Where do you live- satellite style

Thought this thread by shn was too cool to just let go.

Below is the house I grew up in. It is a 3 story redbrick with a slate-tile roof built in 1906.
The view is of the side door, which is what I used.

http://img209.exs.cx/img209/7237/sideviewadd2vn.th.jpg


Next is a pulled back view.

The "y" shows a large bowl shaped area where we played football. It is a drained pond used in the St. Louis World Fair of 1904.

The circled house, just a block up, is that of Marlon Perkins. Older members may remember him as host of Mutual of Omahas' Wild Kingdom.

http://www.wildkingdom.com/images/hi...arlinchimp.jpg

http://img111.exs.cx/img111/1328/add8ec.th.jpg

Too bad the photos were taken in the winter, but I guess in the summer, all you would see is green treetops.

Well....where I'm living doesn't have any entry in that program. Maybe if you want to see a view of the trees and a lake from thousands of feet in the air... ;)

I don't remember the address of the house I grew up in...

:shuriken:

Shn covered up the road name in her photo, but if you plug in her coordinates you find that she grew up a few hundred miles west of me in Kansas.

Unless you are in a big city or metropolitan area of one, or not in the US, you may not get a great image

Or, if you live in Australia like I do, you'll get nothing but a big green blur, even if you reside in the heart of the Sydney CBD.

I still don't see what's so interesting about blurry American rooftops anyway.

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Originally Posted by uNz[i]

Or, if you live in Australia like I do, you'll get nothing but a big green blur, even if you reside in the heart of the Sydney CBD.

I still don't see what's so interesting about blurry American rooftops anyway.

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If you don't care then don't post. Otherwise you just seem jealous. Just like the first time you said the exact same thing.

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Wow... blurry photos of american rooftops.

That's almost interesting...

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It is lots of fun and I have only posted the tip of the iceberg.

Am I jealous? Or are you arrogant? It's a matter of perspective.

Even if I live in Sydney (Australia's most populated city), as far as the folks in the good ol' USofA are concerned, the entire place is nothing but a huge grass paddock.

What is right with this picture? :frusty:

It won't find any of my adressess in England :(

www.multimap.com

its done with planes not satalites. i think :unsure:

pwnd :blushing:

well it found my addresses, but didn't show any buildings there :\

but the coolest part was the whole zoom thing it did after you click "Go"

it was like the old "Feature Presentation" intro they used to do on HBO movies!! :D

open

The red dot indicates where my house is. :D

http://img233.exs.cx/img233/5417/untitled1copy5dp.jpg

http://img168.exs.cx/img168/2964/aerial0fm.jpg

Why`s there no sheep in your photo dave. :whistling

there might be some sheep or cows a few clicks north. *goes to check*

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...oab/house2.jpg

You can see the country park in the top right of the pic. Straight across from where I stay. :)

looks unreal :blink:

And the local football stadium. :lol:

http://img70.exs.cx/img70/7126/untitled1copy1ys.jpg

Primary School centre top. Those white tower blocks are now gone. Demolished last year. :) There are deer in the field just across the river. Very picter skew. :)

is that an aerial photo though? it looks like a model

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Originally Posted by TheDave

is that an aerial photo though? it looks like a model

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Yes taken about three years ago. Got it 'free' through the Daily Mail. :)

teh rovers ground :01:
http://img172.exs.cx/img172/7224/x44...500h3106te.jpg

i had that cd from the daily mail but lost it :(

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Originally Posted by Mr JP Fugley

That's the most ridiculous thing I've read in ages.

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You obviously don't do much reading then. Look to the mote in thine own eye.

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Originally Posted by Mr JP Fugley

Does the USA have to pamper to everyone now. If other countries want to do this then they can use their own satelittes.

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Now who's being rediculous? I'm not asking to be pampered, far from it.

The US has satellite images of every landmass on the planet. That is a commonly known fact.
It would be nice for folks in the US to realise there is real geography beyond thier own borders.
Thanks to the USA's huge repository of satellite data, this ideal could be easily accomplished.
It would also be good if the geography was to be depicted accurately.

Why? Because this isn't the first time my part of the world has been misrepresented by US resources.

Case in point: A geography textbook used in Chicago's schools contained a wildly innaccurate picture of the Australian continent.
Nearly all of the western and south coastlines of the Aussie mainland were nothing like the real thing. Tasmania had been completely left out.
The erroneous book was used for nearly 20 years before an Australian teacher working in Chicago discovered and reported the errors.

Does misleading and miseducating students sound like a good idea to you?
Because thats exactly what that satellite pic program is doing.

i see now, it's teaching american students that australia is a big green blob.

and again, it's not satalite it's planes

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Originally Posted by TheDave

it's not satalite it's planes

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I wonder if they get double time for taking these photos on sundays. :blink:

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Originally Posted by TheDave

i see now, it's teaching american students that australia is a big green blob.

and again, it's not satalite it's planes

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No, its teaching American students that nothing of any worth exists outside of the USA.

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Originally Posted by enoughfakefiles

I wonder if they get double time for taking these photos on sundays. :blink:

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tis not a live feed :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by TheDave

tis not a live feed :rolleyes:

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Roger that..... :unsure:

http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/intell...ets/pilots.jpg

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Originally Posted by uNz[i]

No, its teaching American students that nothing of any worth exists outside of the USA.

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Now, now, now.
Most Americans could not name all 50 states, much less find them on a map, so asking them to be aware of discrepancies in the map of your continent is asking a bit much, don't you think?

To our credit, most Americans are aware that your toilets flush counterclockwise, you ride kangaroos and all your parents were deported English criminals.
Any other pertinent facts we should be aware of?


What the hell am I doing?
It's Sunday.
I should be at Wal-Mart....

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Originally Posted by clocker

you ride kangaroos

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So that is what that line in the song is about. 'tie me kangaroo down sport' :lol: :lol:

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Originally Posted by bigboab

So that is what that line in the song is about. 'tie me kangaroo down sport' :lol: :lol:

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Thanks for reminding me.
Rolf Harris is your Minister of Culture.

See?
I know quite a bit about Australia actually.



I'll grab me barbie and leave now...

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Originally Posted by clocker

Thanks for reminding me.
Rolf Harris is your Minister of Culture.

See?
I know quite a bit about Australia actually.



I'll grab me barbie and leave now...

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Which part of Australia do you think that Scotland is in?
:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by clocker

Now, now, now.
Most Americans could not name all 50 states, much less find them on a map, so asking them to be aware of discrepancies in the map of your continent is asking a bit much, don't you think?

To our credit, most Americans are aware that your toilets flush counterclockwise, you ride kangaroos and all your parents were deported English criminals.
Any other pertinent facts we should be aware of?

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Well there are a couple of points I feel I should clarify.

1. It was actually my great great great grandparents who were deported English criminals.
It was England's loss too. You get a much better class of thug downunder.

2. We may use kangaroos for sparring partners during boxing practice, but we certainly do not ride them.

3. The toilet flushing thing is correct. But does it really matter in the grand scheme of things?

Oh... and Rolf Harris was actually from the UK.
He just spent his holidays here, and the Brits took every opportunity to deny responsibility. So the legend grew...

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Originally Posted by bigboab

Which part of Australia do you think that Scotland is in?
:rolleyes:

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Clocker obviously does`nt know as much as he`d thought. :lol: :lol:

PEOPLE ARE SPYING ON US !!

*wraps herself in foil so they cant read her thoughts*

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Originally Posted by gemby!

PEOPLE ARE SPYING ON US !!

*wraps herself in foil so they cant read her thoughts*

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They might be able to read your thoughts ... but can they understand them? :ph34r:

Doesn't seem to work for canada much. :(
My town is just a green blur, and so is half of toronto. :(

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...7/tehshire.bmp


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Originally Posted by Biggles

They might be able to read your thoughts ... but can they understand them? :ph34r:

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Does that mean i can take the foil off..... ? :w00t: