My Trailers on Mapquest

[robfisher]

While playing around with mapquest I found that my Tourette and Robinhood trailers can be seen in their pictures of my address. They are small and you have to know what you are looking at but there they are sure enough.

[Micro469]

O.K., so what's your address? Let's have a looksee....

[angib]

My city has just got new satellite photo coverage in Google Earth and you can see the washing line* zig-zagging across my tiny back yard! From a satellite! And this isn't even defence-quality imagery!

For the record, I've just gone and measured the washing line - it's 4.8mm or 3/16" diameter and it's shiny white. But even so, how can that be photographed from space?

If you copy and paste this exact lat/long string into the search box, you can see the line too:
55 00'17.31"N, 1 37'33.93"W
(And yes, we do live squeezed into our country like rats in a maze.)

Andrew

*Does washing line work in the US? The line you hang your clothes on to dry.

[Joseph]

*Does washing line work in the US? The line you hang your clothes on to dry.

We call it a clothes line, but yes, it works fine. Well, except in the Pacific northwest, where it never stops raining!

Joseph

[Greg M]

Actually, here in the Pacific Northwest we do call it a washing line because that's where we hang our clothes when we want them washed. Spray a little liquid detergent on, and the rain does the rest.

-Greg

*Does washing line work in the US? The line you hang your clothes on to dry.

We call it a clothes line, but yes, it works fine. Well, except in the Pacific northwest, where it never stops raining!

Joseph

[Micro469]

I just checked out my address. That picture is about two years old... My neighbor doesn't have that white van anymore, and the huge tree in my backyard was cut down two summers ago. Also, it missed my house by five houses.....

[Ma3tt]

Our city does a aerial map every other year. I know exactly what day and time this was because we had just returned from a camping trip.


They are flying it in March this year I am going to paint something funny on my roof to freak out the map reviewers at the city, I am thinking a giant fly, or an eyeball looking back at them

[PaulC]

Ma3tt, The eyeball sounds great to me or maybe the phone number of the local bar. Every time someone sees it they'll probably ring the number to see who it is.......................................................................




Maybe that's not such a good idea

Cheers
Paul

[Miriam C.]

Hey Matt,
You could put Ira'a phone number and former Avatar on there.

[Denny Unfried]

My teardrop isn't in the pic but my circle driveway down at the bottom is in the shape of a teardrop.

[grant whipp]

Ya know ...

... there's a certain novelty in going to a website and peeking in on your own back/front/side yard(s) - "Hey, lookie, Ma ... they musta took that Saturday 'cause there's my Friday shorts hangin' on ta line ..." - but I gotta tell ya that I'm not the least bit comfortable knowing that anybody with a computer and my address can have a look-see there, too ... ... ...!

It's bad enough that too many government agencies have that power (and do abuse it, BTW!), but now it's virtually public knowledge, and anybody with an axe to grind (or just wanting to be a PITA) can go poking around in your formerly-private domain to seek out any number of potential violations that were heretofore unseen. (I'm talking about old car collections/projects and the such ... not whether or not you've got a whipping post hidden under the bows of that old willow where you disipline that unruly teenager ... but that's another story, altogether ... ... ...)

The potential for abuse is completely off the wall, here, but nobody really seems to care ... ... ... and I'm just guessing, but perhaps they also feel just too helpless to do anything about it even if they wanted to ...

George Orwell got it right ... he just had the timeline off by a couple of decades ... but I'm willing to bet that even he didn't imagine what's going to be shoved down our throats in the next couple of decades, if we don't start paying attention and growing some bigger private parts in order to take a stand and say enough already is far too much ... ... ...

I've got nothing of any consequence to hide, but please don't come poking 'round my place unless you're invited ...

CHEERS!

Grant

[Nitetimes]

Grant, I agree 100%, this stuff has been scarin' me since I first got on the net in the 90's. It's just gotten worse since. Nothin' sacred anymore. It's just gonna get worse before it gets better.

[Jst83]

It is kinda scary.
Couldn't find satellite views on mapquest, Found this on another site.

My Tear is in the garage. Or this was taken before it was started. Looks like it was taken in the fall.
Scott

[campadk]

Well I must say Ma3tt might win for the most toys

Why not pull the tear with the race car?

Did you notice somebody rearended your 2nd Volvo?

How do you keep your grass so well groomed while out on a camping trip?

If you polish up the tear a bit, you might be able to send back a blind shot to the city reviewers

[asianflava]

None of the mapping websites have a very tight pic of my house. The zoom scale doesn't go to the top 2 positions.