Google Maps


type in someplace, willow springs international raceway for example.

or your home address. then zoom all the way in.

Freaky.

Or Iraq.

Or LAX

Or Burning Man

Or Nurenburgring

Or Stuttgart

Its freaking cooooooooooool.


correction, its only US here.

heres the article

wired article

Wow that's cool, Just checked out my house, the pictures are at least 1 year old. I wonder how often theyre updated?

Damn, if you could zoom in ONE more time I bet you could see my 914 on jack stands

They are pretty recent pictures. My high school is post construction, which means its within the last 2 years.

That is TOO cool!!!

Very Cool!
I love maps.

Yeah, they are not that current, I typed in my address and they show the Ikea center still under construction. Its been done for about a year now. It's still pretty cool.

some areas you can get closer than others....

Pic of the farm and my private lake...

oops....mostly lake in that one

Here's my MapQuest from last year.

Check out my yellow teener in the driveway.

now it would be really cool if you could type in "all 914s parked in driveways" and it searches and gives you maps of all 914s in the US that were parked in driveways that day ...

Andy

Another one is terraserver.microsoft.com

i checked all the usual AX venue places, no luck

but look what i found at candlestick park ... any 49er fans around here ???

Dang,
All our neighbors have pools except us....

No new garage in that picture.

Dan
brickmaster, sheetrocker, framer, electrician, plumber...

Take a trip:

Google Sightseeing

Image are definitely over a year old. There's no garage at my house.

you can see on the passaic river, all the crew boats! i wouldnt be suprised if this was me in high school

looks like a centipede lol

type in Miles Hendrix

Did you guys check out area 51? This is just outside north of Vegas. Can anyone explain what the triangle with the circles is?

There is a very big nudist resort just North of Tampa. But I couldn't see anyone playing volleyball.

New York City is cool.

Paul

I was looking at this a few weeks ago. Very cool. I love how you can switch back and forth between the maps and satellite images and you get the exact same view - but with the maps you get the street names.

I looked up my work, and noticed that the parking lot was empty - so I figured it must have been taken on a weekend. I guess Andy's pic of Candlestick confirmed that. Would'a been cool if GGR was having an autocross that day.

Here's my house. I didn't even know the dog park that I live next to had trails in the shape of a dog bone until I saw this picture. Ha Ha.

Demick

Here's our Alameda autocross site. Could almost use this to make course maps!

Demick

Name that plane.

Big Bad B-2

Hey Demmick, you have the largest yard in your neighborhood. Must be nice. Lots of storage for 914 parts and cars.

When that came out a few weeks ago, that's all we did all day...Cool stuff.

QUOTE (skline @ Apr 14 2005, 07:55 AM)

Hey Demmick, you have the largest yard in your neighborhood. Must be nice. Lots of storage for 914 parts and cars.

Hey Scott. Yes, I do have the largest lot in the neighborhood. But unfortunately there is no real way to get vehicle access to the back yard - which means no parts cars. Come to think of it, that's probably a good thing!

Demick

Yup! There's my parts car behind the house.

QUOTE

Could almost use this to make course maps!

terraserver will get WAY closer than Google. I like the way Google works better, but I'm betting terraserver would get close enough to make your course map. If you use the address search method, choose the "Urban areas 2002" if available (or newest option).

Here's the Space Needle:

No joke guys. Here it is!

still no AX in action, but we left a few tracks ...

Golden Gate Fields:

Candle Stick Park

Marina

note how old that pic is, not just because it's black/white but also the whole area around the entrance to the site looks completely different now ...
i guess it has been used for AX for quite a while!

The privacy rights people are going nuts over this and homeland defense is not happy. I've heard this may come down. Not probable, but I deal with aerial photography and electronic data distribution in my job and there are forces out there to make everything available and some to restrict alot of stuff. This is a developing technology. Cool though, huh?
Old Dad
INDY

My 914 is also parked in my driveway in the Google sat view. It's been parked around the corner for weeks, so the photo has to be reasonably old. My wife's car isn't next to it, so I'll bet this was taken on a Saturday morning, as it's obviously a weekend from the office lots, yet she's pretty much always at home on the weekend except for Sat. morning. No Type 3 visible, so it's at least four months old.

As for Terraview "getting closer", I think they use aircraft shots, not sat photos, at least for the closest resolution views. The Google photos look to be about 0.5m resolution, given a 914 looks like three colored blobs: hood, black top, trunklid.

QUOTE (indydad @ Apr 14 2005, 10:47 AM)

The privacy rights people are going nuts over this and homeland defense is not happy. I've heard this may come down. Not probable, but I deal with aerial photography and electronic data distribution in my job and there are forces out there to make everything available and some to restrict alot of stuff. This is a developing technology. Cool though, huh? Old Dad INDY

It's not just Google, as pointed out previously. Mapquest and Microsoft also have their own versions. Microsoft's version has been out for years, and uses publicly available USGS images. If Homeland Security is worried about this, they'll need to shut down the USGS, or substantially restrict what it publishes. Even that won't stop it, as there are non-US firms providing this stuff, too. SpotImage, in France, has been provided these images for quite some time now, and are hardly subject to US governmental control.

Too cool!

Andy - that shot at Candlestick showing all of the tracks was taken less than a week after the GGR autocross school - that's why there are so many different overlapping tracks rather than just one as you would expect from an autox course.

Since we are on the subject, I like Terraserver better. these are 1 meter resolution pictures! Pretty amazing for a satallite photo. Here is a picture of Lambeau Field with my childhood home circled! (had to give the home of ght Packers equal time since some one posted "the Stick".

GO PACK!

Cool, but scary.
Must be Scary Cool then.