# Google Maps is going to re-image your property in a month... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 3, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-is-going-to-re-image-your-property-in-a-month/623956 "2012-06-03T18:15:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-is-going-to-re-image-your-property-in-a-month/623956/1 "2012-06-03T18:15:52Z")
Suppose you find out Google will be updating their image for your area for Google Earth/Google Maps one month from now. It’ll have higher resolution, where one pixel will equal 6 inches of your property. Now’s your opportunity to say the internet equivalent of _“Kilroy was here.”_ What would you do, given that amount time? ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-is-going-to-re-image-your-property-in-a-month/623956/2 "2012-06-03T18:17:26Z")
Well, I’d darn sure spruce up my yard. Maybe plant some flowers in that toilet on the front lawn. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-is-going-to-re-image-your-property-in-a-month/623956/3 "2012-06-03T18:18:14Z")
> [@TheChileanBlob](#): > > Well, I’d darn sure spruce up my yard. Maybe plant some flowers on that toilet on the front lawn. It’s sure to have some great fertilizer. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-is-going-to-re-image-your-property-in-a-month/623956/4 "2012-06-03T18:23:53Z")
Get rid of the dead cars and extra refrigerators outside, and fill in the sunken graves. I’d also buy a can of red paint and put “HI MOM” on the roof. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-is-going-to-re-image-your-property-in-a-month/623956/5 "2012-06-03T18:24:22Z")
If I had the time and energy, I think I’d use poster paint to paint a birds-eye view peering into the interior of my house, using the shingles as a pixel grid, making it appear as if my home had no roof. Of course, I’d add unsettling goings-on in each room, like murdered bodies and lots of blood or something. Or perhaps try to replicate the board game layout of Clue™, with Colonel Mustard killing Mrs. Peacock with the Candle Stick in the Library. Meanwhile all the other guests are enjoying dinner, but Professer Plum is taking a shit in the bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-is-going-to-re-image-your-property-in-a-month/623956/6 "2012-06-03T18:27:23Z")
I would rent as many exotic animals as I could and stake them out in the yard so as to have nothing but animal backs to see from above. The “street view” ought to be slick as well. Lions, giraffes, camels, wildebeests, gnus, hippos, rhinos, yaks, polar bears, and a few zebras. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-is-going-to-re-image-your-property-in-a-month/623956/7 "2012-06-03T18:28:03Z")
Awesomely hilarious. Just please try to add yourself constructing some sort of Ark in your backyard. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-is-going-to-re-image-your-property-in-a-month/623956/8 "2012-06-03T18:31:17Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > I would rent as many exotic animals as I could and stake them out in the yard so as to have nothing but animal backs to see from above. The “street view” ought to be slick as well. Lions, giraffes, camels, wildebeests, gnus, hippos, rhinos, yaks, polar bears, and a few zebras. Not quite the same, but [this](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=4935+North+Newhall+Street,+Whitefish+Bay,+WI&hl=en&ll=43.106425,-87.889756&spn=0.008068,0.021136&sll=43.106413,-87.889775&layer=c&cbp=13,83.09,,0,10.77&cbll=43.106425,-87.889756&hnear=4935+N+Newhall+St,+Whitefish+Bay,+Wisconsin+53217&t=h&z=16&panoid=DB4_4DZgjBy-J_euq7gRuA) lives about two blocks from my parents house. By not quite the same, I mean it’s fake and looks like that 24/7/365. A Giraffe is a bit out of place in a Wisconsin winter. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-is-going-to-re-image-your-property-in-a-month/623956/9 "2012-06-03T18:43:21Z")
That damn thing’s gonna eat all the hastas. Quick, shoot it! ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-is-going-to-re-image-your-property-in-a-month/623956/10 "2012-06-03T18:50:44Z")
Put a couple of mannequins having sex on the roof. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-is-going-to-re-image-your-property-in-a-month/623956/11 "2012-06-03T18:52:54Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Put a couple of mannequins having sex on the roof. Or, just have crazy sex on the roof! ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-is-going-to-re-image-your-property-in-a-month/623956/12 "2012-06-03T18:53:14Z")
The only sensible thing to do is cover our entire 3 acres with pink silk. If it works for Christo… ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-is-going-to-re-image-your-property-in-a-month/623956/13 "2012-06-03T18:57:37Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Or perhaps try to replicate the board game layout of Clue™, with Colonel Mustard killing Mrs. Peacock with the Candle Stick in the Library. Meanwhile all the other guests are enjoying dinner, but Professer Plum is taking a shit in the bathroom. This. I vote for this one. I love it. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-is-going-to-re-image-your-property-in-a-month/623956/14 "2012-06-03T19:05:36Z")
• dye your lawn purple. • paint a forced perspective illusion of a roller coaster weaving in and out of your house and yard. • Paint [this](http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/), or [this](http://www.headwaysoftware.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/chris.headwaysoftware.com/photos/uncategorized/escher_ascending_cropped_1.jpg) on your roof. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-is-going-to-re-image-your-property-in-a-month/623956/15 "2012-06-03T19:06:41Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > This. > > I vote for this one. > > I love it. > ~VOW I originally though of Plum masturbating in the bathroom, but then thought, _too far?_ ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-is-going-to-re-image-your-property-in-a-month/623956/16 "2012-06-03T19:16:10Z")
Work with pyrotechnic professionals and the fire marshal to stage portions of your roof and property to be on fire. Also a stuntman running from the front door, on fire. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-is-going-to-re-image-your-property-in-a-month/623956/17 "2012-06-03T19:23:32Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > I would rent as many exotic animals as I could and stake them out in the yard so as to have nothing but animal backs to see from above. The “street view” ought to be slick as well. Lions, giraffes, camels, wildebeests, gnus, hippos, rhinos, yaks, polar bears, and a few zebras. I imagine it’d be pretty tough to get a license for that. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-is-going-to-re-image-your-property-in-a-month/623956/18 "2012-06-03T19:24:35Z")
Stake a parachute over the yard and paint on it, “IMAGE REMOVED BY WITNESS PROTECTION AGENCY.” ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-is-going-to-re-image-your-property-in-a-month/623956/19 "2012-06-03T19:52:37Z")
Oh! Paint \<-----With Stupid-----\> on my roof. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-is-going-to-re-image-your-property-in-a-month/623956/20 "2012-06-03T20:01:14Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > I imagine it’d be pretty tough to get a license for that. No tougher than getting an advance warning from Google, I suspect. But I won’t be doing that rental before that advance warning comes. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-maps-is-going-to-re-image-your-property-in-a-month/623956.md?page=2)