I just looked my address up and it is sort of eerie. The photo is of my house shortly after I bought it almost four years ago - the garden isn’t done but the fence is up, still has the nasty old concrete porch, the dead ash tree is still in the front yard and my old truck is in the driveway (I can even read the bumper sticker on it.). The house looks quite shabby - it was definitely a "fixer-upper"when I bought it - and it’s WAY better now! Honest!
The google maps link is very glitchy otherwise I’d link to it. I just googled my actual address and chose maps/street view.
How recent is the google maps image of your house?
It used to show the house when it was in really run down right after we bought it. Now the photo is fairly recent, I’m actually in my car in the driveway about to back out in the photo.
The street view of the homes on my street are at least two years old. A new home has been added since then. Not much detail of my home as I live in a senior mobile home park which the camera didn’t enter to record.
My address’ street view is dated Aug 2011. It’s in the black box below the address.
That looks about right. A tree I planted in 2009 was still short in 2011. It’s a couple feet taller now. My van is in the driveway. Indicating that I was at home when they came by.
They must use a weird lens. My house looks like it’s 80 feet from the street. My yard looks really deep. Actually I have a normal house setback. I think its about 40 to 45 feet?
Mine is from the middle of 2011. The house is pretty much the same, but my mother’s car is still parked in the driveway. She had to give up driving and sold it several years ago.
So is mine, which is about two years before I moved in. Looks basically the same, except that two numbers of the building’s address sign have since fallen off.
Also, Google’s photo was apparently taken on street cleaning day, so the total lack of parked cars looks oddly out of place. :eek:
Ah! Thanks! I now see the “black box” address - July 2011.
I bought this place in August 2010 and it’s actually quite gratifying to see how many improvements I’ve made since then.
I’ve seen the google cars driving around and I think the reason your house (mine also) seems set way back is because the shot is taken from 10-20 feet above a normal POV - the cameras are roof-mounted.
Mine shows my neighbor’s driveway. If you click one notch up the street, then you can see my house, taken August of 2013. They blurred the license plates of the cars in my driveway and some of the windows. They left the bathroom window un-blurred but blurred out the bricks down and to the left of it, above the bushes. I don’t know what they thought was hiding in the flower bed.
I remember looking about a year ago or so and they didn’t have a street view of my road.
It’s an older picture from before when I lived here (it’s from September 2007). The siding on the house and the roof are different and the two big trees in the lawn are both still there.
Mine is from this February, so five months ago–but I’m on major street. It makes me wonder: How often do they go by? Do they go by more often on some streets?
Mine’s from July 2011. Not much has changed. They need to re-plant the bushes in front of the center fence, this winter killed some of them and the garden service pulled them out but didn’t re-plant. It definitely looked nicer in 2011.
They do not come up this street, but the street view of my brother’s place I think still shows my brother leaning on the bed of one of his pickups. Blurred face, of course, but unmistakably him. Any the camera has a big dark patch on the lens, so I like to say he had been throwing dirt clods at it.
Weird… I checked my previous apartment and they haven’t updated the photos since 2007, which means you can still see my old car parked out front. This car broke down and was junked years ago.
At my current place it’s from 2011, before we moved in. There are fewer bikes locked to the fence, but otherwise looks pretty much the same.
Street view didn’t come down our little road. But even if they did, our house is difficult to see from the road out front due to the slope of the lot. It’s a little more visible from the side street.
The latest overhead shot is recent because I can see the deck we put in last spring. Mostly, tho, it’s just treetops and a flash of white from our pickup parked next to the side fence.
