My Home on Google | Admire Kerala's Lush Greenery

[arunbg]

Here's a picture of my home, sweet home and neighbourhood as taken from a satellite used by the Google Earth software. It's the one with the red circle around it.
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n44/arunbg/myhome.jpg
Admire the lush greenery of God's Own Country, Kerala

I agree the detail is a bit out, but I've figured that in major cities and in countries like the US, the detail is quite mindblowing (you can even distinguish cars from trucks !).

In case you don't have the software, download it from http://www.googleearth.com

C'mon let's see your neighbourhood too

___________________

Arun

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
~ Albert Einstein

 

[neutrino]

The maps were recently updated for many parts of the globe in June as part GE's first year anniversary.

 

[moose]

This kind of quality right here on google maps
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...8407,-71.058186&spn=0.001397,0.00339&t=k&om=1

just blows my mind O_O

 

[neutrino]

This kind of quality right here on google maps
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...8407,-71.058186&spn=0.001397,0.00339&t=k&om=1

just blows my mind O_O

I think I read somewhere that Cambridge, MA and some other place in the US has images of the highest resolution. More than the cities, one should check out geographical features such as mountains, canyons and volcanoes at an oblique angle.

 

[Monique]

Canals of downtown Amsterdam
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...1&ll=52.374761,4.888058&spn=0.001154,0.003814
You can see people sitting on the terrace on the bridge to the right.

 

[meteor]

I possesses an apartment in the building indicated by the red arrow. This is a little town in the Pyrenees called "La Molina", famous for being a ski-resort. I go there from time to time to practice astronomy, the sky is free from pollution

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/5404/molina45qo.jpg

 

[J77]

Canals of downtown Amsterdam

I give you De Pijp

http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/5463/pijp8xl.jpg

 

[arunbg]

MOUNT EVEREST

 

[DaveC426913]

Did you guys know that in some of the best places, such as downtown New York and Paris, you can see individual people?




Drat! They don't seem to have upgraded MY area. Vehicle-scale resolution ends just a mile short of my house on the outskirts of Toronto Canada.



Hey, something we used to do in Geography class when looking at photos like this is try to ascertain as much as possible about when the photo was taken.

Can you tell (without looking at the datestamp):
- what year?
- what season?
- what day of the week (weekday/weekend)?
- what time of day?

I know the pic of my area was taken this year, since I can see new buildings under construction.

And I can tell it was taken in the last couple of weeks of April or first weeks of May. All the sailing school boats at the local marina are already in the water, while none of private boats are.

And since there are big rigs on the highways and cars in parking lots of offices, it must have been taken on a weekday.

And I know by the shadows that it was taken between 10AM and 11AM.

I've nailed it down to a one-hour window on, at most, 20 possible days.



HAH! But now I know that this map is a FAKE! The cop with the radar at the Lakeshore Blvd. exit from Gardiner Expwy is not there. AND HE'S ALWAYS $*@!#&$ THERE!

 

[kant]

I love cities. There is an air of empire to it.

 

[Monique]

Did you guys know that in some of the best places, such as downtown New York and Paris, you can see individual people?

I already showed that, or is it not good enough?

 

[neutrino]

France...could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.

- The Da Vinci Code

 

[DaveC426913]

I already showed that, or is it not good enough?

Sorry, guess I missed that.

 

[DaveC426913]

This kind of quality right here on google maps
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...8407,-71.058186&spn=0.001397,0.00339&t=k&om=1

just blows my mind O_O

"Thews something wewy scwewy going on heyw...":tongue2: (my best Elmer Fudd)

See the semicircular building at far left? Centre on it.
Look at all the buildings adjacent to the semicircular building.
What's wrong with this picture?
:tongue: :tongue:

 

[J77]

Any Easter Eggs in Google Earth.

It flys to Area 51 but nothing interesting there, anything else?

I also typed in OBL - but even Google can't find him! :tongue:

 

[russ_watters]

MSN's latest mapping project has aerial photography - they flew airplanes around major metro areas to take the pictures. My house is the one on the right in the building in the middle.

 

[Gagan A]

Here's my home.
http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=30685224&x=76744373&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=1
Or better, visit:
http://static.flickr.com/67/194040099_b440549af1_o.png
(The image is a little less than 1mb)

 

[Danger]

What's wrong with this picture?

I don't know if this is what you're talking about, but all of them are accessable only from the water.

 

[Cyrus]

Wow this msn is great!

My house "targeted" in red...3...2...1...BOOOOOM!

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/5130/homeyy6.png

 

[berkeman]

"Thews something wewy scwewy going on heyw...":tongue2: (my best Elmer Fudd)

See the semicircular building at far left? Centre on it.
Look at all the buildings adjacent to the semicircular building.
What's wrong with this picture?
:tongue: :tongue:

Wow, talk about vertigo. I almost puked on my keyboard! You're right -- it looks like two different perspectives melded together on a horizontal line. If you zoom all the way out on that image, you can almost make out where the two images were joined. Same shadows, but different image perspective on the fly-over.

 

[berkeman]

Here's my home.
http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=30685224&x=76744373&z=18&l=0&m=a&v=1
Or better, visit:
http://static.flickr.com/67/194040099_b440549af1_o.png
(The image is a little less than 1mb)

What's that large circular stadium to the northeast of your home?

 

[Gokul43201]

What's that large circular stadium to the northeast of your home?

Looks like a cricket field.

 

[berkeman]

Looks like a cricket field.

Aha. Well, no wonder I didn't recognize it.

 

[Gagan A]

It is PCA - Punjab Cricket Stadium. It is fun to go there. I wish I was in Mohali so that I could see the coming matches there.

 

[DaveC426913]

Wow, talk about vertigo. I almost puked on my keyboard! You're right -- it looks like two different perspectives melded together on a horizontal line. If you zoom all the way out on that image, you can almost make out where the two images were joined. Same shadows, but different image perspective on the fly-over.

I thought I identified three different perspectives actually.

 

[DaveC426913]

MSN's latest mapping project has aerial photography - they flew airplanes around major metro areas to take the pictures. My house is the one on the right in the building in the middle.

How do I access this? Does it cover West Toronto?

 

[Monique]

Wow this msn is great!

My house "targeted" in red...3...2...1...BOOOOOM!

those houses and driveways are HUGE!