A few weeks ago goole has released a stunning 3D map service program.
It’s free and it shows up to the size of a car, though in many places the resolution might be coarser.
We could share our locations and ‘see’ where each other lives on the google earth and it will make us feel closer to each other. What do you think?
My place is
37°24’08.54" N 126°55’29.20" E
Unfortunately the download time is prohibiting for me.
No mac version yet. 
But I’ve seen it on my girlfriend’s computer; it truly is magnificent.
I’m not sure if I should feel my usual paranoia (‘Stop looking at me, especially from space!’), or if this is a good thing… 
But I’ve looked at it and it is awe inspiring, grandiose, tack on the adjectives for the ineffable.
Yes - we were very 'busy" at work the other day finding each other’s houses - it’s so addictive! I’ll have to get the exact location again and write it down for this post. We couldn’t really see much detail, but we could count the number of houses from the end of the street to find our own. However we could see cars in the local shopping centre car park. It must be fascinating seeing the very detailed maps that the military use. I guess we’ll never get to see them!
oh yes ive heard about this. it’s very good. i like how it can fly you over the roads for directions
that’s insane: the area where i work is in perfect detail, crazy: fyi the commercial/legal district of sydney is just across the park from the location labelled by google earth as “russell crowe’s house” 
A good map is useful in various ways. We could share our information about nice bookshops with classical works or make appointments when we travel abroad, or travel over the ruins of ancient cities, etc.
If you save your placemark as a kml file you can share it in the form we can gather in a single placemark file. For example my place looks like this in a kml file. You can identify the tag.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0">
<Placemark>
<name>mingshey's home is here</name>
<LookAt>
<longitude>126.9243875094075</longitude>
<latitude>37.40237537967146</latitude>
<range>594.0075795141709</range>
<tilt>-2.08079473664764e-010</tilt>
<heading>17.48130970651882</heading>
</LookAt>
<styleUrl>root://styleMaps#default+nicon=0x307+hicon=0x317</styleUrl>
<Point>
<coordinates>126.9247394172101,37.40250129666962,0</coordinates>
</Point>
</Placemark>
</kml>
Wow, that is great. I didn’t even know my neighbors had a pool!
my coordinates:
n 61
w 149
It’s a shame that most of Europe is low-resolution.
i wouldn’t be surprised if we all start including our satellite co-ordinates when giving out our address details &c.
you know how perseus has a ‘map locations’ function, if someone could do that with google earth that would be cool, e.g. herodotus or thucydides or the odyssey or the iliad book 2 catalogue: texts that have lots of locations in them, and which people have written books on showing the modern city names and locations for these ancient cities
Yep, our house is a vague black blob…
Ingrid
My house too. I visited your location and it seems to be in the middle of the mountain ridges of Alaska, near Anchorage. And it seems you must have a great view.
If you meant a place in the city of Anchorage the houses look very clear so you could locate a cat on the roof if there was one.
They have an overview of which place is how much detailed:
http://earth.google.com/data.html
That would be very, very cool. Easier to track would be Roman locations — I believe Ovid’s and Virgil’s houses are easily located. But until they make a mac version, I have no vested interest in helping to bring that about.
I have now re-located my home - it’s 34"54’46.42S , 138"39’08.33E
But I’m not sure how to find an address from the co-ordinates - maybe I’ll have to read the “Help” file - Oh No!
Later … yes, I did that and found Mingshey’s place - it looks so beautiful, all those little bays and harbours. It’s not as detailed as the map of my place, I presume those lighter areas are all residential areas?
It’s so sad… At least I could find my brother’s house, very detailed, in Madrid, but my house here cannot be seen (not even the block).
The coordinates would be aproximately this: 5° 52’ 30" N, 62° 33’ 22" W
And here you will find the Auyan Tepuy 5° 52’ 30" N, 62° 33’ 22" W
It’s a very old mountain. Look it at a 26 mi height. Maybe if you look carefully you will see Angel’s Fall (if the clouds aren’t over it anyway)
It’s in the city.
it’s amazing, you can even see inside my old uni college quads, 33° 54’ 59.10" S, 151° 13’ 54.75" E (tiled brown roof, boys quad with the trees, girls quad without, although the names are historical only) which the average uni student can’t access unless they live there… we used to climb up onto the roof at night with vodka, very irresponsible.
Yes, I see what you mean about the lack of detail in some parts - all that part of South America is only about the same as a you would see on an airline.
There is so much green - have a look at the interior of Australia for a complete contrast! And many parts were obviously taken after some heavy rain because a lot of the inland lakes are full, so imagine what it is like in a drought!
Chad - all I get is trees!