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Sydney/Wollongong
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October 2003
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 Look, I can see my house
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Tue, 21 June 2005 14:42
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Alright so I ripped this straight off the Whirlpool forums.
Anyway in case anyone missed it Google maps now has some decent satellite images of Australia, mainly the capital cities so far. Just go the site & put in Sydney, Australia or wherever you're located...
Feel free to post up your city or suburb, this is my house  If you travel straight east you can see the airport.
Also if you want to see some decent sights check out Google sightseeing 
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Gawler, SA
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August 2003
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Tue, 21 June 2005 14:56
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Tried mine but they cover so little of Adelaide that my house being ~40kms out makes it available only on about 4 from max zoom. Its like a pixel in size so not much to look at.
Tried the NASA World Wind software which is free and got my house large enough to actually identify. Seems better than google maps.
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Location:
Sydney/Wollongong
Registered:
October 2003
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Location:
Gawler, SA
Registered:
August 2003
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Tue, 21 June 2005 15:11
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Whirlwind was something like that yeh. The detail of America is very impressive in that program. You can zoom in far enough to see people and cars on the road. Australia doesnt get that sort of detail unfornately but its good enough to see buildings.
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Location:
Brisbane
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February 2003
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Location:
Sydney/Wollongong
Registered:
October 2003
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Tue, 21 June 2005 15:22
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Followed your picture, is that the Gabba I see?
Was looking at my picture again and i'm pretty sure I can see my car parked where I used to leave it 
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I Supported Toymods
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Lwr Templestowe, Melbourne
Registered:
August 2004
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Tue, 21 June 2005 15:27
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Melbourne doesn't seem to work 
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Location:
Brisbane
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February 2003
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Tue, 21 June 2005 15:32
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| Conquest wrote on Wed, 22 June 2005 01:22 |
Followed your picture, is that the Gabba I see?
Was looking at my picture again and i'm pretty sure I can see my car parked where I used to leave it
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yup - that's the gabba
must be an old pic as they've completed the ring of the new stadium around the field.
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Location:
Sydney/Wollongong
Registered:
October 2003
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Tue, 21 June 2005 15:39
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| Yian wrote on Wed, 22 June 2005 01:27 |
Melbourne doesn't seem to work
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Some of it does but it's strange that the CBD is blurry  Out towards Geelong it's quite clear.
Anyway here's the MCG to use as a starting point.
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Location:
Sydney
Registered:
October 2003
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Location:
Sydney/Wollongong
Registered:
October 2003
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Tue, 21 June 2005 15:52
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| davedave wrote on Wed, 22 June 2005 01:45 |
That rocks!!!!
Trees pretty much block the house though, but I'm in the middle there somewhere 
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In that picture I can see both my girlfriends house and my uncles house 
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Location:
Sydney
Registered:
October 2003
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Tue, 21 June 2005 15:57
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The zoomed right in pic?
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Location:
Sydney/Wollongong
Registered:
October 2003
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I Supported Toymods
Location:
Lwr Templestowe, Melbourne
Registered:
August 2004
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Tue, 21 June 2005 16:40
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Took me ages to find the closest main road to me. Melbourne's suburbs seem to be really blurry...
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Location:
Brisbane
Registered:
October 2004
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Wed, 22 June 2005 00:00
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melbourne weather sucks... that's why...
i've gone from my house in brisbane. to our farm, almost an hr away... going to my mates place 1.5hrs away...
lol... this is sooo cool... it's scary 
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Location:
Campbelltown
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November 2003
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Wed, 22 June 2005 00:37
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they seem to have missed campbelltown. I think i was following the m5/hum highway towards campbelltown cos saw the track where they have the RC cars running round at moorebank and the road tolls, moving backwards from that point and getting close to cambo then it say we have no images of this area.
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Location:
Campbelltown
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November 2003
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Location:
Sydney NSW
Registered:
July 2004
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Wed, 22 June 2005 00:44
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Try zooming out, they have images of further out, just lower res.
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Location:
Melbourne
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June 2004
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Location:
Outer Sth East burbs, VIC
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July 2004
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Wed, 22 June 2005 01:41
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My House
My house is the one with the green little dots in the paddocks. They are silage. Thats right kids, although i live 50km out of melb its fairly country.
You can even see my mates little autox track in the paddock just up the road
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I supported Toymods
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I renounced punctuation
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May 2002
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Wed, 22 June 2005 02:45
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The pics of my part of Melbourne are at least 3 years old and probably more. The roofline of my house is that of the house before we knocked it over and there are no cars in the backyard, making it a pic that is over 6 years old. Nevertheless, pretty neat.
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Location:
Thornlie (Perth)
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May 2005
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Wed, 22 June 2005 05:38
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those maps aren't very good! theres a site on the net somewhere that you can actually zoom rite in to your house and see your dog out the back, i think they were updated every couple hours or something, i used to look at them all the time when i was at tafe
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Location:
Brisbane
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May 2004
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Wed, 22 June 2005 06:56
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lol http://maps.google.com/maps?q=brisbane,+australia& amp;ll=-27.386856,152.783958&spn=0.005021,0.00 7918&t=k&hl=en my house
It took a while to find but my place is in the upper and right hand side of that map, with the pool. Follow that awesome windy road back to civilisation (south and west), thats how far I drive to get to the shops haha. It's called Mt Nebo Road if any of you know it, awesome drive!
also n00b question, but how do you name you urls, so they say "my house" instead of the actual adress?
[Updated on: Wed, 22 June 2005 07:19]
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Location:
NSW Engadine
Registered:
June 2003
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Wed, 22 June 2005 07:30
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Hahaha thats awesome... Theres all cars on my front lawn, cant tell what but...
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Location:
outer easter melbourne
Registered:
September 2004
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Wed, 22 June 2005 07:54
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nice work with the pic of the Holden proving grounds
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Location:
Canberra
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May 2002
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Wed, 22 June 2005 07:55
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I can't find Canberra
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Location:
Sydney
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April 2004
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Wed, 22 June 2005 09:01
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Fukkn can only see blank boxes with the little cross in the top left hand corner fuck you dial up 
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Location:
Kita-Ku, Sapporo, Japan
Registered:
January 2003
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Location:
Coffs Harbour, NSW
Registered:
November 2004
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Location:
Sydney/Wollongong
Registered:
October 2003
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Wed, 22 June 2005 10:53
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| Malicia wrote on Wed, 22 June 2005 17:55 |
I can't find Canberra
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Here's Canberra. Make sure you select the satellite option 
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Location:
Canberra
Registered:
May 2002
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Location:
Potts Point, Sydney
Registered:
October 2003
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Location:
Somewhere on a dirt bowl ...
Registered:
August 2004
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Wed, 22 June 2005 13:47
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You almost got it except for [/url] its in the wrong spot.
[ url=http://www.blah.blah.blah] <-close off the opening url [/url ]
Easy way is to have a look at someones quote and see how they did it.
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Location:
Somewhere on a dirt bowl ...
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August 2004
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Wed, 22 June 2005 13:53
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After a few minutes seaching for bloody noosa which was a nice crisp pic then i moved map to the west a little for my place and all went to mush. Apart from the forest fire that we had months back. I knew it was big, but
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Location:
Kellyville, Sydney
Registered:
June 2004
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Location:
Melbourne, South East
Registered:
May 2004
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Wed, 22 June 2005 16:23
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Can anyone find rowville
is there any S.E suburbs of melbourne showing? i cant identify anything, everything looks the same to me and i dont know any good landmarks around me
btw, some of these big roads seem pretty pointless, looks like a one way street that ends a few km's down the road, forcing u to make a uie.
Cheers
Choony
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Location:
Melbourne Victoria
Registered:
December 2003
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Wed, 22 June 2005 16:57
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when is sim city gonna look like that?
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I supported Toymods
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I renounced punctuation
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Thu, 23 June 2005 01:08
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For fun I did a search of some important political sites in the USA. The White House has its roof (and that of surrounding buildings) blocked out and the Capitol is blurred so no detail can be made out. The damage to the Pentagon can be seen. The Twin Towers pit is also clearly seen.
It would be interesting to know if strategically important nuclear power plants have been blurred out.
You can clearly see people in Tiananmen Square.
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Location:
Canberra
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Thu, 23 June 2005 05:13
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I wonder if anyone can find the "Terrorist Training Camps" that are in out back vic currently all over the news.....
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Location:
melbourne
Registered:
February 2005
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Thu, 23 June 2005 06:03
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looks like ur out in the stix... i couldnt figure out where my place is coz u cant zoom in on it....
i tried to find my place but couldnt find ne main roads... couldnt work em out
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Location:
Melbourne
Registered:
June 2004
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Location:
Campbelltown
Registered:
November 2003
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Re: Look, I can see my house
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Thu, 23 June 2005 07:50
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| skellator wrote on Wed, 22 June 2005 20:50 |
here's the closest thing to a racetrack near me that you can see on these maps:
coffs gokart track!
raleigh raceway (also gokarts, plus bikes etc, no cars) isnt on the good bits of the map
oh, neither is my house
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hasn't the coffs one been closed down for a couple of years now, raleigh is supposed to rock i am yet to go on there yet, i know most of this shit cos we holday'd up in urunga for like 13 years
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