I clicked on satelite and all I get is bad links (red x's)?

ditto over here...

- marissa

go to maps.google.com and in the top right corner click on the Satellite link.

I was over at a friend's house last night and used his computer to check my e-mail. He then MADE ME look at my house using the google map or whatever. I thought it was funny.

There are. They've been around for years. I think the USGS might have the feature on their site.

it's not quite exactly. i entered my parents address and it gives an arial view of the neighborhood but they seem to think my parents house is a couple hundred yards up the street and on the opposite side. It also didn't get that close. I've seen closer pics.

It doesn't find my apartment building very well at all either! But then again, my apartment is about 4 years old

Exculty what I was going to say. NJ's Dept of Environmental Protection has a program called I-Map that does the same thing. All this stuff is basically GIS techology broken down- alot. With the right GIS program, you could get the same output, but add your own identifiers.

The shots of San Antonio were taken before or about March of 2004.

The parking lots on campus that were closed to construction (and are now) were still open. The new dorms that opened in August are only half done (construction took about a year). and the grass on the ground looks dead/or dried up anytime between September/February. My best guess is Feb 04.

We've lived in our current house about 2 1/2 years, but the satellite photo shows it as an empty lot. Guess the database is a little dated.

As for it being a little off, I checked several locations and it appears to me that the "arrow" generally points to a place in the street where the address begins -- as oppossed to the house itself. That makes some sense to me. Things don't line up perfectly in real life.

kinda freaky...but cool
 

Same here, preciousjeni. I looked up my old building from when I used to live in NYC and all I got were building tops. But it is still pretty cool, though.

You do get some killer views of Kennedy Space Center on there. I was pretty surprised, because I figured it would be blacked out like I've seen of some satellite photos of gov't installations or airports.

:( It couldn't zoom in any..