My childhood home on google maps

June 3, 2006 at 5:41 pm · Filed under reflections, quikmaps

I’ve been playing with google maps ever since september, and I’ve always been surprised at the level of detail available in the satellite imagery of my parents’ farm. They’re not in the middle of nowhere, but I don’t think Alhambra, Alberta, Canada has much political or military significance!

If you drag the map a little to see the field to the north of the farm yard, and zoom in close, you can actually see cows in the field.

I’ve used quikmaps to doodle up the map — this is the first blog entry containing a map from quikmaps, as I’ve not yet released it to the general public. There’s still a few bugs in the iframe size generation…

4 Comments »

  1. Is said,

    June 27, 2006 @ 8:26 am

    VERY COOL. thanks!

  2. Jean Roberts said,

    July 14, 2006 @ 9:05 am

    WOW-Best I have seen yet.

  3. sarchi said,

    July 31, 2006 @ 3:42 am

    hi I’m presently making some amendments to my satellite map set

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarchi/sets/72057594075702690/

    here is my post which is still being adopted

    http://watchinmewatchinu.blogspot.com/2006/07/category-maps-geotagging-flickr-photos.html

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