I can see your house from here

[bushwacker bob]

Check this out www.earth.google.com

 

[BlueTrain]

No, you can't! The focus isn't sharp enough. However, you can see the building I work in near Dulles Airport in Virginia. Ironically, we are right across the street from the National Reconnaissance Office (or some such name), which runs the United State's spy satelites, supposedly. Anyhow, the image that comes up is pretty good and you can even see a car in the parking lot. Evidently it is a weekend picture and the shot must be about a year and a half old, judging from the building that are missing.

The county I live in (Fairfax Country, Virginia) is good enough to have an aerial photo of my house on it's website somewhere.

 

[Spacemonkey]

Before I bother downloading a potential waste of time, can you see all of the UK coastline in detail or Catalunya?

 

[Justin Time]

It's not too large a download, on broadband at least. The definition in my area isn't quite down to house level but I could see the outline of my street. The NASA World Wind programme is a much bigger download and not as whizzy to move about in, but seems to give much better defintion in the UK and the US. In American cities you can actually see cars on the road... and detect a magnetic anomaly somewhere near Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

[mark a.]

Definitely download it - it's ace. I haven't found a real use for it yet, unless you count wasting time at work (if I need to get from A to B I use Google Maps), but it's very, very cool, especially in places where the images have a decent resolution, and/or where there's lots of mountains to "fly" along.

 

[Ahjno]

This is completely brilliant!!!
I've found my parents home!! Even mum's car was on it!!!

I know what you did last summer - you'd better stop with running around in your garden ... or at least put on some clothes

 

[Roving Rich]

Doesn't work on windows 98
I'll have to try it at home.

Cheers
Rich

 

[Stew]

The detail is variable and colour coded to show where the resolution changes.. My house is shown pretty well.

Go look at the Grand Canyon - very cool. Took me a while to find the nazca lines and the pyramids but you can see them.

 

[Cyclingrelf]

This does the same sort of thing and has been around a while

http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

Also, it's open source/creative commons or similar, so there are loads of plugins that do really cool stuff.

 

[Robbie Roberson]

Here is my house, located 1 inch southeast of center of picture. Notice swimming pool in front of house, rectanglar object outlined well by concrete.

Shadow is slightly behind upper (north) side of house where gravel parking area is (tiny black dot is my truck).

Pond is located on left side of house/pool, it is large light colored area. We are surrounded by woods all around house, front of house is facing very large open cattle fields.

This is amazing to me.....................

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=10&Z=17&X=1181&Y=19781&W=1


Robbie Roberson

 

[Spacemonkey]

Wow! I found all my relevant places, and my gaff in Spain. The farm house and courtyard are clearly visible, although the pictures were obviously taken pre fire!!
Where do you get the Nasa one?

 

[Justin Time]

Try here or you can get it from the nasa.gov site too.

 

[Tantalus]

oh no you can't

Tant

 

[Hoodoo]

and detect a magnetic anomaly somewhere near Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

[Stew]

Here is my house, located 1 inch southeast of center of picture. Notice swimming pool in front of house, rectanglar object outlined well by concrete.

Shadow is slightly behind upper (north) side of house where gravel parking area is (tiny black dot is my truck).

Pond is located on left side of house/pool, it is large light colored area. We are surrounded by woods all around house, front of house is facing very large open cattle fields.

This is amazing to me.....................

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=10&Z=17&X=1181&Y=19781&W=1


Robbie Roberson

Nice one Robbie!

Here's your house using Google Earth - It's just out of the next step up of resolution!

I guess this is one of the sacrifices of having it in colour.

 

[socintel]

My house is the one in the red box. Behind my house is what I call "Free-country" and lots of it.

If you look close enough you can see me waving.



P.S. This picture is old, our roof is now black.

 

[Robbie Roberson]

Stew, thank you, why is it out of focus ?

Socintel, is that woods behind your house ?

Robbie Roberson

 

[Stew]

Stew, thank you, why is it out of focus ?

At the moment, the whole of Google Earth isn't at a high resolution. As you can see on the picture, the section just West of you is at a high resolution but for the moment your house and surrounding area is at a lower resolution.
I don't know when they'll be improving the res.

Are you impressed that I managed to find your house?

Anyone found anything else that's worth a look for?
I think I'll go look for the Great Wall of China...

 

[socintel]

Socintel, is that woods behind your house ?

Robbie Roberson

Yes, thats why I call it "free-country".

 

[Robbie Roberson]

Stew, yes I am very impressed you found my house.............

Technology is amazing.


Socintel, you have lots of free space to play........................

Robbie Roberson