April 5th, 2005

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Satellite Photos of My Apartment

Forget about Yahoo and their Flickr and their 360 silliness. Google has struck back with a tres cool feature–they’ve added satellite imagery to Google Maps. I heard it first from (the de-sunglassed) Boris, that Google has folded Keyhole’s technology into their great mapping engine.

I was pretty impressed by Google Maps before, but this is, frankly, super cool. Why, here’s my apartment building from space:

Here’s a larger view. Judging by the state of construction across the street, I’d say that image is at least two years old, possibly more. Still, beggars can’t be choosers.

Of course, as I remarked in my original post, Google Maps is still only good for us North Americans. We’re a single continent floating in a vast cobalt sea.

If you find a photo of your home, post a link to it in the comments.

Comments: 19 Responses so far

Rog
April 5th, 2005
3:50 am

Well I tried to say something witty and intelligent about the whole maps thing, but your spam filter wouldn’t let me. =P

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mugwumper
April 5th, 2005
7:10 am

Now I have something to do today.
Here is my house

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Olaf
April 5th, 2005
8:02 am

They haven’t been able to get their high resolution imaging satellite over my house yet. Instead, they’ve given me this view (is this a cartoon?).

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Jason Kemp
April 5th, 2005
9:07 am

Well, they have something for my house but not at the resolution of yours. That just makes me hate Vancouver more. :)

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Randy Charles Morin
April 5th, 2005
9:28 am

The picture near my house showed a nearly building only built this last winter. I’m impressed that the images are that recent.

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gillian
April 5th, 2005
10:19 am

Here’s my annotated flickr picture of my place. I complain that Google’s pointing to the wrong building, but it’s only across the street.

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Chris
April 5th, 2005
11:25 am

The high-resolution shots (in major cities) are aerial flyovers, and the “cartoony” looking ones are the satellite shots. I could find my house in Vancouver easily, but my old house in Newfoundland isn’t there (just a low-res satellite shot).

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Preach
April 5th, 2005
2:14 pm

From that picture it looks like you live in the median of a highway. I hope that is not true.

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Norlinda
April 5th, 2005
5:04 pm

Here’s a link to my blog with the photo.

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Mel
April 5th, 2005
6:20 pm

Hi ho, neighbour!

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bree
April 5th, 2005
7:03 pm

Here’s my photo on my flickr.

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Ian King
April 5th, 2005
8:46 pm

Tres cool; here’s the netherworld between Mount Pleasant and the Drive. The photos aren’t quite as good as the flyover shots on the City of Vancouver’s map system, but then again, where else am I going to find flyover photos from different cities all in one easy-to-use place?

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Sean Calder
April 5th, 2005
10:19 pm

pretty fun. looks like this one was taken when Paul Allen’s yacht was parked out front of my place.

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Heron
April 6th, 2005
12:23 am

Google has me living on the very blurry edge of the road!
For those living in the US, Terraserver USA has MUCH better images. They are free, and you can have the system generate a nice big non-tiled pic for you to download. My house is very slightly northwest of the center of this image.

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Derek
April 6th, 2005
10:35 am

Rather than just linking to my house, I thought I’d suggest another neat game: find all those swimming pools in your neighbourhood that you didn’t know about.

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rod
April 6th, 2005
5:47 pm

Greetings from near Chicago, IL

I live here in Evanston.

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Peter Stathakos
April 12th, 2005
12:03 pm

I was super impressed by this. Unfortunately when I tried to find my old place in Montreal the high resolution pictures were not available.

Here are links to home and work in Vancouver.

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juri
August 24th, 2006
1:44 am

Dear ……

I am really impressed. It is really very nice. Actually I was just having a look on people’s great wish - does it resemble me or not ?

I really feel u r very good on photography which proves your interest and great art. Your website impressed me by proving your emotions as well. You are good by heart and w’be very famous.
My wishes and care

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anil
July 4th, 2007
6:46 pm

my home photo from satelight

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