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I passed a google earth car on HW 54 in Kansas this year, so if you see a gray super duty, it is me.
 

That's cool. I panned over to Texas with that map and zoomed on on our place, but it was old data. About 4 yrs. looks like. When I zoom out it will say Data 2012. But zoom in and its old.
 
Already doing it. Our county uses Google earth and other aerial photography for building code enforcement. They overlay aerial and satellite photos over their GIS database to see if you've built a new building too close to a wetland, etc.
 
Apparently I have! I wasn't combining beans that day, but was busy in the shop. I did notice that in a city, you can't zoom in as far as you can as say over my farm. Possible litigation? More rights for others?
 
No,but there's sure a lot of round bales in the fields in the shot of my places and the ones I rent.
 
Had a good laugh, told my wife her "boyfriend" better not be visiting while I was out of state. Next round of Google Earth updates were shot the DAY I left town and of course show my car gone. LOL told her I really had some pull at Google.
Seriously though, local county using these and other photos to snoop on private property. Burns my @ss that people are paid to set at a desk
and invade MY privacy.
 
I don't know how you found your place. I just pulled the site up and it says Colorado don't even exist. Tried the site several months back and it wouldn't work either. Guess it don't like me.
 
(quoted from post at 19:48:39 11/19/12) Had a good laugh, told my wife her "boyfriend" better not be visiting while I was out of state. Next round of Google Earth updates were shot the DAY I left town and of course show my car gone. LOL told her I really had some pull at Google.
Seriously though, local county using these and other photos to snoop on private property. Burns my @ss that people are paid to set at a desk
and invade MY privacy.
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These photo's are updated daily for those in the "know", we don't qualify. If you are out there building, they know.
 

Certain areas are updated more frequently than yours apparently. I am pretty sure it has to deal with National Security and Crime Rates. You must live in a "safe area".
 
yes

If you go to 40 39 10 N 80 20 6 W on google earth that will be over our farm. Use the time function and go back to 7/2/2010 and zoom in. I'm running the baler and above that in another field my friend is raking. Let me know if this works.
Phil
 
I had a program from Southwest Wind Energy, like that. I could pick a spot on your property around 22501 Prospect RD, pinpoint it, key in a residential wind turbine model and tower heidth and then predict how many KWHs of electricity the unit would produce anually on that spot. Could then move it to an alternative location, and get another prediction from that site. Many people looked at me cross eyed when I told them that they had a poor site, arguing that the wind always blew there. I would reply by saying "not hard enough, enough of the time." to pay back in a reasonable time frame. I could have sold many more units if I took their word about how hard the wind blew at their place. I'm retired now with no unhappy customers.
Loren the Acg.
 
(quoted from post at 20:05:53 11/19/12) I tried to smack talk Google using Google Chrome. It didn't work. Google is Orwellian.
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I am surprised this posted. When I'm gone, remember me! :wink:
 
If you go to Google, and type in "39 degrees,37' 18.64"N / 76 degrees, 28' 09.87" W", and get your cursor on that spot, that's me on the 806 raking hay about three years ago. It hasn't been updated recently. My main farm is just to the east through the woods about a quarter of a mile or so.
 
Went right to it for me. I can get mine down close enough you can see a bush hog plain enough to know what it is. Ours was updated one day this past summer under good conditions. The county does use it here to check taxes on new buildings.
Hard to hid anything now days.
 
Satellite picture taken fall 2010 while I was harvesting carrots. Harvester with JD 8300T pulling dolly with semi trailer. Looks to be about half loaded.
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Hey Loren!

That sounds like a pretty useful piece of software. Is that a propriatory program from your former employer or could the software be purchaced?

I am in northern New York and am not an eco-freak.

I just like the idea of some level of self- sufficiency in this day, age and political climate.

Brad
 
The newest one from 2012 has me worried. I know they know much more about me than I can imagine. I am worried about where I was? Sort of in a where's Waldo situation! I have looked in the obvious spots but I wasn't there. Where was I? My car sits outside in the summer. I was somewhere and have to find myself. Once I do, I will be afraid of what everyone else can know about me if I found myself... :twisted: :shock:
 
History repeats itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XnMMiDUqi4

This was before my time, but I can see it happening again. It was the OP's original post that made me think of this.
 
When I gotta loan to pay for NEW shake roof, the bank googled my house and the resolution was good enuff to see the 3-sheepies in the pasture behind the house ........Dell
 
Dell, I got a path made from 16 inch diameter stepping stones from the house to the greenhouse. You can easily make out the individual stones in Google Maps. Amazing resolution for a free service.
 
I was looking at google maps and went to satellite view of my house. next I went to street view. as I scrolled around I saw myself following the Google camera car, and setting up to back into the driveway.
Tim in OR
 
414 Pleasant drive with the red carpet in front of the end of that garage shed 9Same side as house ) and the main barn across the road ?
 
With street view I can look in my front yard and see every detail of
the house and yard. Move on down the road to the neighbors house
and zoom in on the front deck and the neighbor is sitting out
there. Best keep the window shades pulled down.
 
It's actually 405 but yes that is it. Sort of scary what someone can find outabout you. There have been lawsuits against Googleover it.
Phil
 
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