Google is the most incredible thing that the world has ever seen. From the best search engine to GMail to all the many extensions it provides for free that we take for granted... now they've just gone too damned far. It is the Google Maps Beta... and it is fucking amazing!

You just go to http://maps.google.com and type in the location (my structure is simple: "# streetname streettype town state" such as "1111 lmao ave brooklyn ny" just like that). Then it'll make a map and point the location, from there you can zoom in, check out a satellite photo and see the actual house and even get driving directions right on the satellite image, etc! (eat that, MapQuest). They use military satellites I'm sure... though the images are a little dated (construction that's been completed for a while is still visible in certain areas according to Pete's relatives...). It is absolutely incredible though, I can see my house and you can actually see Pete's garage and almost his mother's car in the driveway. I love it.

I wasn't able to find Woody's house though, there's no satellite images for his region (hence the beta)... but I'm pretty sure all of New Jersey is mapped out because I found everything I wanted! You can even see how much of a dump Staten Island is (I went to the harbor with Leigh until like 1AM tonight and we sat right across from Staten Island with just the big ol' ocean in between... NYC's lights are crazy bright and some fireworks actually went off in random locations, too, heh... so anyway yeah its fun to come home from that and look at the satellite images of where I was and such). Mind you I don't live near there, but where I was tonight was close so yeah. What you see in my photo is Carteret, New Jersey.

ANYWAY ITS LATE SO I'LL JUST GET TO IT. HERE'S THE SATELLITE IMAGE OF MY HOUSE, WORKPLACE AND SCHOOL. I circled everything in colors to make it more clear, too;


Carteret, New Jersey
Green: My house (didn't know that was so circular).
Orange: Shop Rite (workplace/grocery store).
Blue: Carteret High School (learning place).
Top-Right: Do you know what those are? We're a prime target; it is definitely kind of scary seeing all of those there.

I'm sorry the image is so big, so what if the forum stretches... I want everyone to see the image without clicking a damn link thanks to buggy InfoPop. Enjoy playing with Google Maps and I hope you guys can find your homes, too... frankly I'm in love with this shit. If you don't care: what a shame. Oh and I don't know if this is for other continents or even for Canada, you never know until you try (I don't really know the address structure for other countries). Seeing my own and my friend's houses is just... too cool... for words... really I hope everyone who can enjoy this, does.

Wow that is a cool link. It works for a lot of places but the zoom is not as good. You must live in an area that needs constant surveilance (sp) hehe. I could get road maps of the hick town I live in though.

That is pretty dang cool.
I have been using google maps for a wile now, but never tried that Satalite image


There is my house.
What I am psyched about is that I always had a hard time finding goot satalite photos for planet textures etc in photoshop.
bam here we go.

American cities are so funny. If you'd take a look on russian ones from space you'd laugh a lot. They are so disorderly

Pencil there is a blackhole in the earth where you live

quote:

Originally posted by Krackhead:
Pencil there is a blackhole in the earth where you live

Yeah, watch your step

ooo,

krack is capping on your moma pencil...

LOL!!

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.637382,-118.082020&sp...9,0.007918&t=k&hl=en - Oops?

lol where is that?
That is the crappiest imaging.
I zoomed out and it looked like it was a patchwork quilt.
And there was a bunch of clouds and stuf..
sad...

Someguy claimed to find Area-51 on Google maps.

SuMGuY?

Where?

quote:

Originally posted by POKRISHKA:

quote:

Originally posted by Krackhead:
Pencil there is a blackhole in the earth where you live

Yeah, watch your step

Bite my ass; that's a lake (lold).

Socket, your town is so ... similar! Is that what they call a cul-de-sac? Pretty much everyone around there lives in a dead end... we don't do that 'round here, no sir.



[/playa hatin']

I wish I had zoom detail as close as your guys's images. Where are all your trees? Do you all live in deserts or something? I have been over my land in a plane and it seemed like all the houses were in forests, because almost all our roads have trees on either side which overlap the asphalt. Your lands look so ..... barren.
Plant somes trees!!! And I don't even like the smell of petchulie!!!

Well mine is a fairly new community (9rs old)
and they cleared out all the trees for development.
CO doesn't really have that many trees anyway cept in the mountians. Otherwise it is natrually plains.
WE have litterally hundreds of trees and bushes in our back yard.

Im not sure when that sat image was taken, but it looks old. Not much grown up around there. There is a lot more now.


lold pencil
the cul-de-sac rules all

Lol pencil's neighborhood looks so confusing. When i do a search for my house. i cannot spot which one it is. big blurry image becuase of TOO many trees I think

here is the dude that found area 51?

Area 51