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David T
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Posted: 19th Apr 2005 03:56
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You surely must have seen this, but for those who haven't Google have released a fully-scrollable, zoomable to street level satellite photo map of the US.

Show us pics of your houses! (don't link directly to google maps, as that's as good as giving your address away. But a pic cropped to your house would be cool )

Here's hoping google do it for the UK

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Robot
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Posted: 19th Apr 2005 04:25
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It would be nice if it did the UK as well

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Jeku
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Posted: 19th Apr 2005 04:29 Edited at: 19th Apr 2005 04:32
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This is where I cross the border every week to check my P.O. Box

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=49.002663,-122.265402&spn=0.003586,0.007297&hl=en

I would show my house but the map is too zoomed out in my area.

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This is the the city I live in (Abbotsford):




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Damokles
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Posted: 19th Apr 2005 04:30
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but you can have the UK map .... not with google, but it's ok too : http://www.viamichelin.com/viamichelin/fra/dyn/controller/mapPerformPage?strLocation=Chichester&strCountry=eur&google=1

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David T
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Posted: 19th Apr 2005 04:43 Edited at: 19th Apr 2005 04:44
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Is that Getmapping? They've done the UK, but not is as much detail. I'd really like to see UK done to the detail google did

@Jeku: You live in abbortsford? As in YXX? I think I saw that in my database of airports (don't ask.. :/)

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Posted: 19th Apr 2005 04:53
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http://www.multimap.com has aerial photos of the whole of Britain. Pretty detailed, you can pick out your house.

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Posted: 19th Apr 2005 05:03
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Quote: "@Jeku: You live in abbortsford? As in YXX? I think I saw that in my database of airports (don't ask.. :/)"


I live in Abbotsford, yes. It's about a 35-50 minute drive (depending on traffic) to Vancouver. YXX--- that's correct, it's the Abbotsford airport's code.


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Jimmy
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Posted: 19th Apr 2005 05:14
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Holy beans, I like how you can scroll the map by draggin with the mouse. That's INTELLECT!


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David R
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Posted: 19th Apr 2005 05:48 Edited at: 19th Apr 2005 05:49
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*Cheers* A map system that works with the mouse! No more 'click on the arrow images'. Why just the U.S? The UK is the only place worth mapping.....

[Spaghetti junctions and round-abouts, why dont you guys have round-abouts?]

Note; According to multi-map, myhouse doesn't exist [PE10 0QN]

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Posted: 19th Apr 2005 05:49
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We have a couple.


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David T
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Quote: "Pretty detailed, you can pick out your house."


Yeah, that uses GetMapping. The detail on that though is a bit disappointing, my house is just a green blob where a tree is (and it doesn't have the amazing click-n-drag).

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The click-drag is an example of the power of dynamic scripting--- and no it's not Flash. It's actual, dynamic, non-compiled script. It's the future!


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can I touch it?


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Posted: 19th Apr 2005 06:21 Edited at: 19th Apr 2005 06:23
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The Multipmap photos aren't as good as they used to be. When they first promoted it, I zoomed in until I could see my house and garden.

In Denmark, they have fully scrolling and rotating satellite maps.
A colleague of mine showed me his house, then followed the road 20 kilometres to his office! Now that was smart, you could see individual cars on the road.

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Posted: 19th Apr 2005 06:23
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I got the photo textures for flight sim addon, I took off from Broughton and followed roads to my house

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Posted: 19th Apr 2005 08:00
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How do I soom in to the sat photo?

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Posted: 19th Apr 2005 08:09
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Like BatVink says, when getmapping first came out a few years ago, they had a really nifty activex type zoomy scrolly thingy that let you click, drag and zoom over the whole of the uk. The bandwidth it used must have been phenomenal.

This was obviously just to get people interested and a few months later it turned into what it is now, a glorified shopping site.

Multimap gives you a degree of zooming so you can pick out your house but you have to pay getmapping some cash to download a highres version.

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Posted: 19th Apr 2005 08:14
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Well I live in the us and am using googlemaps.

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Posted: 19th Apr 2005 08:29
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I reckon we're following about 30 years behind the CIA here

Seriously, the new mapping software cropping (awful pun not intended) up all over the place is quite fun.


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Posted: 19th Apr 2005 11:51
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Our house has'nt been built yet, strange that coz i'm sitting in it......or am I............

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Yippie...

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Quote: " Our house has'nt been built yet, strange that coz i'm sitting in it......or am I............"

Dun dun duuuuuuun.


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Posted: 19th Apr 2005 13:37
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They don't have close up imagery for my house yet, which is odd because it's crystal clear in Keyhole. They can't have loaded the whole database yet...


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This is cool, but the photos are VERY old.

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Posted: 19th Apr 2005 15:05 Edited at: 19th Apr 2005 15:06
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meh



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Posted: 19th Apr 2005 15:16
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What a bland neighborhood. I hope you choke Eric.


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Posted: 19th Apr 2005 15:43
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Meeeeee

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