I thought of this when reading the thread about selling aerial photos of people’s houses. I think it would be interesting to see aerial photos of Dopers’ various neighborhoods.
So, for the Google Maps uninitiated, here is what I am suggesting:
Navigate to the area where you live, and choose “Satellite” in the upper right. Bad luck if your area’s not covered in high-res… maybe another site like Terraserver has something better for you to use.
Just above that button, click “Link to this page”.
Copy the URL from the browser and paste it here.
Just to clarify for privacy’s sake, I’m not suggesting that you zoom way in on your house and point it out with big red arrows, but rather the general vicinity. And FYI, whatever you type in the search box will still be there in the link you create, so don’t search for your exact address if you don’t want everyone to see it!
To start off, here’s mine. I’m somewhere within this part of Madison, Wisconsin. (Just like a gazillion other university students.)
I’m in the apartments in the NorthWest corner of theintersection. This picture appears to be a couple years old–the SouthEast corner is now a Target and lightrail station. Also, it looks like a winter photo because it’s not that gray here.
Dude! You live there? My sister, her worthless husband and their 3 kids live in that town.
Here’s me See the partially built subdivision on the west side of the diagonal road? Well that’s been finished for about 2 years, and I live in the one you can’t see, on the East side of the road. My backyard looks out onto Plainfield Rd., about 100 yards into what is in this picture, farm fields. Scroll north, you see a high school and some parking lots, that’s where I work, you can’t see them here, but if they took the pictures today, you’d see about 100 buses and a small gray-roofed building. That’s me.
And you two Dorjan and elmwood…The Bus Kid’s in Berea right now, sweating through a final. Would ya consider dropping by with a caramel macchiato for her?
I’m here. You can see the 3 cars parked in front of the barn dead center of the picture, the house is in the trees above the carport which is above the barn.
I live in the colourful but blurry bit. The grey blob just near the point of the indicator is the parking lot of the plaza that centres our neighbourhood of 1950s-era low- and medium-rise apartment buildings. From that parking lot, I can see the tops of the Wall-O-Condos that have grown up along the lakeshore, a short bus and streetcar ride away. If I go westwards along Berry Rd, I go uphill, and at the top of the hill I have an excellent view of the downtown skyline.
Note that I am a few blocks from the beautiful valley of the Humber River, but also a few blocks from the sewage-treatment plant, the thing with the circles in the more detailed part just southeast of the indicator.
Just south of the sewage-treatment plant are the roads and railways that line the lakeshore, and just south of those, almost on the beach, are the condos–and next to the railway, a large commercial bakery. Between that, the lake, and the sewage-treatment plant, I never know what I’m going to smell when I step outside. Could be chocolate-chip cookies. Could be something else…
