Can you find your home on Google Earth?

[scotpens]

Here's the whole West Los Angeles area:

And here's my apartment building:

So, can anyone else find their home, place of work, or just someplace you hang out on Google Earth?

(I fully understand if some of you folks would rather not have the whole world know exactly where you live!)

 

[DonnyBaker]

I can see the general area. But because I dont live in a major Metro area google doesnt provide high enough resolution to actually see it clearly. My image is from January or 2005. 5 Fucking years old...ANd google convienently doesnt provide a way to ask them why they wont do a new better scan...

 

[Mr. B]

Yes, I can read a map and I can find my home on google earth.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I use Hobart Roadmap Australia which is based on Google Maps.

This first pictures show some of the suburbs on both sides of the River Derwent.

My suburb is shown by the red square.

I won't show my current house but I will show the childhood homes.

The red arrow points to the house I lived in for the first 7 years of my life. The blue arrow points to the beach at which Errol Flynn learnt to swim. Orginally called Short Beach it is now known as the Errol Flynn Reserve.

A closer view of my home above

I lived in the house shown by the blue arrow. My grandfather owned the other cojoined house and rented it out to the Webbs who had two sons younger than me. These homes, and the two houses circled were built by my grandfather, who was a builder, for his mother. My cousins (second cousins) lived in one of the other houses. My grandfather also built the large shed shown in the photo. The yellow arrow shows the laneway in which we and our cousins safely played.

This last photo show the house I lived in between 7 and 18.

The blue arrow is my house and the red arrow points to a house (10 Darcy St) that Errol Flynn lived in as a child. He lived there for about 2 years. When I lived in the street a family called Ford lived at 10 Darcy St.

EDITED TO ADD: Because of my poor photo editing skills the arrow is actually pointing more to number 12 then number 10.

 

[Canadave]

I'll play. First, here's Ottawa-Gatineau, the city which I call home:

And this is where I live, with a thin veneer of anonymity thanks to the lack of street names.

Here's where I work:

And here's where I used to work (the complex takes up the entire picture). Anyone who can guess what this might be wins a virtual cookie.

 

[Peach Wookiee]

I've found mine, even with my cute car parked out front. ^^

 

[Nociod]

Funny that you should bring this topic up.

I've been playing more and more with Google Earth during the last weeks, and tried finding my own house, relatives house, school etc.

But to answer your question, yes, i can see my own house on Google Earth, but I'm having trouble finding my aunts and uncles that live outside the city.

But the reason I've been playing on Google Earth has been the new "Street View" which the google car has driven on the roads taking pictures.

Can you see your house on that?

I can see parts of my house, but since it's not directly besides the road, you can't get a goog view of it.

I won't post pictures though, Norway is a small country and I've already given out enough info to make it easy for someone to play detective to find me

 

[SPOCKED]

My house is in that little red circle

The zoom image doesn't show the house since it's buried in thick trees. We live on a private, dirt road at the top of a hill in the woods and between ponds here in Plymouth, Ma.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Not only mine, but I can also find several other people's homes on Google Earth.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Yes i can , and my car.

 

[Chaos Descending]

Yes.

 

[Michael Chris]

Most definitely I can.

 

[abaldwin360]

I live in a townhouse, the arrow is pointing right about where my back porch is.

 

[Rii]

According to Google Earth there are people on top of my house.

 

[Rincewiend]

The city of Wageningen, near the Rhine:



I was born and lived until i was 10 in the houses in the red square, then moved the houses in the blue square:



And about 5 years ago i moved to the appartment building in the blue square:

 

[RandyS]

Yes I can find my house.

Can you??

 

[Emher]

Northeast of Stockholm, Sweden...

...at the beginning of the Swedish East Coast archipelago...

...there lies the city of Norrtälje...

...and there I dwell...

Incidentally in the second to last pic, that's pretty much the entire city. And the last pic also includes the local beehive of activity, the supermarket, down in the corner. With the cemetery down in the middle. How's that for contrasts?

 

[Shaytan]

I can but I won't show you exactly

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Yes i can and it creeps the shit out of me. Big Brother is definitely watching!

I can actually zoom in to my son's house in Va, get a view of it from the street and look up and down his street. Now that is some scary-ass technology!

 

[Lookingglassman]

How old are the photographs on google earth? I found my home and was able do the zoom down the street thing, but it still shows a tree in front of my house that was cut down 6 months ago.