Google's freaky maps

my house is second up from the corner here, with my old car in the driveway

this is a little hill, too steep to plow

You want to freak out your spouse and loved ones? Find your house on Google Maps, then zoom all the way out to a planet view. Ask them to come into the room, then zoom all the way down to where you can see your car in your driveway.

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treebjen says:

*cough*sprawl*cough* :-)
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

hawaii says:

I must live too close to a military base or something. After a certain depth, the photo disappears and I get, "We're sorry but we don't have imagery at this zoom level for this region." The same thing happens at all these satellite photo spots, so it might also just be that Honolulu's not worth sending a satellite over. But somehow I doubt that.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

mathowie says:

At this depth, it's done with a plane, and I bet you can't fly over major cities or near military bases, even for USGS data collection.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

afsheen says:

I don't think major cities are the problem, since I'm pretty sure there's the same amount of detail over my house in LA and my parents' house in Atlanta.

My old dorm in Maine, however, won't zoom in past the "zip code at a glance" view, which is probably because it's less than a mile from a navy base.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

treebjen says:

... I could swear that Keyhole had imagery for Ann Arbor, Michigan (about a year ago) that GMaps doesn't seem to have. Sort of odd.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

polyesterlester says:

It doesn't seem to want to zoom in all the way for Soldotna, Alaska, either. And the level it will zoom to doesn't look like a photo, but an impressionistic painting.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

somebear says:

Most of the "out in the hicks" places I tried to look at got the "We're sorry but we don't have imagery at this zoom level for this region" message. Places like LA or D.C., however, show up just fine.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

VTscapes says:

I live in one of those'out in the hicks' places.. Could we actually be storing vital information without our knowledge??lol...
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

Vidiot says:

Stalk Matt!
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

Andrew Huff says:

Interesting plough/harvest patterns in the fields south of you.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

mmahaffie says:

I think the system is using a variety of imagery (satellite and aerial) from a variety of sources. The satellite imagery usually has a pixel-resolution of more than a meter (5- 10- sometimes even 30-meter pixels). Where there is only larger-pixel data it will stop zooming in past a certain level; after it becomes an impressionistic painting, it becomes blobs of color.

Interestingly, there are places (zoom in toCentral Delaware, for example) where you can see the different imagery data sets next to each other. The green stuff is someone's satellite data, the black and white swath is more recent, hi-res aerial imagery taken by USGS of the Dover AirForce Base and environs as part of homeland security work.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

froman98 says:

The land around the neighborhood looks like a circuit board.
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

joaobambu says:

Great idea; Need to get my groove going with google maps!
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

Yakima_gulag says:

damn if i could just follow the car that is out there with the loud @$$bass until he goes to his house......
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

somebear says:

Realtime satelite pictures on goole maps, now that would be the coolest, albeit a bit unrealistic (for now).
Posted 57 months ago. ( permalink )

LancerE says:

These memory maps are fun to look at, but what's even more fun is looking at the 4-year old comments that talk about times before every square inch had a detailed aerial view (: I remember those days
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

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