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General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: Dagurasu on May 23, 2006, 05:19:26 PM

Title: You can see my house from here!
Post by: Dagurasu on May 23, 2006, 05:19:26 PM
http://local.live.com/ (http://local.live.com/)

I see Microsoft finally got their ripoff of Google Maps & Mapquest online. Knowing the evil empire's business strategy, they'll claim they invented the idea, then they'll sue the pants off both companies.

Well, at least the resolution of my house is better than Google, in Google it's all a coloful blur. This is a nice sharp b&w blur!
Title: You can see my house from here!
Post by: Evil Monkey-Tom on May 23, 2006, 05:42:40 PM
Eh, google does theirs in color.
Title: You can see my house from here!
Post by: B E C K on May 23, 2006, 05:47:09 PM
Ach!  Sending der atomsprengkopf!
Title: You can see my house from here!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on May 23, 2006, 08:32:09 PM
The highest resolution picture of my area is a map of about 7 miles across.  Lame!

But it finds Janine's house, something Google maps is still incapable of doing.  I mean... I can find it by looking where it is and zooming in but no address search for her street will turn up a result no matter how much I mess with it.

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Total Distance:
158.9 mi
Estimated time:
3 Hours, 22 Minutes
*cries*
Title: You can see my house from here!
Post by: Evil Monkey-Tom on May 23, 2006, 09:44:42 PM
three hours for a 150 miles? Pft, I could do it in twenty minutes.
Title: You can see my house from here!
Post by: Chopper Face 69 on May 23, 2006, 10:48:15 PM
The highway is 80km/h... which is... slow.  Plus I'm in the city for some of the drive. That's ass tastically slow.

I can do it in 3 hours if I speed. Not much less.
Title: You can see my house from here!
Post by: Sam on May 23, 2006, 11:24:42 PM
Tom, apparently, has a rocket shoved up his ass that allows him to go 3/4 the speed of sound.
Title: You can see my house from here!
Post by: Evil Monkey-Tom on May 23, 2006, 11:32:57 PM
...who told?
Title: You can see my house from here!
Post by: Faye Valentine on May 24, 2006, 09:43:25 AM
Last time I looked, they didn't have one for Peru yet:(

Do they have that for Singapore?
Title: You can see my house from here!
Post by: Evil Monkey-Tom on May 24, 2006, 12:54:21 PM
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Last time I looked, they didn't have one for Peru yet:(
*whines due to the easiness*
Title: You can see my house from here!
Post by: Rodent of Unusual Size on May 24, 2006, 01:47:20 PM
Microsoft had Terraserver many years before Google Maps ever came to be.  It looks like it's using the old B/W maps from it, since it has the same view of my house it always did...because there's 80 acres of pastureland around the house where there's been pine plantation the past ten years....

Resolution is for me 150 yards.
Title: You can see my house from here!
Post by: Rama on May 24, 2006, 03:31:55 PM
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Tom, apparently, has a rocket shoved up his ass that allows him to go 3/4 the speed of sound.
He does, but when he put it there he had no idea that it would make him go 3/4 the speed of sound. It was more a happy side effect after the fact.