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Google offers better-than-ever satellite photos - show us your house!

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Danelle O'Shea

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Programs such as NASA's World Wind have made checking out satellite views of your neighborhood possible. But Google is making it easy.

The search engine unveiled a beta service on April 5 that allows users to type in an address and see a satellite view of the property. It's the outgrowth of the company's purchase last year of mapping company "Keyhole".

Available at maps.google.com, users type in an address and receive a detailed map of the location. Clicking on the “satellite” option in the right-hand corner offers a satellite view.

There have been a few privacy concerns raised, especially because Keyhole initially was funded by the Central Intelligence Agency.

Google says those concerns probably are mostly unfounded. The service doesn't zoom in close enough so users can see people on the ground, or even vehicles.
Just type in your address and hit "satellite" in the upper right hand corner.

Here's my house in Arvada, CO. See me? I'm on the porch, waving.

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Around here they use black helicopters to take the pictures. ;)

(Note the deer eating the rosebushes along Kalaspo Avenue)
 

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I'm going to cross-reference these photos with the "How Many Knives do You Own" topic and go 'shopping'. :)

Just kidding,
Bob

p.s. The whole satellite photo thing is interesting, but I can take a better picture of the house just standing in the street.
 
It won't zoom in very close to my place, either :(...I guess I should stop shooting at low-flying airplanes and helicopters with my .50AE Desert Eagle.:D.:D.
 
Bob W said:
I'm going to cross-reference these photos with the "How Many Knives do You Own" topic and go 'shopping'. :)
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D'OH! <smacks forehead> :footinmou

(be sure to cross-reference the "how many Rottweilers do you own" thread as well. ;) )
 
Your search for 115 S ** E Ave Tulsa OK 741** near did not match any locations.

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Got close, but no cee-gar.;) I did find my house on another search engine a while back but I don't remember which one it was.:rolleyes:
 
My place is just a blur of green. I live in the middle of nowhere so I don't expect them to have good shots, but it would be cool.
 
Looks like the thing only covers America or places it has, or wants to, bomb. No pics of Oz as far as I can discover. :confused:
 
I live just to the north of the 45th parallel...seems to be its cut-off point.
I was always told I lived in the sticks !!
We don't need surveillance up here anyway...everyone knows everyone...and anything thats going on...just ask Mabel.
 
Nice "digs", Maximus, :eek: but how do you ever find the time for all the gardening? :rolleyes: For that matter, how do you afford such a place a on a policeman's salary?!? You must have a little "side-line" going. :cool: Do be careful!!

Ken
 
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