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The invisible restaurant on Google Earth

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OBIO

Retired SOH Admin
I was just on Google Earth...site seeing basically. Swung by my house...only to find that there is a new restaurant 334 feet from my house. I looked out the window and I could not see the restaurant....though there was nothing blocking my view other than the slimy dog nose prints on the living room picture window. How cool is that....an invisible restaurant! Wonder if I can get away with paying my bill with invisible money?

OBIO
 
The latest version of Google Earth pood the Scrooch on a lot of things OBIO. They replaced newer images with older images and I expect that's what happened in your case. I went to Greensboro, NC abnd they have the old downtown complete without the fancy new baseball park. Go to the time line and one sees the photo is from 2002, back to time line to 2007 and boom, there's the ballpark.

Google got too big too fast and rumor is that Apple may part ways with them.

But I do love Google Earth, not so for Chrome, still prefer Firefox.

HD, you have to check Street View and then go to your residence. If a camera is shown there, you have street view, click it and navigate around.

Caz
 
Helldiver, the Google satellite ran out of film early on for the "out of the way" places, so no closeups. Same for where we used to live up North in NY. We weren't important enough to have that feature. ;) Even tho our backyard was a crossing for illegals into the US.

Down here in DE we have the closeups so they can keep track of us and up our property taxes. LOL
 
Helldiver said:
How do you guys get pictures of your houses on Google Earth? All I get is tops of houses.
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Some folks use Google Maps new feature, "Street View".
I think some of that data is finding its way into Google Earth, but not in my area yet.
The only way I found the side pictures of my house was using "Street View" on Google Maps.

I think this YouTube video Google made explains how to use "Street View" on Google Maps, way better than I could here:

[YOUTUBE]f0y-q-pI2pQ[/YOUTUBE]
 
GT182 said:
Down here in DE we have the closeups so they can keep track of us and up our property taxes. LOL
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now, now... your taxes there are alot more...sane... than many other places.
such as a 10 minute trip over the del mem br, or a 20 minute trip down rte 40. both states have outrageous taxes in comparison :wavey:
 
Cazzie said:
The latest version of Google Earth pood the Scrooch on a lot of things OBIO. They replaced newer images with older images and I expect that's what happened in your case. I went to Greensboro, NC abnd they have the old downtown complete without the fancy new baseball park. Go to the time line and one sees the photo is from 2002, back to time line to 2007 and boom, there's the ballpark.

Google got too big too fast and rumor is that Apple may part ways with them.

But I do love Google Earth, not so for Chrome, still prefer Firefox.

HD, you have to check Street View and then go to your residence. If a camera is shown there, you have street view, click it and navigate around.

Caz
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Yep, last weekend we went to Florida for a family get together. Being the planner that I am, I used Google Maps and their satellite images to find the hotel. I was surprised to see that the hotel was a vacant lot. In fact, there was nothing but vacant lots with names of businesses attached to them. The hotel has actually been on that site for a few years, as have the businesses, but the Google image is several years old.
 
Where Google Earth shows the restaurant to be is an open field owned by our land lord..he has owned this 25 acre chunk of land for 50 some years....there has never been a restaurant there....have no idea where Google got the info that there was a restaurant there, but they really need to double check their info.

OBIO
 
For years Google Earth only showed the fuzzy map-image for my area.

Now, they have replaced it with super-duper detailed photo imagery -all taken in 1999 !

Weird, as there is much more up-to-date stuff on our 192.com maps.
 
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