I had heard about the satellite imagery that had been added to Google Maps but didn’t play with it until this morning, when I found this aerial map of our place, the L-shaped house inside the curve of the road. I called Jack in to look at it, and he said “What does that tell you?” “That there is no privacy?”
We spent some time looking at the map, and decided, based on the available clues, that the photos were taken last fall.
I am amazed that I can identify our round pen, stock trailer and propane tank. I was also amused to see that our driveway is in the wrong place according to their algorithm.
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April 12th, 2005 at 10:32 am
I looked at them more closely, and I think they were taken late spring, early summer last year. If you look at the nearby ponds on Hay Creek, they are full. And the Shrub Oaks aren’t as greened up as we first thought, as compared to the pine trees.
April 12th, 2005 at 10:39 am
Although, if this image came from the same Keyhole database that does the 3-D work, then they were taken in May 2002 and that is not the neighbor’s new tool shed we see next door. (hard to be sure since the Google watermark is on top of it.)
April 12th, 2005 at 12:58 pm
Check out Google Sight seeing
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