b.rox

Google Maps recently added two zoom levels to their satellite views, and made other improvements that make it even more fun to fool around with. I immediately took a gander at where I live. Here’s my block in Mid-City New Orleans:

Several observations:

1. I can actually see our back deck
2. The imagery would seem to be pre-Katrina. Happier, cleaner days. More living grass. And I can see the abandoned cars in the neighbor’s driveway, which were hauled away before the storm.
3. The grid in my neighborhood is about 45¬? off the compass points. No wonder we don’t reference North South East West much in the city.
4. Dang, but the houses are packed in tight on our block.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 24th, 2006 at 2:26 pm by Editor B and is filed under Geeky, Our House. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.