Landed in the driveway. Apparently the windstorm that blew down my back fence Monday has been undone, which is nice. I think I’ll let the dogs run around for a while.
Piece of cake
I ended up about half-way between Bakersfield and LA, so not too bad, considering…
I moved my mouse a little, I would have been off by about 1-2 miles otherwise.
The Op said as his final line: “Can you descend directly home without having to zoom back out or drag the map?”
So moving your mouse for the next mouseclick would appear to be allowed.
My home is near a particularly obvious part of Lake Ontario, so I could do this pretty easy.
On second thought, you may be right. It’s relatively easy to descend directly if you’re aiming for New York City: just shoot for the western tip of Long Island, which is visible from the link in the OP. If you’re aiming for something inland, though, you’re probably going to miss by a couple hundred miles. I tried going for my college campus in Albany, NY and wound up in northern Pennsylvania. Making adjustments on the way down, however, I was able to splash down in the giant fountain in the center of campus.
Yes, you can move the mouse, as described by the OP in post #3 “(so you can tweak the destination just by moving the mouse in between zooms)”
Well, that changes things - I guess I won’t have to swim the lake after all, just a 10 mile walk.
Shouldn’t this be in the game room?
I must have the wrong aliens, because I keep landing here.
Had no problem finding my apartment complex in Tampa, in fact, I landed in front of my door. Then I tried doing it with my parent’s house in Cleveland, OH. I ended up in Erie, PA. That’s a hell of a walk back to my mom’s.
If you don’t readjust then Google Maps seems to go off course. If I centre the map over southern England at the furthest zoomed-out level, and then zoom all the way in using the slider, I end up near Charleville in northern France. Still, at least I’ll be able to pick up some champagne on the way home.
I landed a 20 min walk from home.
I probably would’ve landed a whole lot closer if my neighbour’s screamingly yellow car had been parked up front when the satellite shot was taken, where it is at just about any given time of day or night. It’s a particularly obnoxious shade of bright yellow, which I’m convinced is visible from orbit.
I made it to 4 miles away - Lawrence and Clark Street. Living on the northern edge of Chicago helps - Lake Michigan is a great landmark.
Man, that was a lot harder than I would’ve thought. I’m extremely familiar with Austin landmarks but hadn’t realized how small they are compared with some other Texas sites. I was way the heck off.
Finding your home is easy. Nuking it is the hard part.
Google Maps. It’s the only way to be sure.
I did it. But I have the advantage that I have a large bridge over a major river near my house that I could use as a landmark.
I was off by 60 miles. Couldn’t find a secondary landmark that I was looking for. I can do it now if Kodos or Kang want to swing by.
No problem. Right in my patio even with poor resolution. I live on a fairly distinctive promontory 3 blocks from the beach on the only cement (noticeably white) street in my neighborhood. The street is only two blocks long. The California coast is distinctively south facing here with several prominent promontories and the big identifying factor of the Channel Islands just due south.
Bah! Google map keeps telling me I can’t zoom in that close.
I guess I just have to jump ship with a parachute some 2 km over town and hope I don’t land in someones backyard full of rabid dogs.
I got to the right region pretty easily by heading in just on the western edge of the Appalachians about even with the top of the Chesapeake Bay. Zeroing in from there was a little tricky, but I finally spotted the Ohio and found Pittsburgh, and headed just south of there. Ended up right over my house.