Monique_lean

I can see your house from here! - Memory Maps

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The first part of this, I am sure, will freak people out a bit.

  1. Go to Google Maps and pop in an address you know well.
  2. Click on the sattelite link on the upper right corner and zoom in..

Well, ok, the good old white house has some secutrity masking, but most places are wide open. (Yes, you can zoom in on Area 51).

Now, this kicked in earlier in the week. The moderator of MetaFilter grabbed the sattelite view of his home, and annotated it. This kicked off a meme of memory maps. It's, like, totally, the new thing.

Here's my memory map. If you view one of the images and mouse over, there are annotations.

Keen, eh?

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Posted on Apr. 8th, 2005 at 05:47 pm | | Leave a comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend

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[info]sydni_64

::googles parents' home::
::spots their home, the nearby church, and the train station down the street. and cars that are on the street.::

Umm... ok, yeah! That's pretty damn creepy!
Posted on Apr. 8th, 2005 10:22 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]yduras

It's not a real time image

If it makes you fele better, those aren't real-time sattelite-images. It's a composite of many photos takes over the past few years.
Posted on Apr. 9th, 2005 05:35 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]mitch37

*checks his place*

Right street, wrong house. I feel sorry for those folks when the DEA shows up.
Posted on Apr. 9th, 2005 12:57 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]mitch37

Edit: Looking at Manhattan, I would have missed the Empire State Building, if not for the HUGE SHADOW.
Posted on Apr. 9th, 2005 01:01 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]raisinbottom

These images are much better than the Terraserver pics, even ignoring the fact that these are color while Terraserver is b&w.
Neat thing is that the pictures look a lot like SimCity where you zoom all the way out.
Posted on Apr. 9th, 2005 02:36 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]glittergram

area 51

does it even have a street address?
Posted on Apr. 9th, 2005 03:21 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]yduras

Re: area 51

Area 51
Posted on Apr. 9th, 2005 05:32 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]captainmayday

My workplace was constructed almost 2 years ago, but the sattelite photo still shows forestland there. So these pictures are way old.
Posted on Apr. 11th, 2005 02:44 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]yduras

They are, indeed

These aren't real-time sattelite photos, they're a composite of a lot of images taken over the last few years.
Posted on Apr. 11th, 2005 02:58 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply