Google Earth in your neighborhhood?

[JB4310]

Was traveling in Vermont a couple years ago between Stratton and Bromely ski areas and some one had a large hand lettered sign that read something like "go back, your GPS is wrong" it was at the beginning of a long private road/drive.

Guess they got tired of having people drive down there and having to turn around in their yard.

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[dmccarty]

Over the holidays I paid a visit to the county offices to pay my taxes and visit the GIS office. Ten years ago you could go into the GIS office and view large sheets of paper with the aerial photos. 30ishx36ish sized paper. Great resolution. You could see root balls from trees in the woods, green transformer boxes, etc. You could buy the print as well. But the county does not sell these any longer.

You can access the photos on the Internet but the resolution is not as good as what they have in the office. But it was good enough for what I wanted.

I have gone back and looked at all of the places I used to live or where family used to live via the Google Street view. It was interesting to see how things had changed. Or not. Sure cheaper than traveling to those places.

Later,
Dan

 

[riptides]

About 20 years ago I was working at NASA on Earth Sensing satellites. We had clean rooms that would develop images from space vehicles. It was hard to find a clean shot of what we were looking at, but when we did, we were in awe. We could make out the landmarks of our Nations Capitol, peer at the islands of the pacific, look at the ag-farms of the west, and the crop-circles in the deserts......

Now-a-days I can google/bing/mapquest/terra-server/globalmapper a 3-d image and we gripe about it. Amazing the technology the Public has available to it.....

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Looks like google now has our local GIS data, because they now show property lines on google maps in my area. They also did a drive by recently, my street view is last Sept-oct timeframe. They also now show real estate for sale on the map.

 

[rdln]

I thought the good resolution stuff could be had if you bought a membership to globexplorer and other similar sites.

 

[firefighter9208]

Google and mapquest are both wrong for my address. It is 50 (first house on the right) on a dead end road. They have you drive one mile up my road and turn off on a side road. They then say my house is the first on the left.

No matter how many times I give people directions and tell them that Google, Mapquest, and their GPS will be wrong. I'll stand in the yard and watch them drive by. 5 minutes later they'll come back down the road a turn into my driveway.

I just reported this to Google. We'll see how long it takes to get it corrected.

Chris

 

[MossRoad]

My wife got Mapquest directions to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky one time. We followed them. The road kept getting smaller. The road signs were accurate, though, so we kept going. Finally, it had us turn down a one lane gravel road that took us past a couple houses and ended in a very nice barn.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My wife got Mapquest directions to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky one time. We followed them. The road kept getting smaller. The road signs were accurate, though, so we kept going. Finally, it had us turn down a one lane gravel road that took us past a couple houses and ended in a very nice barn.

Good to know, I might go there this summer
Probably will stop and see the even greater attraction in the area, Brady's Tractors

 

[WBWI]

terraserver.com has the most recent images of my area. They are from September 2007. Its cool because my house was just completed and I was wondering what the impact was on the forest. Bad thing is you can't get the detail bing or google has.

 

[JayC]

Here's some interesting images caught by the Google car.

Top 10 Moments Caught on Google Maps Street View - Urlesque