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Austin Scott Davis (Zimtok)
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Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 - 9:08 am:   

I recently checked in on Google Earth and found they had updated the overhead view of my house...
You can clearly see my bus in the driveway and my new shop in the back yard.

This had to be taken within the last few months.




.overhead view of my house
Paul Lawry (Dreamscape)
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Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 - 9:12 am:   

The date the photo was taken should be shown in the lower left corner of the shot.

Last time ours was visible was a couple of years ago, and we've moved since then.

Nice compound you have there!

Paul

PS I really like your coach, very sweet!
Bruce Henderson (Oonrahnjay)
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Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 - 9:52 am:   

Yes, nice red coach. Is that a trailer (upper left) next to the house? (I assume that the building in the upper left is your house and the structure in the center is your shop -- or are you married????)
Dave Walker (Chrome_dome)
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Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 - 11:00 am:   

Your Lawn needs watering and mowing!
Don Evans (Doninwa)
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Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 - 11:56 am:   

When I look up our home address on Google, the street view shows both of my sister's RVs in the back yard. Only happened once that they were both here at the same time, for our sons graduation.

Don 4107
marvin pack (Gomer)
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Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 - 1:38 pm:   

Chrome Dome! They just got all the snow and stuff cleared up and waiting for the stuff to reseed. Ya know he lives in Tenn.? If your are the nice person that WE think you are, I think that you should drive over and help him since you are a couple of day away LOL LOL

Austin Good job man !!!!

Gomer
John MC9 (John_mc9)
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Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 - 9:13 pm:   

If that someone peeing behind your shed?

Eeewww
john w. roan (Chessie4905)
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Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 - 9:37 pm:   

John must be visiting....Keep him away from your wheels.
Dave Walker (Chrome_dome)
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Posted on Saturday, May 29, 2010 - 1:25 pm:   

Hey Gomer,

I would be more than happy to Although that is a long drive on a lawn mower?

Dave
marvin pack (Gomer)
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Posted on Saturday, May 29, 2010 - 3:16 pm:   

LOL

gomer
Austin Scott Davis (Zimtok)
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Posted on Saturday, May 29, 2010 - 4:37 pm:   

The structure in the upper left is my shop with the trailer next to it...

I'm not married (never been) My son is the only one living with me at this time.

You can just make out the motorcycle in the front of the house.

It's probably my dog peeing behind the shed....





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Bruce Henderson (Oonrahnjay)
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Posted on Saturday, May 29, 2010 - 9:12 pm:   

Yeah, the little structure in my GE photo is the house; the big one is garage/shop. Wimmins don't get impressed.
John MC9 (John_mc9)
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Posted on Saturday, May 29, 2010 - 9:15 pm:   

Your dog stands on his hind legs to pee?
john w. roan (Chessie4905)
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Posted on Saturday, May 29, 2010 - 10:37 pm:   

recheck the site in two weeks. " John MC9 " will be plainly visible spelled out in dead grass.
clint hunter (Truthhunter)
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Posted on Monday, May 31, 2010 - 11:04 pm:   

...plant buses, let the grass seed itself. Looks as if you need another bus for that big driveway.
Austin Scott Davis (Zimtok)
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Posted on Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - 9:23 am:   

Clint,
My neighbors (well at least one) is already complaining about the one bus. the last thing I need is a second bus....

John,
My dog is a female so she squats to do her business....
I guess you caught me.... but I'm not peeing....



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(Message edited by zimtok on June 01, 2010)
Jim Wilke (Jim Bob) (Pd41044039)
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Posted on Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - 10:38 am:   

Austin, how did you get such a clear and small picture to post? If I zoom in closer tha about 4000 ft, it goes all grainy.
And how do you select a square to cut or copy? I do not see such controls on G E.
John & Barb Tesser (Bigrigger)
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Posted on Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - 1:50 pm:   

Jim, not all areas are available in the "close up" neighborhood view. I can look at towns 60 miles from me, but in the woods where I live they have never done the close up stuff. Good thing too, they would probably make me get rid of 1/2 my junk!

John
Austin Scott Davis (Zimtok)
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Posted on Wednesday, June 02, 2010 - 4:59 pm:   

First I "captured" the window with my PhotoStudio software.

Then I used my PhotoStudio software to crop down to just my house.
Then I re-sized it to allow it to be uploaded to this forum.
John & Barb Tesser (Bigrigger)
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Posted on Wednesday, June 02, 2010 - 5:31 pm:   

Nice job, it has to be a very high resolution sattelite to allow that much enlargement and manipulation. It's almost scary how much they can see.

John
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Posted on Wednesday, June 02, 2010 - 8:25 pm:   

No more skinny-dipping, uncle is watching!
Paul Lawry (Dreamscape)
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Posted on Wednesday, June 02, 2010 - 10:01 pm:   

You can also use Snipping Tool, it came with my MS Vista Business. It works slick, cropped or full page. It has the editing feature built in. Drag the crosshairs and save as.

(Message edited by dreamscape on June 02, 2010)
ED Hackenbruch (Shadowman)
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Posted on Thursday, June 03, 2010 - 8:53 am:   

John, they are able to read the headlines on a newspaper if they want to. They limit how much we can see.
Bruce Henderson (Oonrahnjay)
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Posted on Thursday, June 03, 2010 - 12:24 pm:   

Paul Lawry wrote "You can also use Snipping Tool, it came with my MS Vista Business."

Also for Windows (any I've ever used but I'm not a computer guru), you can open "Paint" under "Accessories", then go to your browser (or anything, like a photo viewer), hold down the "Fn" or "Function" key and press the "Prt Scrn" key. Go back to "Paint" and hit "Crtl/V" and it will paste into Paint. It will include margins, toolbars etc. but those are easy to edit out/off. Then you can save the photo itself or any part of it under many different photo/graphic file types. (Of course, for Google Earth, you'll need to set the photo where you want it, zoom in or out, etc.)

All this is included in Windows, no extra software packages to buy, install, download, etc.

This also works for other things. Say I want a photo of a brake valve. I go to the website for the manufacturer. I could hit "Save File" but that would give me a big PDF file; if I only want the photo, I just do the Fn/PrtScrn keys and copy the "clipboard" via Cntl/V to Paint. Then I edit the photo and save it, copy it to word processing file or whatever.

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