Both Google maps and Zillo have my house on the wrong side of the street.
Zillo gives a nice shot of the local High School and a neighbors house but
not mine. Live.Local.com gives nice fly by aerial pics with good enough
resolution to see antennas.
Dan
W8CAR
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604" <faunt@panix.com>
To: <k0rc@pclink.com>
Cc: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Interesting URL
> That's interesting. That's the first map I've seen that gets the
> location correct, instead of at the other end of the block.
>
> However, this one is very low-resolution compared to Google Earth,
> where you can see the shadows of the roof tower, beam and satellite
> array.
>
> 73, doug
>
> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Robert_Chudek_-_K=D8RC?= <k0rc@citlink.net>
> Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 08:53:11 -0500
>
> Thanks Steve,
>
> Yeah, the photo of my property has better resolution than Google. It
> appears the dollar figure is based on 2-year old county tax records.
>
> 73 de Bob - K0RC in MN
>
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 05:25:38 -0700 (PDT)
> From: GALE STEWARD <k3nd@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Interesting URL
> To: towertalk reflector <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Message-ID: <20061005122538.15671.qmail@web50702.mail.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>
> Here's another site. You type in the address and zip
> code and it comes up with an ariel pic. Since it's
> basically a real estate site, it shows the priced of
> the property (based on ?). The arial shots are pretty
> good and is the pix are current, at least within the
> last two years or so at my QTH.
>
> 73, Stew K3ND
>
> http://www.zillow.com
>
>
> --- Robert Chudek - K?RC <k0rc@citlink.net> wrote:
>
> > Gene,
> >
> > I checked my QTH and I'm not there!!! :-) The
> > aerial scan used for my area is over 15 years old.
> > But it's interesting to see what the property looked
> > like prior to being developed.
> >
> > I use Google Earth. Their satellite images are more
> > up to date and the controls allow you to "fly" along
> > a route. If you haven't see Google Earth, check it
> > out. http://earth.google.com/ The MSN site is
> > another Microsoft "Me Too" entry into world mapping.
> >
> > 73 de Bob - K?RC in MN
> >
> >
> > Message: 6
> > Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 05:27:23 +0000
> > From: ersmar@comcast.net
> > Subject: [TowerTalk] Interesting URL
> > To: towertalk@contesting.com
> > Message-ID:
> >
>
> <100420060527.23669.4523463B000AC74600005C7522064246139D0E039C9D0A@comcast.net>
> >
> >
> > TT:
> >
> > I found this URL http://local.live.com on
> > this evening's ARRL Contest Rate Sheet. If you plug
> > in my address (below) you'll see an initial aerial
> > view of my house, including the Trylon tower,
> > Bencher Skyhawk and D40 dipole antennas. My shack
> > window is on the ground floor to the right of the
> > back of the house. The large oak tree to the right
> > of the house is the anchor for my erstwhile inverted
> > L antenna.
> >
> > Other views, invoked by clicking on the
> > compass icon, even show the large concrete base for
> > the tower.
> >
> > Cool - but scary that such views are available.
> >
> >
> > 73 de
> > Gene Smar AD3F
> > 16900 Governors Way
> > Rockville, MD 20853
> >
> > P.S The pushpin showing my house's location on the
> > map is actually in the middle of the street in front
> > of my house.
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