the sat. image, but none can be found. Am I doing something wrong? <img src="confused.gif" border="0">
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