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hi, have you ever taken time on google earth to look up some familiar places? try looking for your own car , i did it ..... i dont know if this has been covered before on the BR but have a go.... cheers Z
Edited by Pugugly {P} on 10/02/2008 at 20:38
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It's probably the first thing most people look for as it gives an indication of just how old (or new) are the images of your area.
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Wife's is at home, I was out the day the sat passed over us, by various features we can tell it was within the last year.
However my car is in the car park of a company I used to run until a couple of years ago so the pics in that area are more out of date.
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My car can be clearly seen in my parking space at work, but it is a Citroen Xsara in Wicked Red that i sold in early 2003 !
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Ours are at least 10 years old as the house is still in its unrestored "glory"
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Not as far as I know. The house in London is though, although the place I go to in Sussex is just a disgraceful blur on GE, as was the biggest city in Nigeria, Lagos, last time I looked.
But an aerial photographer once got my Dyane while I was away in Africa parked outside the Sussex place, in a (successful) attempt to sell a couple of frames to my wife's family.
Edited by Lud on 10/02/2008 at 20:33
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Ours can be dated fairly precisely to an afternoon on late spring 2005. Wheat fields around village well grown, but still dark green. Kiddies climbing frame, which went at end of 2005, is still in situ.
Berlingo, acquired that March, clearly visible in drive. The Xantia rather more difficult to locate on the station car park where the number of free spaces suggest a Friday!!
Edited by Bromptonaut on 10/02/2008 at 20:45
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Mine isnt - or at least not where I can find it!
My old Renault was (but the image has been updated since), and my parents Focus is but none of the others.
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I can narrow ours down reasonably as all the cars are there but the Commer isn't, since it has always moved much less frequently then the cars it puts it in a fairly short range of dates in either 2002-2004 judging from the other cars which are there
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>>Ours are at least 10 years old as the house is still in its unrestored "glory"
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Yesterday I looked at the following site
www.zoopla.co.uk/
In my case it showed my road as it was about a year ago.
I have just tried it again and it has reverted to standard Google Earth of years ago. ??????
I showed the more recent image to my family so I know I am sane. :-)
You may find the site interesting if you want to know house selling prices
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My Dad's previous car the Blue Rover 400 is on the drive way.
My then Red Ford Ka is parked in a car park near my work place, judging by the the cars & the number of cars in the car park, the image must be taken on a Sunday morning during spring of 2004.
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Do I get the prize for the most out of date place?
The view of my parents' place is from 1994, and the area where I now live is just a load of fields. No cars in either.
Haven't succeeded in finding where I work yet!
Edit: Found it, also a good ten years out of date.
Edited by PoloGirl on 10/02/2008 at 22:05
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I found MSN mapping more up to date, and with much greater detail.
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Yes mine is at work as I usually park in the same place or one of several others, and it is in my no.1 spotmand there aren't many cars in the car park. My girlfriend works in the same place but she parks anywhere, and may or may not be there. I think our pics are about 2 years old.
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I think our pics are about 2 years old.
Mine is shown on more recent images from 4 different "panorama" "bird's-eye-views" views at
maps.live.com/
The zoom on the bird's eye feature is deceptive - it can actually zoom in far closer than first appears. Just type in your postcode, then select the "bird's eye" tab, and then keep zooming in until it won't zoom any more.
Then select the NSEW in turn to get all 4 views.
Edited by jbif on 10/02/2008 at 22:10
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jbif
>>Mine is shown on more recent images from 4 different "panorama" "bird's-eye-views" views at maps.live.com/
Thanks you have confirmed my sanity with your link BUT...
in my street....
The "aerial" view is the regular Google Earth one 4+ year old.
The birds eye view is from a much newer data base- MS Virtual Earth.
This is the source I saw yesterday and in my case is only about ONE /TWO YEARs old.
I do like the 4 panorama views.
What I still cannot get is the new database as an aerial view.
www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=3...2
Has "Graphic" evidence that the database is two years old for their area. :-)
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I find that "Google Maps" are more up to date and give better definition.
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No cars at all on the drive our outside the house.
The back garden has a bush that we removed the weekend after we moved in 5 years ago, so clearly it's a fairly old pic anyway.
Don't recognise any of the neighbours' cars either.
Cheers
DP
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The Bird's Eye view on
maps.live.com/
(which is something to do with Microsoft )is pretty nifty. You can rotate the angle of view. In my case, my current cars appear in the drive sometimes. Looks a couple of years old to me.
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I'm telling you, that is NOT my car parked on the double-yellow line to the front of my house.
As a point of interest, has anyone been prosecuted using satellite photographic evidence?
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There was a massive update recently of many parts of UK (Autumn 2007) - according to a bloke who sells Aerial photos that I was chatting to recently I had guessed that our house was last photographed in July 2006 - he looked it up on his computer and found it was July 12th. But the stuff takes a while from photograph to selling to agencies to putting on maps/Google earth/satnav etc
He also told me how to find date of photos on Google Earth
Go to "Layers" bottom left
Click on "Digital Globe coverage"
Click on various years (or all of them)
Zoom in on your house and you should see a coloured square (different colour for different years)
Zoom in further and a precise date will appear - that's the date it was photographed.
Don't forget that some areas are not satellite photos but aerial photos or even a combination of the two remote areas tend to be satellite hence lower resolution. Some areas much more recent than others - if you live out in the wilds (PG and PU???) then coverage may be fairly old - but also don't forget that it used to be that OS maps were only fully updated about (I think) every 20 years so Google Earth doesn't do too badly and it uses the same resources (I think) as the most up to date maps of an area.
By the way, I'm no expert and very willing to accept correction from those who really know!!
Phil
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PS
The
maps.live.com/
pictures linked above are about 4 years older than the Google Earth ones of our area and not such good definition since the update
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linked above are about 4 years older than the Google Earth ones of our area
Likewise here, Google earth images are the summer of 2006, where as the house does not exist on the maps.live images.
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Grainy lo-res image only, but the aforementioned bush in the back garden has gone, and there's a burgundy blob on the drive that could well be SWMBO's old Fiesta. I also recognise a couple of neighbours' cars (or colours in the appropriate places)
It's at least 6 months old, as the garden shed we installed in the back garden last Summer is not there! :-)
Cheers
DP
Edited by DP on 11/02/2008 at 08:42
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Ours are less than a year old. My car isn't there but my wife seems to be in the back garden with some guy.........
:)
Edited by Mazda-Man on 11/02/2008 at 09:13
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Forget about Google earth: how about this for accuracy:
www.sat-gps-locate.com/english/index.html
;-)
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Very good Billy.
Maps live is bang up to date for my mum and dad's house, but I still live in a field.
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Hey look BW, very droll and so on, good fun, but is it by clicking on these kind of links that I am getting increasing quantities of very carp spam? Naturally I always dump it without looking, but how is one to stop this stuff?
I bet there will be more tomorrow, none of it interesting, much of it obviously titled to catch the bored 30 year old not-too-bright element with a zigzag emotional life. .
I blame Billy Whizz and all his colleagues.
How do you get these jobs BW?
:o}
Oh, by the way, tried to download latest Google Earth to see if I could spot any of my recent cars, and there's some sort of problem according to my firewall. It seems to disapprove of my computer contacting GE for technical reasons. Should I trust it, or Billy Whizz, or Google Earth?
Don't tell me. I don't trust any of them.
Edited by Lud on 11/02/2008 at 23:57
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Just looked at mine and it would appear i must have been parking it at the time, because there's two images merged into one, both of them sort of fuzzy and ghostly and it makes the car look twice as long
the only puzzling thing though is cars on the main road nearby that are obviously travelling along are nice crisp clear images, so how come mine is fuzzy?
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what happened to all the pedestrians? are they air brushed out? you can see them on westminister bridge tho....
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I thought as much. Looking at ours there is still my girlfriends ex-boyfriends Citroen BX on the drive, so the image is 6+ years old.
He abandoned it there when they split up so we took the liberty of scrapping it for him.
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All I got was a small square with a red cross in it. What am I doing wrong?
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Westpig, your car probably happens to fall on a join between two images that have been tiled to make a continuous image. Because each image is 'square', and the earth's surface is not, then there will have to be an element of 'fudge' to make the two images fit. Probably.
Either that, or you were going really quickly :-)
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I just checked, and my Accord and GF's Ka are both clearly parked outside the back of our previous house in Lichfield. Spooky.
GF was very disappointed when Google Earth first came out - she couldn't see her car outside her previous place in Soton (one of the first places to have aerial maps not satellite). She cheered up immensely when she found it parked in her space on the Town Quay - she'd clearly been at work when the images were taken.
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but I still live in a field....
And after that expensive university education as well
- Make much of a living as a scarecrow these days PG ?? .......... ;0)
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so does the G really stand for Gummidge?
Edited by Webmaster on 13/02/2008 at 00:40
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When I use maps.live.com/ I can zoom right in to see my car in the drive. But when I try using Google Earth (and I have just updated to the latest version) eveything becomes very blurry long before I can see at "street level"
Or should I be doing something other than just zooming in?
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Hello Bobby G.When I use maps.live.com/ I can zoom right in to see my car in the drive
Maps.live is a Microsoft product and part of their "Virtual Earth" program. They use their own database and in some cases that is more recent than Google's. Usually, where Microsoft provide a "bird's eye view" tab, you will find that the zoom level can be much closer than Google Maps or Google earth.
The Maps Live Virtual earth has four close up detailed panorama bird's eye views which tend to have been shot at different times.
And, as I said before, the bird's eye view can be zoomed in beyond what at first seems the limit. It can then be viewed by enlarging the view further using the IE7 zoom button at the bottom right hand of your IE7 browser window. Note that the IE7 zoom just magnifies the picture - it does not give you better resolution.
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For my area maps live is well behind Google Earth. My house looks very new and the later development is still grassland. Probably taken late summer 2000, looks as though harvest is in and work has just started on small sand quarry - now exhausted and reinstated to farmland.
Can make out then neighbour's red Fiesta (though nearly all the cars look red!!) blob on right of our drive is probably a Citroen estate car, position suggests the wife's BX - then the family car.
Edited by Bromptonaut on 12/02/2008 at 20:51
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Live for Lichfield gives a view that isn't quite as good as Google. Saying that, you can still see that the imagery comes from last year, as this time my GF's car is home but I'm out somewhere..
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Couldn't find my car but found a great new feature on the US mapping. In certain cities - I tried Los Vegas, you can select street view. This gives you a ground level view down the street! Amazing!
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Scary. When I phoned a relative to say we'd got home safely after a long journey I was told not to bother as they could see from Google that we were already home!
Oh. Some people don't get technology.....
Simon
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I see my x-wife is now driving a mini. Interesting.
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