[clue-tech] Google Maps

[Peter Motykowski]

Nate Duehr wrote:
> Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> 
>>Hmm.  It works with my address.
> 
> 
> Heh, yeah... once I "navigated" over to my house, I see that the image
> data is 1 ft resolution, and it says it was taken April of 2002.
> 
> Since my Jeep's in the driveway, and factoring in the angle and length
> of the shadow from the 28' fir tree in my front yard, I'd say it's
> around 10AM on a weekend day.  (Otherwise the Jeep probably wouldn't be
> there.)
> 
> Interesting stuff.
> 
> Any areas of Denver have better than 1' resolution?  You don't have to
> give your address, just curious if you guys are able to zoom to the
> highest setting on the little bars on the right.  The data for my house
> says that's too far, and will only go to the next-to-last zoom point.
> 
> I remember the power company coming and cutting back all the trees from
> the overhead powerlines that spring, and can see in the photo how far my
> back trees were encroaching on the power lines prior to that.  Neat.
> 
> There's newer data (2004) but it is only 2' resolution and doesn't look
> as good.  Pretty blurry.
> 
> Toys.  Cool.
> 
> Nate 

I get 1' resolution over my neighborhood.  Also, you can tweak the URL 
to only include latitude and longitude for obscuring the address used to 
render the map.

http://tinyurl.com/7qslu

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